The NEW Drawing Research Network website is now available. We will be temporarily keeping both sites open whilst you get used to the new format. Then in March / April we will be using the new system full time. For assistance using the site refer to the video below. If you want to write an article then refer to the DRN introduction article, help guide and Wordpress TV as there are strict technical guidelines for submission. We cannot offer technical support for individuals but over the next couple of months we will be writing further help documentation. Please bookmark the new DRN site too!
Tracey - the electronic journal of drawing and contemporary issues - is inviting submissions for their next theme: Drawing & Technology. Further information on this can be found on the Tracey web site at the link below.
Tracey - Current issue: Fragmentation, including submissions by: Tracey Bowen, Gordon James Brown & Ros McCulloch, Maryclare Foà, GAStyZ, David Griffin, Marvin Jordana and Jill Journeaux.
Advance notice: Glenn Sujo workshop, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
28 June - 2 July 2010. [11 January 2009]
Titled Mind-Spirit-Body-Matter: drawn to the human, Glenn will be working with a number of guest contributors and with a range of collections in the University of Cambridge, including the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The National Open Art Exhibition, Chichester [16 November 2009]
Open 10am - 9pm daily
The Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre,
Oaklands Park Chichester, PO19 6AP
'Untitled – Bed 7' has been selected for the 2009 National Open Art Competition by Gavin Turk (artist), Catherine Lampert (former director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London), and James Stewart (Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel).
All work is for sale, admission is FREE, and there will be various talks and discussions. For further information visit www.thenationalopenartcompetition.com
New Contemporaries I, The Bristol Gallery, Bristol [16 November 2009]
Saturday 7 November – Thursday 7 January 2010
Mon – Fri: 9am – 6pm; Thurs until 8pm; Sat & Sun: 10am – 5pm
Press /Private View: Thursday 05 November 2009, 5pm – 7pm
The Bristol Gallery, Building 8,
Unit 2 Millennium Promenade,
Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TY
Curated by Andrew Price and Holly Lopez, featuring the best and the brightest emerging contemporary artists, the show explores new parameters and directions, bringing a diverse range of talent and experience to new audiences in the region. The exhibition acts as site for unusual and exciting discoveries, promoting and creating access to vibrant contemporary visual art with a lively assembly of artists working in a range of media including photographs, textiles, abstracts, video, installation and sculpture.
Artists include Arno, Jan Lewin-Cadogan, Rakhee, Nicola Dale, Cordelia Spalding, Katharine Barker, Paul Wright, Fran Richardson, Alison Black, Susan Bowman, Peter Walker, Michelle Lord and Helen Grundy.
A conference jointly organised by the Drawing Research Network www.drawing.org.uk and the Campaign for Drawing www.campaignfordrawing.org
Thursday 8th October 2009
Venue: Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, London (Next to Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Nearest Underground station: Holborn)
9.30 Doors open
10.30 Welcome
10.45 Keynote presentation. Joel Fisher
‘Notes Towards a Prepositional Drawing’
11.45 Ana Leonor Madeira Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon
‘Invention, intervention and interaction: the works of Helena Almeida, Lourdes de Castro, Gabriela Albergaria and Inês Teixeira'
12.15 Teresa Carneiro, Drawing Spaces, Lisbon
‘Drawing Spaces’
12.45 Lunch break
2.00 Eileen Adams, Director of Power Drawing
‘Power Drawing’
3.00 Eduardo Corte-Real, Institute of Visual Arts, Design and Marketing, Lisbon
‘A Smooth Guide to Travel Drawing’
3.30 Break
3.45 Plenary discussion.
4.30 Closing remarks and end.
This conference is in collaboration with the Campaign for Drawing (CfD) who are holding a number of events in London either side of the 8th October. The central London venue provides an opportunity to bring together those attending CfD events and people from the DRN in 'Drawing for Learning, Engagement and Enjoyment': an international conference. Information on the CfD events appears below including how to book for the full programme. Please pass on this information to anyone who might be interested.
The DRN conference, Thursday 8th October, 'Thinking Through Drawing' Conference fee £40 (£30 concessions e.g. students)
In previous years our DRN conferences have been generously supported by our host institutions (Kingston, Wimbledon, Loughborough) but our use of a central London venue this year necessitates a modest charge to delegates. To keep the costs as low as possible - particularly considering the number of students who might like to attend I have decided that those attending will make their own lunch arrangements. You are welcome to bring a packed lunch or to purchase food and drink in one of the many cafes and sandwich bars in the vicinity and your food can be consumed inside the Cochrane Theatre. This decision has considerably reduced the conference fee. Tea and coffee will be provided in the fee. We are aiming for about 100 people.
