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Here you will find the DRN news archives:
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Monday 20th June
2005 10.30am to 5pm Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University Faculty of Art, Design & Music Knights Park, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 2QJ www.kingston.ac.uk (for directions) |
Research students, academic staff, drawing practitioners
and others interested in drawing research are invited to a symposium of
the Drawing Research Network (DRN) on 20th June 2005.
Although there is a theme to the day the symposium provides an opportunity
for those with a broader interest in drawing research to meet and discuss
work in progress informally. If there is sufficient student interest
it might be possible for students to receive feedback on current work
e.g. research methods. To register email to l.duff@kingston.ac.uk
and full information will be forwarded.
Leo Duff,
Drawing Research
Kingston University
Faculty of Art, Design & Music
Knights Park
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
KT1 2QJ
www.kingston.ac.uk/drawing
www.drawing.org.uk
Cost £25 (made payable to Kingston University)
The Faculty of Art, Media and Design’s Advanced
Centre
in Drawing (ACID) is pleased to announce an exciting
opportunity to participate in a four-day
symposium from
12th – 15th July 2005. This will be supported
by seminars
and a series of keynote presentations at the Bower Ashton
Campus of the University of the West of England, Bristol.
The title ‘Quarters’ represents four separate studios, each
of
which will be lead by an invited artist: Susanna Heron, Tania
Kovats, Avis Newman and Alison Wilding. The studios will run
from 10 am – 5 pm, each focussing on different approaches
to drawing. The event will conclude on the final day with an
‘Open Studio’ presentation from each of the four groups,
together with a series of keynote presentations introduced by
UWE’s Arnolfini Professor of Drawing, Deanna Petherbridge
and the Guardian critic Adrian Searle.
Details of the four lead artists, together with programme
and booking form will shortly be available from the Faculty.
The total cost for the event will be £425. This excludes
accommodation, for which a list of suitable hotels and guest
houses will be supplied.
For further information please contact
Anne Conoley 0117 328 4845
or
email: anne.conoley@uwe.ac.uk
web: www.acid.uwe.ac.uk
Tracey is an electronic journal for contemporary drawing hosted by Loughborough University School of Art and Design. We are inviting submissions on the topic of 'performance' in drawing. What might 'performance' mean in the context of drawing?
The deadline for submissions is 11th March 2005. All the submission guidelines can be found on the Tracey web site (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey/index.html)
the gallery
Agendas, Agendas, Agendas, Lecture Series
To what extent does art have a responsibility politically
or polemically?
Thursday 25th November, In the gallery, 6-8pm
This Agendas event is a panel discussion led by Sir Colin St. John Wilson (Architect of the British Library, Academic and Writer), and includes Peter de Francia, Simon Martin (Assistant Curator at Pallant House and co–author of ‘Modern British Art’). Other panel members to be confirmed.
All Welcome
Wimbledon School of Art
Merton Hall Road
Wimbledon
SW19 3QA
020 8408 5057
thegallery@wimbledon.ac.uk
Train: Wimbledon Station (Overland and Underground)
Tram: Dun Donald Road
Please try to confirm your attendance by booking a
place.
To book please contact Charlotte Kelley, Research Administrator,
0208 408 5024 or researchcentre@wimbledon.ac.uk
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Forthcoming Exhibition:
Peter de Francia:
Drawings
Private View - 17th November, 6-9pm
Exhibition open - 18th November –
10th December 2004
Monday - Friday , 2-7pm
[Closed Weekends]
the gallery at wimbledon school
of art
Wimbledon School of Art
Merton Hall Road
Wimbledon
SW19 3QA
020 8408 5000
thegallery@wimbledon.ac.uk
Train: Wimbledon Station
(Overland and Underground)
Tram: Dundonald Road
Unseen works by one of Britain’s
most respected artists
Wimbledon School of Art is proud to announce a new exhibition
of drawings by distinguished British artist Peter de Francia to take place
in its new gallery situated in the heart of the School. The exhibition
features over 50 of de Francia’s drawings spanning the past 20 years,
including some of the Fables series, preparatory sketches – and
new work, never previously shown. The works featured in the exhibition
exemplify de Francia’s longstanding relationship with drawing. Taking
the modern world and its skewed values as his subject, de Francia offers
sardonic comment, using humour and comic exaggeration to make his point.
