Betwixt and Between. A talk by Rose Nag
Thursday 6 May 2010, 6:30pm
Talk on the occasion of the exhibition
Betwixt and between. Work in progress, 2000–2010
Rose has been teaching at London Met’ and its predecessors, the Polytechnic and then the University of North London, since 1989. Her demand that drawing is an explorative act, both visceral and poetic as well as rigorous and exacting, has introduced generations of students to a perception of space beyond measurement and a school of thinking through drawing.
This has been most explicit in working with foundation and first year students. But Rose has worked with design studios and units, on field-trips and workshops throughout the department, reminding students of the value of standing back and looking again, differently.
Colourspace, one of Rose’s most consistently inspiring teaching programmes, prompted a different output through a combination of colour theory, studies of paintings, buildings and places, articulating students’ spatial imagination and sensitivity to colour and material.
Rose’s visual thinking, her seeing through drawing and painting, is now showing here everywhere in the department, and on show in this exhibition. We see how she sees and can make tenuous, teasing connections to the work that she has done with students over those years. Perhaps too, it marks a transition from teacher back to artist and to many more places and spaces to be revealed.
