LEE HASSALL
Fettle
The figure stands, initially, with his back to the passers by. He positions himself on a small dais and begins to scatter straw taken from a drawstring sack. He is seated alongside a box, and inside the box are drawing implements and strange sculptural and ritual objects. The sculptural objects are held and slowly rotated as they are drawn on paper. He draws and measures aspects of the building, calibrating them with his body. Periodically a drawing is placed in the box and another object selected. A pole is posed horizontally, on two fingers, in order to find its point of balance. This is then marked with a notch. The cycle then repeats.
Lee Hassall has made performance work for the Hay Festival, for Beijing, China, and for the Trace Gallery, Cardiff. He is a graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (1998) and he completed an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art (1999). He was commissioned by Sustrans for Contemporary Sitings on the National Cycle Network, has presented installation work at Fordham Gallery, London, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, and has screened film works at Tate Britain, London, The Arnolfini, Bristol, The Toronto Biennial, and in Krakow, Poland. He lectures at Herefordshire College of Art & Design.