Some critics have pointed out affinities with the work of George Grosz.
Readers might be interested in these links to recent drawing works by Mario Minichiello concerning the role of the artist in reporting on war. If you click on the link titled ‘Questionnaire’ in the ‘Art of Conflict’ pages it gives you an opportunity to respond with your opinions about art reporting war. SG
http://www.eichgallery.dabsol.co.uk/minichiello/index.html
http://www.eichgallery.dabsol.co.uk/artconflict/artfirst.html
As a team of professional lecturers and academically qualified practitioners, we strongly believe that drawing underpins all visual arts practice, and is a highly transferable skill. It forms the core of our broad curriculum. We have built up the programme from 'general' drawing classes to the current offer ranging from entry level, levels 1/2 and 3, and will continue to develop this. We believe we offer a supportive setting for anyone aged 16-90+ to engage with this process, which is often surrounded by mystique and can be daunting.
Further information:
Jackie Sullivan, Arts Curriculum Manager
Hammersmith and Fulham Adult Education service
Email: Jackie.Sullivan@lbhf.gov.uk
18th September to 28th November 2004, 10-4.
Part of The Independent strand of Liverpool Biennial 2004 and The Big Draw 2004, Evolve is an interactive drawing installation. Walls in the gallery are covered with paper and visitors are encouraged to contribute to the drawing. Each week areas of the existing drawing will be randomly selected and removed for display as individual works of art, allowing the remaining drawing to constantly evolve.
This exhibition is being run with the support of Hope University College, ‘afoundation’ and Derwent.
Venue: Cornerstone Gallery
Hope at Everton,
1 Haigh Street, Liverpool, L3 8QB.
Tel: 0151 291 3997
Web: www.hope.ac.uk
Web: www.angelfire.com/art2/evolve04
Admission: Free
For further information, contact Dave Bixter: grumpyd@lineone.net (please enter ‘evolve’ in the subject line).
University of Dundee.From 7 June until 4 July PhD researcher Aileen Stackhouse
undertook a residency in Centrespace. The project pulled together three
years of investigation into the thinking that results in drawing. During
this time Aileen created an installation with drawing at its' heart for
the purpose of making conversation. Each week an invited guest joined
Aileen in Centrespace for conversation about the evolving installation
and reflection on the part drawing plays in our thought. The four conversations
are regarded as part of the work. Following the first week video documentation
of the conversations and of the artist drawing were available for viewing
in the VRC. The Drawing ended on 5 July and there was a Closing Conversation
on Tuesday 6 July.
Conversational partners included Luke Collins, Artist; Tony Crook, Visual
Anthropologist; Nicholas Davey, Philosopher and Faith Liddell, Director
DCA.
For further information please visit the website http://www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/Aileen.html or contact Aileen: a.m.z.stackhouse@dundee.ac.uk
Call for entries to the Orleans Open Exhibition
Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
[posted: june 04]
Orleans House Gallery seeks submissions from artists working in a range of media for an open exhibition, which runs from 23 October 2004 - 9 January 2005. The exhibition explores how contemporary artists use drawing in their work, whether as part of the creative process or as medium in itself. Deadline for submissions - Friday 10 September 2004
For further information click here.
Other exhibitions at the
Orleans House Gallery:Print and Process from May 8.
Stables Gallery: Madeleine Strindberg until 23 May.
Riverside Gallery: SerenityLake of the Woods until
13 June 2004.
New summer workshops offered by the Prince's Drawing
School.
Click here for more
information.
From 13 – 16 July 2004, the Advanced Centre in Drawing (a.c.i.d.) at the University of the West of England (UWE), Faculty of Art, Media & Design, will offer a ‘practice-based’ four-day symposium at the Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol.
Each applicant (practitioner) will be able to elect themselves to a Drawing Quarter led by an international artist with a particular drawing philosophy. The artists are:
Caroline Broadhead
Grenville Davey
Paul Gough
Humphrey Ocean
Each Quarter will work together in a studio environment over a three-day period on current or new projects. This will allow each participant to interrogate not only the nature of his/her practice and its relationship to drawing, but also to engage in some of the current debates within the sector’s growing drawing community. An informal studio seminar will be convened towards the end of each working day where a number of invited practitioners and theorists will contribute to the process. This will be followed each evening by lectures from Deanna Petherbridge, (UWE Arnolfini Research Professor in Drawing) Tania Kovats (Henry Moore Drawing Fellow) and Anne-Marie Creamer (Evelyn Williams Drawing Fellow).
