In Sam Porritt's First to Last, an artist's book for children, you are invited to follow the life and adventures of a looping line.
The simply drawn line becomes a character in its own right. We follow its progress through a landscape of obstacles, detours and surprises. Whether a biographical metaphor for an artist's quest for meaning, or a visual interplay of shapes, volumes and colours, the looping line invites you to join it in the journey of a lifetime.
Sam Porritt (born 1979 in London, lives and works in Zurich) is an artist working across drawing, sculpture, text and the moving image. His work is concerned with whole spectrum of human behavior and its implications. What can at first appear to be unconnected ideas and questions, often articulated in disparate ways, are in fact often the same intractable problems only viewed from different perspectives. Added to this is his underlying interest in producing things that "stand-alone", artworks that require little if any corroborating information outside of themselves.
