Whilst I was drawing in the Angerstein Wharf area, ships repeatedly arrived and departed with the rhythm of the tide to load and unload aggregate. In this image I wanted to find a way to draw both the ship’s presence and its absence: I wanted to draw the way that my observation of the ship during a current moment in time, also held my memory of the ship’s absence and my expectation of its future return.   

Visualising the ship as a form that was both present and absent, was also an attempt to find a means to draw the ceaseless ebb and flow of the tide and the way that tidal forces make cyclical rhythms so strongly felt in this location.

This drawing was short-listed for the Derwent Art Prize 2020.

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