Sorcha Dallas

Glasgow-based artist and musician Rob Churm’s drawings and prints manage to evoke a sense of the surreal and the commonplace, the tightly controlled and the chaotic. With a technique that ranges from carefully drawn linear elements to drips and splatters of ink, the tensions in his work make for fascinating viewing.

Gummy Stumps, a black and white drawing made with Tipp-Ex, pen and ink on paper, is humorous and slightly sinister, with its almost childlike representation of a cigarette balanced between two rows of teet, as seen from the inside of the mouth. Still Life With Dithering Trumpets, a large wall drawing, is more abstract, its visually arresting composition of lines and geometric shapes hiding references to fish and bones.

Churm has started to make prints and, while these are less successful than his drawings, given time he will probably learn how to use the medium to his advantage.