Since September 2023, Fay’s been making crayon and wax coloured drawings on Indian and Nepalese handmade papers from reclaimed linen, cotton rags and wood dust, and some bought on a trip to Kolkata in 2022. The drawings are inspired by visits in 2023 to Neolithic and Early Viking stone circles, burial mounds and standing stones in the UK and Ireland as well as The Trundholm Sun Chariot, from the Nordic Bronze Age, in Copenhagen.
The importance of the sun and moon was central to our ancestors. The sun god is pulled by a horse over the earth during the day and into the underworld at night; stone megaliths, often shaped into a circle, were aligned to the sun and moon’s movements across the sky.
Bruno Munari, the Italian designer, wrote in his book The Circle (1964):
‘…the circle is related to the divine: a simple circle has since ancient times represented eternity, since it has no beginning and no end.’
This series follows an earlier one of over 50 drawings of concentric circles shown in Fay’s show ‘In Circles’ at Handel Street Projects in 2021 and in a group drawings exhibition ‘Lines of Empathy’ at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art in 2022 and Closed Ltd Gallery in 2023. The earlier series was inspired by Islamic mosques and their domes that represent the vaults of heaven which Fay saw on a trip to Iran in 2019.
Circle 2
Circle 3
Circle 4
Circle 5
Circle 6 Wax
Circle 7
Circle 8
Circle 10
Circle 11
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Circle 14
Circle 15
