The Architecture of Time – drawings and installation by renowned artist Bill Zima

Bill Zima – The Architecture of Time

An exhibition of drawings and installations from this renowned artist.
In this ‘mini-retrospective’ artist Bill Zima explores major themes of memory, identity, and loss in
addition to minor themes of myth and language. This is done with the simplest of tools – paper,
pencil/pen, line, dot, number, letter – as transparencies and opacities of life are quietly meditated
upon. Often taking years to complete, these drawings consider the negative and positive space of
time in a variety of 2 and 3 dimensional ways.
Zima’s visual vernacular is nearly pre-lingual as he plays with scale and his facade of memories,
cantilevered over decades of time, cascade with hierarchies of silence. They march with the echoes
and repetition of a Muybridge locomotion and days pass, years fade, a lifetime flickers, and the
tectonics of identity morph into personal myth. Murmurations of loss travel through the solids and
voids of memory and spatial compositions nictate between the mental topography of past, present
and future.

Scott Gallery, Hawick Museum, Wilton Lodge Park, Hawick, TD9 7JL
Tel: 01450 364 747 Email: museums@liveborders1.org.uk
03 March -08 May 23
March: Fri – Mon 11:00-15:00
April & May: Wed – Mon 11:00-16:00