Gary Woodley
"Schnecke with torus of zero aperture"
720 dpi archival print size A2, 2004.
"Labyrinth with Moebius torus of elliptical section"
720 dpi archival print size A2, 2004.
"Fontanahaus with Enneper 2 surface"
720 dpi archival print size A2, 2004.
Gary Woodley
Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
Currently involved in the design of 'Primary Space' a new primary school for Dalry, Scotland, with artist Bruce McLean, architect Will McLean and North Ayrshire County Council architects department.
"This work comes from an interest in the coding, distribution and orientation of edge, surface, volume and space through the use of projective, discriptive and topological geometries, and predominately since 1985 with extending the 'Impingement' series - large scale immaterial architectonic drawings thrown onto the given environment, often articulating whole buildings. Recent works have utilised fibre- optic, electro-luminescent and CAD/CAM technologies alongside a material modular aesthetic involving furniture and architecture.
The gray lines depict an existing building. The black lines are the line of intersection of an ideal geometric form with the existing building. The drawings are presented as proposals, but I actually make the black lines in real buildings as the final work. I started out with simple spheres, like bubbles bigger than the room and through technological progress can now employ some of the surfaces that come from minimal surface geometry. Transitional work looks at the variations of the torus especially once given a moebius twist, a challenge to established architectural space. "