"Childhood seems to be used as the moment of departure, a point where drawing can collect lost things, and redirect them to new purposes. The subject comes from a distance, and is brought closer, arrested through drawing. The distance is either that between childhood and here, animal and human, loss and preservation. These works arrest that distance, delay its effects – they are in a sense a spell against loss."
Drawing Distance, an essay on Jessie Brennan's solo exhibition Black Light by Francisco Lobo, London, 2009
Jessie Brennan © 2002