Alan Franklin

Alan Franklin

Painter, Sculptor

Location : England

My practice follows two paths. Drawings and sculptures, which are essentially abstract and process led. And sculpture which is more ideas led and externally referential.

I like the notion of ‘making a drawing’. Which suggests the physics and the performance of the activity. I think of my drawings as flat sculptures, not drawings for sculptures, but constructions of materials, Which occupy a very shallow space. I avoid deliberate illusion or external reference. And often employ repetition as a means of building structure and a sense of labour.