Forty Years Drawn: Pete Bossley
OBJECTSPACE, 1 AUGUST – 18 OCTOBER
The ways in which we encounter architectural drawings in a gallery space are varied. We may view vertically mounted copies of drawings hung on walls, originals held flat within vitrines, which we bend over to look at closely, or projected imagery, moving animations of space. Pete Bossley’s Forty Years Drawn, currently exhibited at Objectspace, offers a different approach to looking at drawings. Here, the room contains books. Yet, these are not holistically designed objects, as are, say, exhibited artists’ books. Instead, this is a personal archive, a library, of one architect’s sketchbooks brought into the public realm.
Each of the four walls of the Chartwell Gallery contains two rows of white, angled shelves, at eye and hand heights, on…
