Circle Drawing (2004 – 2023)
‘Circle Drawing’ is a series of large-scale artworks made with graphite on paper in front of a live audience, drawing one continuous line (in the shape of a circle) at full arm's length until exhaustion and the graphite stick drops from the grasp of her hand; most performances endure 2hrs - 4hrs of constant drawing; each performance becomes a battle between keeping going, the action, and the materials; each work is titled by its duration and depending on situations and conditions, thresholds of endurance, some drawings have rips and some with blood.
McCall began this performance-based practice in 2004 while an art graduate at the University of Toronto, in Canada studying Art and Art History. In 2007 the work became the foundation for a practice-based research PhD, thesis titled The Line is a Brea(d)thless Line: introducing the physicality of running as a form of drawing, and co-authoring the publication title: ‘Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945’ (Bloomsbury 2020).
Recent live performances include Blunk Space, California 2023, CLOSE Ltd Gallery 2023, Aubert Jansem, Geneva Switzerland, 2023.