Vertical Panorama: Oak Tree, 2013
Hannah Downing (born 1985)
graphite on paper
This drawing has been a popular part of New Horizons for its incredible detail. The artist was inspired by the details and textures of the landscape on her journey to work.
The artist describes how she studied nature from each direction, from the moss on the ground below to the branches above.
The extreme sense of perspective gives a powerful impression of the tree towering above the viewer. It was produced from a composite image of many photographs, Downing describes how, ‘The act of re-making the image carries with it its own type of looking, another relationship between the image and material across time’.
Visit New Horizons: Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection to see highlights of the paintings, works on paper, sculpture and video art that have joined the collection over the last ten years. ✨
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Millennium Gallery
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