Mary YacoobCorners
For Corners, Mary Yacoob has photographed working drawings, plans and photographs of the construction of The 1951 Festival of Britain. Organised by the British government, the Festival embodied its hopes and dreams for the future in terms of the development of new science, technology and industry after the trauma and austerity of the Second World War
. Viewing her photographs on her mobile phone, enlarging, shifting the image around the screen, she traces and retraces each image, overlapping the shifting shapes. Using a grid system she then transfers these tracings onto paper, using ink to paint the transparent shapes on top of each other. She investigates how the structure and feeling of the image lingers or transforms via the interplay of order and randomness, the accuracy of the grid versus the chance overlaying of line and form, |
Mary Yacoob
Mary Yacoob is an artist who lives and works in London. Her work explores geometry, line, patterns and systems via drawing, collage, printmaking and vinyl floor works. She appropriates symbolic visual grammars from architectural plans, maps, diagrams, and alphabets, often creating works that are proposals for fantasy architectural or artistic interventions.
Yacoob studied fine art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2007) and Cass School of Fine Art, London Metropolitan University (2004). Exhibitions include Dark Matter Studio, PayneShurvell, & Model, TROVE, the Centre for Recent Drawing, Galerie8, Guest Projects and OVADA. In 2011 she was artist in residence at the printmaking department of Camberwell College of Art.
Yacoob studied fine art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2007) and Cass School of Fine Art, London Metropolitan University (2004). Exhibitions include Dark Matter Studio, PayneShurvell, & Model, TROVE, the Centre for Recent Drawing, Galerie8, Guest Projects and OVADA. In 2011 she was artist in residence at the printmaking department of Camberwell College of Art.