Sketchbook 1
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2000-2005
Artist: Susan Aldworth
Dimensions:
Sketchbook: 125 × 185 mm (12.5 × 18.5 cm)
drawings: 112 × 152 mm (11.2 × 15.2 cm)
Medium: Paper, ink, watercolour, pencil
Object number: F.2023.1176.CC.1-8
DescriptionSketchbook (The Langton watercolour book) and 7 loose drawings:
This contains some of the hundreds of drawings that Aldworth made on location at the Royal London Hospital from 2000-2005. Aldworth had to work fast as she observed the brain scans in real time. She decided to use colour as a shorthand to emphasise that the patient on the operating table was a person and not an object, and that they were often in extremis having had a stroke or a tumour. Colour describes this emotional attachment to her subject matter. The Brainscape suite of 30 etching and aquatints were based on these drawings. Read more in the catalogue: “Scribing the Soul”
.1 ringbound sketchbook with watercolour and pencil drawings
.2 watercolour and pencil drawing of two people by a bed
.3 abstract watercolour drawing
.4 abstract watercolour drawing
.5 abstract watercolour drawing
.6 abstract watercolour drawing of two spheres
.7 abstract pencil & watercolour drawing
.8 abstract watercolour drawing; pencil drawing of people on verso
This contains some of the hundreds of drawings that Aldworth made on location at the Royal London Hospital from 2000-2005. Aldworth had to work fast as she observed the brain scans in real time. She decided to use colour as a shorthand to emphasise that the patient on the operating table was a person and not an object, and that they were often in extremis having had a stroke or a tumour. Colour describes this emotional attachment to her subject matter. The Brainscape suite of 30 etching and aquatints were based on these drawings. Read more in the catalogue: “Scribing the Soul”
.1 ringbound sketchbook with watercolour and pencil drawings
.2 watercolour and pencil drawing of two people by a bed
.3 abstract watercolour drawing
.4 abstract watercolour drawing
.5 abstract watercolour drawing
.6 abstract watercolour drawing of two spheres
.7 abstract pencil & watercolour drawing
.8 abstract watercolour drawing; pencil drawing of people on verso
