Paul Noble

Paul Noble is a British artist born in Northumberland in 1963. He recently had and exhibition called "welcome to Nobson" at the Gagosian Gallery in Kings Cross. For This show Noble had produced some huge hand drawn, typographical drawings some a a metre or so in diameter and some reaching right to the top of the gallery maybe six meters wide and the same tall. They were drawn as designs for a city the Noble ad created in his mind called Nobson. The about eight of ten plans mainly consisted of one building per piece and were meant as different parts of the city that were scattered around a seemingly arid landscape. Often the building in each drawings design was made up from letters, depicting the use of the building e.g. Public toilet, of Holiday Home. The Drawings were huge and drawn to a really high and consistent level. The detail in them was also really impressive, though some times the content was a little weird, basically lots of walking feces, but i didn't that the work as a whole either suffered or gained from this. The scale of these pictures was definitely the most impressive thing and how the seemed to be so smooth looking. When you knew that they had been drawn all separately by hand on pages probably on bigger the A1 the way that they seem to join seamlessly, and the larger pieces were so big that they were never put together until they were being hung for exhibition in the gallery. Though some of his content is a little weird and contemporary i was really impressed by Noble ability and all the work was definitely interesting.