_{Installation view: Matt Ellwood: Prototypes for blind contour drawing apparatus, 21 Feb 2024 - 06 Apr 2024. Photo: Stephen Cleland}

Matt Ellwood’s exhibition brings together two contrasting approaches to drawing. His ongoing series of realist charcoal works replicate and juxtapose imagery gleaned from the advertising sections in high-profile international art magazines, and these are brought into conversation with a series of new sculptures designed to aid the production of blind contour drawings. Seen together, the installation explores contrasting constraints on the act of drawing while implicating the larger mechanisms that shape the art world. On the night of the opening, a drawing performance enacting the sculptures will begin at 5.30pm.