Collaboration with Lisa Jones. A response to site – materials – one another
Julia Davis and Lisa Jones work with a range of materials and processes and have collaborated on a number of projects. Who was the driver? is from a series of drawings that extend their collaboration through interrogating mark making and materials and engaging with notions of temporality and duration.
Who was the driver? examines the relationship between people and the places they inhabit and uses the surface of the road as found object. This drawing was created using the method of frottage where the paper was laid onto a Sydney road and rubbed by hand with car emissions and graphite. It was then repeatedly driven upon. As opposed to Cage and Rauschenberg’s drawing TIRE (1953) where the marks were made entirely by an automobile, Davis and Jones bring the authorship back to the artist by introducing their own overlay to produce a drawing begun by hand and finished by machine.
Photography: Richard Glover