'A Melodic Line' curated by James Campbell

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"I have  taken the opportunity to share these beautiful spaces at Twenty Twenty Gallery with a group of people whose work I really admire. There was no concept, and when later on the question of a title arose, my mind was a blank. Titles can be useful - they give a clue to the viewer, an invitation, and a way into the work - not that any of this work needs signposting, for it is all highly accessible. This is much more than a collection of line drawings : but we all use line, in ways that are personal, developed, spirited, and expressive. You can see it here, in mono printed shapes, in slip trailing, in wire, in wood engraving … and in drawing too. An improvising musician may think in terms of a melodic line spinning out over chords. I hope that in this show there will be lines that sing."