Georgia O’Keeffe: Memories of Drawings at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock is a new Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition featuring 21 photogravures of drawings produced by the American artist between 1915 and 1963. Photogravure is a printmaking process which produces etchings with the tone and detail of a photograph through exposure onto a copper plate. Renowned for her distinctive balance of abstraction with figuration and her tenacity in pursuing her innovative style, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is one of the most important artists in 20th century American art. Her iconic works of organic forms such as flowers and bones, surreal abstractions, rural landscapes and urban cityscapes broke new ground for women artists. Although best known as a painter, drawing was central to O’Keeffe’s practice in depicting the curve of a flower petal, a desert horizon, a wave of hair or a winding road. It was her pivotal charcoal abstractions which secured her inaugural exhibitions in 1916-17, organised by the prominent photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, who later became her husband.