This print features one of the many characters in Charles Avery’s epic The Islanders: a work-in-progress that describes in drawing, painting, sculpture and text the topology and cosmology of an imaginary island and the range of characters that inhabit it. ‘Coscienza’, translated as ‘Conscience’ regularly appears in his drawings as a hunched character, with a sack slung over her shoulder, shuffling in to or out of the picture plane.

This is the first limited edition by Charles Avery which was produced as part of a group exhibition Every Eye sees differently as the eye, guest-curated by Irene Bradbury, 4 October – 2 December 2007, at Drawing Room.

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Work Details:

Charles Avery

Coscienza Coming Towards, Coscienza going away from, 2007

woodcut, diptych, 50 x 37.5cm: 60.5 x 48.5 cm framed
Edition of 25,

Limited Edition produced by Drawing Room

£1,800 framed

About the artist:

Charles Avery was born 1973, Oban, Scotland. He lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Onomatopoeia, Part 1 at Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Kunstverein, Hanover and Frac Ile de France/Le Plateau, Paris in 2010. Other recent exhibitions include Folkestone Triennial (2011), the touring exhibition British Art Show (2010) and Walking in My Mind (2009) Hayward Gallery. He had a major solo exhibition at Parasol Unit, 2008, followed by a tour to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam in 2009.