If you want to bring a large group of students could you check with Steve Garner first.
Booking is straightforward. Simply send an email to Steve Garner (s.w.garner@open.ac.uk) to register for a place. Please state if you are applying for a place at the concessions rate. Payment will be made on the day at the door. You can pay by cash or cheque but not by card. If, subsequently, you find you cannot attend PLEASE let me know as soon as possible.
Drawing for Learning, Engagement and Enjoyment: An International Conference, 7-11 October 2009
The DRN conference is only one part of this bigger conference that will take place in central London cultural venues including the V&A museum between 7th and 11th October 2009. This interactive conference is for a wide range of cultural educators including those in museums, galleries, heritage sites, schools, colleges, universities. The conference is a response to growing interest in the learning potential of the Campaign for Drawing's flagship programmes, The Big Draw and Power Drawing professional development. It will be relevant and valuable to artists and teachers - in fact anyone who wishes to learn more about the powerful ways of employing drawing to support learning, engagement and enjoyment.
The conference includes The Big Draw, a two-day seminar led by Eileen Adams. The full programme, including objectives, what's included, and application process, appears in the attached information. Alternatively visit the following link to find this information: http://www.thebigdraw.org.uk/powerdrawing/conference.aspx
Conference fee: £95 UK delegates, 400 Euros for those outside the UK. European residents from outside the UK can apply for Gruntvig funding to attend. Instructions for how to do this are available at: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/llp/istcoursedatabase/search.cfm or contact Sally Case at the Campaign for Drawing, sally@campaignfordrawing.org +44 (0)208 351 1719
Applications to the full conference automatically include the DRN conference.
Greig Burgoyne The Future of Nostalgia [30 september 2009]
A new wall Drawing
Jerwood Space, London SE1
to coincide with the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2009
Preview Tuesday 15th September 6pm
images available at www.greigburgoyne.com www.jerwoodspace.co.uk
Centre for Recent Drawing [C4RD] presents the work of international British artist, Turner Prize nominee and British representative at the 36th Venice Biennale, John Walker.
NEW PAINTING RESEARCH DISCUSSION LIST [5 september 2009]
To subscribe to the ‘painting research discussion list’, send an email to paintingresearch-request@freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject field (you will receive a ‘request received’ and a ‘subscribe confirmed’ with FAQ message)
Here’s some interesting drawing experiments and general browser experiments created for Google Chrome. Many of them work in Firefox and other browsers and there’s a couple of drawing ones (oddly one of the best is designed for Chrome but works in every other browser except Chrome!)
10 June – 31 July 2009. Centre for Recent Drawing, 2 - 4 Highbury Station Road, Highbury Islington, London. Open 12 - 6pm between Wednesday and Saturday.
CAMPAIGN FOR DRAWING,
POWER DRAWING COURSES [22 MAY 2009]
Book now for Power Drawing summer term courses for teachers, cultural educators, artists, community workers and more.
18 June 2009 Big Draw Training Course at mima – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
26/27 June, 14 July, 20 October 2009 (4 session course – with possibility of accreditation)
Learning through Drawing: a course for primary teachers at Birmingham City University
8 July 2009 Drawing across the Curriculum: Learning, engagement and enjoyment at The Manchester Museum
Further information on all these here and at the Campaign’s website
For further information about Fábrica Braço de Prata, a large cultural venue with 12 interactive spaces running daily concerts, exhibitions, performances, conferences, bars, a restaurant and a large bookshop, please go to: http://www.bracodeprata.com
DR EUGENIA FRATZESKOU - NEW WORK [22 MAY 2009]
Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou (London-based artist, educator, critic & researcher) is showing work at the Arsenale Novissimo in Venice during the 53rd Venice Biennale as part of the Rietveld Arsenale: The One Minutes Train.
Drawing inspired by philosopher Maxine Greene. As part of her doctoral studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, Andrea Kantrowitz has been working on a drawing installation inspired by the work of philosopher Maxine Greene. She welcomes feedback on the work.
'Autonomatic' the 3D Digital Production Research cluster at University College Falmouth are developing new research into the use of computer numerically controlled production technologies to create expressive drawings as ends in themselves and as part of the process of designing and making art, craft and design. You can see some of their recent work in this field on their webspace.