On the final day of the symposium, the Drawing Quarters will come together in an Open Studio exhibition at Bower Ashton. The event will conclude with a symposium summary by Deanna Petherbridge and the event will be marked by a publication.
Marvin Jordana [posted: Feb 2004]
DRN readers are invited to view recent work by Marvin Jordana. Marvin has provided the following introduction:
'Drawing is the purest form of visual thinking. I copied these drawings directly from my doodles. The drawing process for me is like an internal dialogue to challenge myself on the infinite variety of structures I can imagine in order to observe the evolution of my thoughts by constantly creating new patterns and forms.'
More examples of this work are available on the gallery page.
3 Day Drawing Master Classes [posted Jan04]
Kingston University have organised two 3-day drawing masterclasses to be held in February and April 2004. One is titled 'Space and Form' and the other 'Memory and Map'. Please see the PDF files here for further information and please publicise to those that may be interested.
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see also: http://www.johnatkin.net
Mario Minichiello of Loughborough University School of Art
and Design has been commissioned by the Arts and Humanities Research Board
to be the war artist for the Afghanistan war. This work extends Mario's
research into drawing as language and its value for communication. It
is hoped the Mario will keep DRN readers informed with images and articles
as the work progresses.
Contact: mario.minichiello@virgin.net
ArtReview is publishing a very special drawing issue in May 2003. The
drawing issue will be devoted to drawing and contemporary practice. Articles
will include an exclusive feature on Paul Noble, Paul Hedge and Richard
Heller on contemporary drawing (including Raymond Pettibon, Marcel Dzama,
William Cordova, Dan Clowes, Dawn Clements, Sebastiaan Bremer, Diana Cooper
and Trenton Doyle Hancock) and a unique artist intervention by Adam Dant.
Reviews will include the opening of the Drawing Room gallery in London
and recent exhibitions at the New York Drawing Center.
SPECIAL ADVERTISING OFFER
As a special promotion, ArtReview are offering special advertising rates
to galleries and associations connected with drawing: Full colour page
- £900 / Half page colour - £700 / Quarter page colour £400.
To make a booking please call Emily Palmer on +44 (0)207 246 3362
Listings are also available in ArtPreview, the free gallery guide produced monthly and distributed FREE by ArtReview. To book a listing at £55 for May or to enquire about series rates, please call Lynda Clarke on +44 (0)207 246 3363
SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION RATE
20% discount = £38 for 10 issues - call 0800 028 3551 to order in
time for May 2003 Drawing issue
Drawing Research Network readers may be interested in the following work by Kathryn Moore. Further information on this work will be available shortly via the Tracey drawing research website (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey/). I'll add the exact link when known. In 2004 a book on this research will be published by Routledge.
[posted 6 April 2003]
James Elkins: Why Art Historians and Critics Should
Learn to Draw
Tuesday 8 June 2004, 18.30 - 20.30
'There is little theorizing on the connections between the experience
of painting a picture and the sense of painting gained by reading history
or criticism. What might historians and critics miss if they do not have
some experience of drawing and painting? In this year’s Peter Fuller
Memorial Lecture I will draw out some of the consequences of the disjunction
between practice and scholarship, in part by proposing a parallel to music:
what is the link between being able to play instrument (or write compositions)
and reviewing music, or writing music history?
In part these are practical questions, which bear on the genres of art history and criticism; but they are also historical questions, because they have consequences for the kinds of modernism and postmodernism that are disseminated in the art world; and they are philosophic questions, because they model possible links between production and criticism, and between scholarly and studio practice at University.’ James Elkins
James Elkins (University College Cork/Art Institute of Chicago) is the author, most recently, of Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction and (forthcoming) Six Stories from the End of Representation.
In collaboration with the Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
£6 (£4 concessions), booking recommended www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/elkins.htm
020 7887 3969
www.tate.org.uk/eventseducation
Tate events ebulletin: www.tate.org.uk/bulletins/
Sat 8 March 2003
10am to 4pm
Conference Room £20 (£10)
Mead Gallery
Warwick Arts Centre
Coventry
CV4 7AL
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
024 7652 4524
* Is drawing still relevant in our technology driven world?
