Fourteen False Starts: Conversations with Ian Grose

Published by Stevenson on the occasion of Ian Grose’s exhibition Pictures from the Studio, 30 November 2017.

“I asked Grose what the perfect article about his work would say. How would it describe his artistic pursuits? What impression would it paint of his preoccupations? 

 ‘The perfect article?’ he asked. ‘Or the article that would most satisfy my vanity?’

‘Either,’ I said. ‘Both.’ 

He paused and looked away towards Lion’s Head. ‘The thing that would really make me happy is if someone were to represent that balance that I feel exists between my intellectual endeavour and my practical or technical endeavour. If they could communicate the fact that those two things are so curiously intertwined. Not in an explicit way, but the way they are weaved into the process of the work.’”

Read the full essay here.