Carol Lee
Carol Lee creates remarkable intricate scenes of everyday activities; a master draughtswoman of drawing in meticulous visionary detail. Her subjects are people in shopping malls, busy bar scenes, bus-stops, parks and high streets depicting an urban muddle where casual shoppers congregate in Where’s Wally like detail.
The drawings are compiled from memory and the artist’s own imagination, conjured from watching people passing, ‘It is very much about people moving, how people stand, what they look like when they are standing in the street or waiting for a bus.’ Complex pen-and-ink illustrations act almost as explanatory texts, detailing a mass of activity and forming a timeline that leads to the future; the next morning, the shops closing, the bus arriving. Carol Lee has a particular mastery that enables her to recall memories attesting to her drawings a sense of the real-world, ‘the drawings start themselves, always from memory’. Carol creates montages of journeys to and fro and is highly influenced by the comic books she read when growing up; her characters portray the nervous energy of the likes of The Broons of the 1960s, cut with that same wry sense of humour pitched somewhere between the bar and the playground.
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Gallery Details
Project Ability
103 Trongate
Glasgow
G1 5HD
0141 552 2822
info@project-ability.co.uk
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Gallery Opening Times
Tuesday to Saturday
10am to 5pm