The practice of London based artist, Becky Allen, explores drawing as a form of meditative catharsis. She channels the movement and energy of repetitive mark-making to create artworks that express a visual record of passage through time. Exploring the slow physicality of creating intricate work through the deep contemplation that the act engenders, Allen presents visual forms of rumination to both express and invoke the spirit of introspection.
Using a rhythmic and measured process, she expresses her fascination with line, repeating it meticulously through marks, gestures and traces. Inspired by weaving’s warp and weft, wayfaring paths and the horizon line, her works express the entanglement of line’s manifold associations interwoven throughout human history.
Over the past 7 years Becky has been an artist in residence at Villa Lena, Italy; Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Mexico; Palazzo Monti, Italy; and The Beekeepers, Portugal. Becky’s drawings were selected for both the Jerwood and Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize shortlists in 2017,18 and 20. In 2019 she was awarded a ‘Developing your Creative Practice’ grant from the Arts Council England to deepen her connection to repetitive handiwork through Central and North America.