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Beautifully bound and illustrated catalogue for the Institute exhibition Alan Johnston Drawing a Shadow: No Object, 18 February - 2 May 2010.

Alan Johnston was invited to use the the Institute's white walls as a blank sheet of paper on which to base his drawing. Arriving in Leeds a month before his show opened, he divided the main galleries up into unequal frames, drawing directly  with a pencil onto the walls in strips covering an area of about 2 square cm. Navigating the corners, recesses and architraves; the space which is left is equally as important as the space that he fills in; constantly measuring the shape in space,  he makes sculpture out of architecture.

Introduction by Penelope Curtis. Essay texts, A Reflective Geometry by Gavin Morrison and A Screen Before One's Eyes by Charles Esche.