Artist Pam Evelyn: ”Drawing is such a fluid thing.”

”Drawing is where it all starts.” We met British artist Pam Evelyn while working on a print and talked with her about her love for drawing. “It's really the beginning of ideas. There's a freedom in that, and you can really open up many questions without having answers straight away. You know that the possibility and potential is there. And then, yeah, it just opens everything up.” ”Drawing is such a fluid thing. It can happen anywhere, whether that's something that hits you in the moment while you're traveling on the trains a lot. So there are these sort of fleeting images that constantly pass me. You're sitting motionless, the world's passing by, and in those moments, really, my mind flees away, and drawing then becomes the perfect thing to capture those fleeting ideas.” Pam Evelyn (b. 1996 in Surrey (Guildford), UK) is an artist based in London. She holds a BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2019) and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2020). She was awarded the Cass Art Prize in 2019. Evelyn’s work is held in the public collections of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, and Zabludowicz Collection, London. Recent solo and group exhibitions include The Reason for Painting, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, United Kingdom (2023); Pam Evelyn: Amid Tall Waves, Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique, Paris (2023); New British Abstraction, Centre for International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada (2023); Abstract Colour, Marlborough Gallery, London (2023); Abstraction (re)creation – 20 under 40, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2024); XXX, Studio Voltaire, London (2024); Online: Excavation: Macro to the Micro, Vortic Art (2024); A New British Modernity, Burberry Art Space, Seoul (2024); Alchemists, Pond Society, Shanghai (2024); and Abstraction (Re)Creation - 20 Under 40, X Museum, Beijing, May 25–October 12, 2025. In 2023, Evelyn was commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, London, to create two etchings to accompany the major exhibition, Action, Gesture, Paint Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 (2023). Pam Evelyn was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at Edition Copenhagen in July 2026. Camera: Simon Weyhe Edited by: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner Music via Upright: Awaiting The Signal by Andreas Tykjær Restorff, Frederik Thybo andTorleik Mortensen Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2026 Louisiana Channel is supported by Den A.P. Møllerske Støttefond. Subscribe to our channel for more videos on art:    / thelouisianachannel   SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER: https://channel.louisiana.dk/newsletter FOLLOW US HERE: Website: http://channel.louisiana.dk Instagram:   / louisianachannel   Facebook:   / louisianachannel