* How do artists use drawing and to what ends?
* What is the state of drawing now?
Out of line: Drawing Now is a day long symposium with an emphasis on artist led presentations and discussion. The event will be chaired by Deanna Petherbridge, artist and Arnolfini Professor of Drawing at University of the West of England, Bristol, who is currently completing a book on the history and practice of drawing.
The symposium intends to explore the relevance, functions and potential
of drawing within contemporary culture. Speakers include the artists Shahin
Afrassiabi, David Connearn, Adam Dant, Michael Ginsborg and curator Ele
Carpenter.
Nominated for the 2001 Beck’s Futures competition at the ICA, London,
Afrassiabi was also included in the defining exhibition of new sculpture,
Early One Morning, recently held at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Underlying
each of his sculptural assemblages is a process that begins with the creation
and manipulation of 2D computer based plans and diagrams.
David Connearn worked in the studio of Sol Le Witt and his practice takes a similarly conceptual and philosophical bent. He treats drawing as performance, repeating the same work over and over again, each manifestation revealing subtle differences that raise questions about the limits of representation. Connearn will discuss his work with Newcastle based curator Ele Carpenter.
The Independent on Sundays’ comic strip, Donald Parsnips' Daily Journal, began life as a handmade book combing odd cartoons with slogans like ‘Beware, wild horses will try and keep you away from things you don't want to go to’. It’s creator, Adam Dant, winner of the 2002 Jerwood Drawing prize, will discuss his work.
Michael Ginsborg, artist and Director of Studies at Wimbledon School of Art, will look at drawing now, providing a context for the individual practices that are examined in depth.
The Beachcombers, an exhibition of three young Canadian artists, curated by Katharine Stout for The Drawing Room, will be on show in the gallery, alongside Elements, an exhibition by Susanna Heron. Both of these exhibitions are considerations of the practice of drawing within the work of contemporary artists.
Jac Saorsa, a research student at Loughborough University, recently completed a teaching and research residency at Veritas University, Costa Rica. Below is her report to the Drawing Research Network.
I have recently returned from a six-week residency at Veritas University of Art and Design, which is situated in San Jose, Costa Rica. Veritas is a relatively small but very successful university that offers degrees in architecture, graphic design, design for publicity, product design, interior design, cine design and 3D Animation. It has a developing post-graduate program, as well as a highly successful international student program, and also offers intensive Spanish language courses at all levels.
My visit to Veritas was primarily in order to complete a specific drawing project of my own, however I did give three lectures, and led workshops with both students and lecturers, about drawing practice while I was there. As the principal focus at Veritas is design, and I come from a mainly fine art background, this made my visit even more interesting because of the different disciplinary emphasis as regards the drawing activity.
I found that the way drawing is perceived from within the design education context and across the various disciplines was sometimes at odds with my own perception of its importance as a fundamental discipline in any sort of creative activity. Both staff and students at Veritas however were very willing to discuss and work with me around all aspects of the drawing activity, especially its role in the perceived distinction between design and fine art practice in general. I have been developing a series of workshops based on the concept of 'drawing without ideas'; the context is derived from a project I completed last year called 'Mapping the Mark', and, although not directly related, is along similar lines to the research into drawing practice that I am currently pursuing at Loughborough University.
The series is intended to move the participants through a practical process that begins with simple intuitive mark making and develops into a more cognitive decision making process that is nevertheless based on a profound sense of their own creativity. It is a process that inevitably involves both doubt and faith in their own ability and indeed, at the beginning at least, it involves an actual leap of faith - especially for students who in their usual practice begin with a particular end product in mind. At Veritas I piloted the workshops and these experimental sessions generated many new ideas and developments.
I am indebted to those students and lecturers who attended the workshops for their unending enthusiasm and their important contributions. My visit to Veritas was for me personally a huge success, and as I have been invited back there for another two months later in the year I am sure that the next visit will be equally as enjoyable.
You can contact Jac at jacsaorsa@hotmail.com
Draft, Adults,
Sat 19 Oct, 11.15am - 3.00pm. Free.
A round table discussion, chaired by Julian Spalding, Master of the
Guild of St. George, that will define priorities and values in contemporary
drawing. Speakers will explore the role of drawing in contemporary art
practice, education, and within Museums, Galleries and Collections. Adults,
Sat 19 Oct, 11.15am - 3.00pm. Free.
The Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition 2002
Britain's only annual open drawing competition is on the London leg of
its 10 month UK tour.
75 artists are included in this year's exhibition selected by a panel
of internationally renowned judges. All ages.
Jerwood Space
171 Union Street
London
SE1 0LN
2 Oct - 10 Nov, 10am - 6pm
Free
And after this,
Birmingham 23 Nov 2002 to 5 Jan 2003
mac,
Cannon Hill Park Road
Birmingham B12 9QH
Glasgow 14 Jan to 22 Feb 2003,
Glasgow School of Art
167 Renfrew Street,
Glasgow G3 6RQ
Hull 3 March to 4 April 2003,
EICH Gallery
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside
George Street
Hull HU1 3BW
Manchester 12 April to 22 June 2003
The Promenade Gallery
The Lowry
Pier 8
Salford Quays
M50 3AZ
The Jerwood Drawing Prize
The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the only annual open exhibition for
drawing in the UK and aims to promote and reward excellence and talent
in contemporary drawing practice. The exhibition is currently open to
entry by all artists resident or domiciled in the UK.
Every year the changing panel of distinguished artists, writers, critics,
collectors and curators select the show independently and without knowledge
of the artists submitting; they define their own priorities for an exhibition
of current drawing practice.
For further information about the Jerwood Drawing Prize please contact
Karen Bateson, Exhibition Co-ordinator.
The Jerwood Drawing Prize
Wimbledon School of Art
Merton Hall Road
London
SW19 3QA
Tel: 020 8408 5533
Fax: 020 8408 5050
Email: kbateson@wimbledon.ac.uk
Web: www.wimbledon.ac.uk
Journal of Art & Design Education - iJADE
Special Issue on Drawing (Volume 21, Issue 3)
Blackwell Publishing are delighted to offer the opportunity to purchase the forthcoming special issue on Drawing at the special reduced price of £15. This issue is devoted to papers concerned with drawing practice and research, featuring international papers from educators and researchers on aspects of drawing practice from early childhood to adulthood.
Contents include:
Drawing Power
E. Adams
Conversations Around Young Children's Drawing
A. Anning
Sketching Now
B. Jonson
Briefing Illustrators: Revisiting the Value of Sketch Images
S. Garner
Children's Drawing: Self-Expression, Identity and Imagination
B. Hawkins
Mapping the Domain of Drawing
H. Riley
Developing a School Drawing Policy with NQT's in Art and Design
T. Rayment and F. Smith
On Drawing: Visual Language and the Pictorial Image.
An Interview with John Willats
S. Tormey and G. Whale
The Choreography of Drawing
J. McNorton
The Original Creative Principle
J. Renshaw
To order the issue, please contact:
Journal Customer Journal Customer Services
Blackwell Publishing
PO Box 1354
108 Cowley Road
Oxford
OX4 1ZG
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1865 251866
Fax: +44 (0)1865 381393
Email: customerservices@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com
Quoting reference: 02EM219JAD
Stop Press …
The Journal will become officially titled the International Journal
of Art & Design Education from 2003. The new ISSN will be 1476-8062.
For more information on iJADE please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/jade.
Or contact: Wendy Fox, Marketing Manager at wfox@blackwellpublishers.co.uk
www.accessart.org.uk/online_workshops.html
AccessArt will be a valuable meeting place for teachers, gallery educators and artists to exchange ideas as well as a fun, creative and dynamic learning tool for pupils across all the key stages, and for home-users. From this site, you can access:
· A series of visually exciting and innovative 'online workshops', specially created by AccessArt. The online workshops will condense and articulate events, ideas or workshops that take place in museum and gallery education programmes or schools. The workshops will be aimed at various ages, and the selection of workshops will grow as the site expands.
· Teachers Notes and Printable Resource Material. Each online workshop will be accompanied by explanatory notes for the educators and printable resource material which can be used directly by the workshop participant.
· Web sites of particular providers/recipients of the workshops featured.
· External links to related and complementary sites.
www.accessart.org.uk/drawing/index.htm
An online resource aimed at 16 plus learners
www.accessart.org.uk/drawingtogether
An online resource aimed at eight years and upwards and their parents/teachers.
