Emma McNally puts together drawings using a variety of techniques and on a scale that allows her to combine and integrate soft fields of graphite with tight geometrical approaches, she merges the symbolic notation of maps with gestural fields of atmospheric mark making.
Emma McNally’s drawings sit on an edge between various modes of representation, sometimes they look like maps sometimes sea going charts or stars in the night sky. They have been compared to military maps that chart the movements of armies as well as computer circuit boards, aircraft flight paths, aerial photographs, radar screens and abstract musical scores. However what they also do is create very compelling spaces, ones that you can lose yourself in as your eyes begin to trace out various pathways indicated by dots and lines that crisscross the surfaces of these complex layered drawings. If you want to look closely at an artist that is working with a wide range of data and is translating it into information that sits into large drawings, McNally is someone I would suggest you go to, and to spend some time really looking at the surfaces of her work.
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