New Circle Work 2024
Eternal, timeless archetypes, ancient and modern.
Since September 2023, Fay has been making a series of crayon and wax coloured drawings on Indian and Nepalese handmade papers, many from reclaimed linen and cotton rags, and wood dust, some bought on a trip to Kolkata in 2023. The drawings have been inspired by her visits in 2023 to Neolithic and Early Viking stone circles, burial mounds and standing stones in the UK and Ireland as well as to see The Trundholm Sun Chariot, from the Nordic Bronze Age, in Copenhagen.
The importance of the sun and the moon was central to our ancestors. The sun god is pulled by a horse over the earth during the day and into the underworld at night; stone megaliths, often shaped into a circle, were placed in relation to the sun and moon’s movements across the sky.
Bruno Munari, the Italian designer, wrote in his book The Circle (1964):
…the circle is related to the divine: a simple circle has since ancient times represented eternity, since it has no beginning and no end.
This series follows an earlier one of over 50 drawings of concentric circles shown at Handel Street Projects in 2021. Those were inspired by Islamic mosques and their domes that represent the vaults of heaven which Fay saw on a trip to Iran in 2019.
