Catalogue essay by Kathy Kubicki

To accompany the two person exhibition Beyond The Pale (Lesley Halliwell & Susie MacMurray)

Gallery 103, Wrexham (2003)

In recent contemporary practice there has been an increase interest in drawing, a resurgence of a disappearing art form in a time of an ever-increasing volume of photography and digitalised work in galleries everywhere. Drawing is an instantaneous, physical and intimate method of working and involves intense concentration and solitude.