Last year Viner had an exhibition at the Henry Moore Gallery,
The exhibition focused on Viner's experimental work at the Slade in the mid- 1970s. Darrell Viner (1947 - 2001) was a pioneer in the field of computer art. He originally turned to computers to pursue his interest in movement and animation and went on to apply the technology to kinetic and interactive sculpture. Darrell Viner:Early Work focuses on Viner's experimental work at the Slade School of Fine Art in the mid-1970s and celebrates the recent acquisition to the Leeds Museum & Galleries Sculpture Collection of a series of his computer drawings from this period. Created with a pen plotter, which Viner regarded as a pliable drawing tool, the images have a remarkable hand-drawn quality.
The artist described them as a 'journey in mark making'. Together with the drawings, the exhibition includes documentation of Viner's early kinetic sculptures that show the continuity between his work in two and three dimensions. For his degree show at the Slade, he made a set of animated wooden sculptures, which he described as 'creepy crawly creatures'.
These were later shown at the Royal Academy, where the moving legs scratched the wooden floor, taking on the character of automated drawing machines. This experiment led to the computer animation 'Inside/Outside' (1976), a film drawn by a virtual automaton programmed to simulate the actions of a kinetic sculpture, which is screened within the show. In addition to the works on paper and film, Darrell Viner: Early Work presents a later kinetic sculpture by Viner - from the mid-1980s - that is activated by the shadows of passers by. As with all of Viner's works, this opens a conversation between man and machine to propose an expanded understanding of the study of sculpture.
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