Data capture: a muse consisted of a series of digital drawing performances by Katherine Bull with invited guests: Willem Boshoff, Brendon Bussy, Barend de Wet & Ed Young

Artist statement:

The main focus of 'data capture: a muse' will be a series of live portrait drawing performances playing on the tradition of life drawing and the artist’s search for a muse. This exhibition forms part of an ongoing series in which I am creating low-resolution portraits on the verge of recognition and explore the relationship between the real-time projected image that mirrors the drawing process and its output as print. This for me both re-focuses the emphasis onto the act of looking and drawing itself and plays with the different perspectives of the public performance as spectacle and the private moment between the artist and sitter. Through this process I continue to attempt to bring the physical and virtual into a closer dialogue. The contextual references reflected in my interrogation of the technology of drawing and print continue to include an alchemy of the art historical, the scientific and the medical in search of finding a position for the contemporary portrait as more than the sum of its parts; an exchange of energy rather than a mechanical process of representation.