Supper Club Collaboration Dinner Drawing, 2017, Crayon and pen on paper, 36” x 28”
The Dinner Club
These collaborative works on paper that began during an evening out at a restaurant on the west coast of Canada.
Members of the Supper Club continue with their own art practices, but united for what they call “The Dinner Club.” This social gathering was an effortless way to meet in the evening after working at separate studios. The drawings began in the midst of a bustling and dimly lit Spanish-themed restaurant, with paper laid out on the table and drawing tools arranged alongside wine glasses and utensils.
This convergence was repeated twice more; at a different restaurant and at one of the artists’ home. Each assembly of The Dinner Club featured the sharing of a meal between friends.
The results are spontaneous and explode with a playful and friendly exchange of teasing marks and remarks. Each artist took a pen in hand, allowing the interaction on paper to become the conversation. The artists’ unique wit and personality animated through the touch of pen, and collectively the lines materialized and cavorted between the interchange of loops, dashes, ravens, squirrels, human faces, clouds, and formline.
These works on paper have separated themselves by tone and energy unique to each evening – a collection of four drawings per night. A warm summer night elicited colour, clouds, playfulness, hallucinations, escape, and dreams – all intermingling like thought bubbles. In contrast, a fall evening generated vertical renderings featuring nature, trees, skulls, growth and earthly elements.
The Dinner Club is not only a record of these three artists’ friendship, but is also collective diary of the thoughts, feelings and emotions at work on their subconscious minds during collaboration. What’s most interesting, however, is the serendipity experienced gazing at this trinity of unstructured, unfettered, yet graceful pen to paper dance steps.
Watch this space for more images, and exhibition dates
Drawing last night with Supper Club on menu at Catalano Restaurant April 2017, Rande teaching us formline.
Supper Club collaboration at Catalano Restaurant April 2017 #arttoronto #vancouverisawesome #yvr #yyj
The Drawing Room w/ Supper Club At the Woodsies May 23, 2017. Photo credit: Dev Wood.
More collaborations works on paper May 23, 2017. Pen and Strathmore cotton paper. Detail image
More collaborative works. Detail image. Pen on Strathmore cotton paper. May 23, 2017
More collaborative works on paper June 14, 2017
22.5″ x 30″ Pen on Strathmore cotton paper, 2017
22.5″ x 30″, Pen on Strathmore paper, 2017
22.5″ x 30″, Pen on Strathmore paper, 2017
22.5″ x 30″, Pen on Strathmore paper, 2017
30″ x 22.5″ Pen, pencil crayon, crayon on Strathmore cotton paper, 2017
30″ x 22.5″ Pen on Strathmore paper, 2017
30″ x 22.5″ Pen, pencil crayon, crayon on Strathmore paper, 2017
30″ x 22.5″ Pen, pencil crayon, crayon on Strathmore paper, 2017
![Squirrealism: Psychometry (IIC) in artistic practice. [Online presentation] International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.](https://www.carollyne.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-18-at-9.16.32-PM-copy-1.jpg)
Get Social