For more information contact either: Dr Katie Bunnell, Cluster Leader, Autonomatic, 3D Digital Production Research, Researchkatie.bunnell@falmouth.ac.uk, 01326 370497 or Dr Justin Marshall, Research Fellow, Autonomatic, 3D Digital Production Research, justin.marshall@falmouth.ac.uk, 01326 253689
NICHOLAS HUTCHESON: QUARRY [3 MAY 2009]
29th April – 17th May 2008 DICKERSON GALLERY MELBOURNE
OPENING NIGHT: WEDNESDAY 29th April 6- 8pm,
Dickerson Gallery, 44 Oxford Street, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia
Moving Patterns' is a drawing installation at the Royal Geographical Society showing from May 7th-May 21st. It bears witness to the way in which pattern and ornament are laden with meaning and memory in both colonial and post-colonial times and is produced by Helen Scalway, a visual artist based in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, as part of a large, long term interdisciplinary project, 'Fashioning Diaspora Space', with the Victoria & Albert Museum, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
New drawing research funded by Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.
John Atkin recently completed a period of Sabbatical Leave, funded by an Award from the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation, to explore a long standing interest in drawing.
Touch Drawing has been developed by Deborah Koff-Chapin since 1974. In this innovative drawing technique, the movement of fingertips on paper opens the way to direct creative expression. Deborah is an internationally known artist whose SoulCards 1&2 are sold worldwide The site has an online community for Touch Drawing Facilitators, images, articles, events and media to learn Touch Drawing.
See: www.touchdrawing.com
Contact info: www.touchdrawing.com/contact.html
All disciplines across the arts are welcome to apply
The successful artist will hold an Artists-in-Archaeology residency at Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum working on the Stonehenge archives. These collections comprise over 100,000 archaeological artefacts and c.4,000 artworks. Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum has DCMS Designated status recognising the national significance of it's archaeological collections. The successful candidate will receive a stipend of £1075.
Artists-in-Archaeology are a group of visual artists working alongside archaeologists on the Stonehenge Riverside Project excavations. The first exhibition of the group’s work took place at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester in 2008, with a further exhibition in planning for late 2009.This year artists in the group are following up leads commenced in their work over the past two years of site-based residencies.
Please forward the following:
a cv on no more than one page
up to 250 words describing your work in relation to Archaeology and the Arts and explaining what you would gain from and bring to the Stonehenge Project.
Six images of work or maximum two minutes of moving image / sound work
before April 20th to;
Leo Duff & Helen Wickstead, Kingston University London, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture,
Artists in Archaeology, Knights Park, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2QJ
Just published "The Smooth Guide to Travel Drawing, Um Suave Guia para o Desenho em Viagem" bilingual book, with foreword by Stefan Zinell, texts by Clive Dilnot, Susana Oliveira and Eduardo Corte Real.
You can buy it here (Note that "comprar" means "buy" and "cesto" means "basket". :-) Eduardo has created a blog to show further drawings.
Edited by Leo Duff and Phil Sawdon
ISBN 9781841502014 pb 169x224mm
Price £14.95
To clear their minds and organize their ideas, artists will often start projects by drawing. Drawing – The Purpose asks why artists and designers use drawing in this way to kick-start their creative thinking, considering the application of drawing and its various uses across disciplines. From the interdisciplinary perspectives of archaeology, jewellery design, illustration, and landscape architecture, this innovative volume highlights how drawing is used in the professional world. With examples from both contemporary and historical contexts, Drawing – The Purpose will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and scholars seeking a rationale for why we draw.
Drawing – The Purpose follows on from the book of essays, Drawing – The Process (Intellect, 2005) which investigated drawing as an interdisciplinary activity with historical and contemporary examples.
"Tablecloth for 10" (performative drawing in social situation) is a part of an exhibition "I walk the line: new Australian drawing" curated by Christine Morrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney. In this work I am archiving, by the process of drawing, a six hour dinner party to be held at the MCA. After the dinner, the table with its "tablecloth" on it, will be on display for the duration of the exhibition.
Exhibition: 17 March - 24 May 2009 at the MCA, Sydney, Australia
Exhibiting Artists: Vernon Ah Kee (QLD), Lionel Bawden (NSW), Sky Bivens (VIC), Kirsty Bruce (QLD), Eugene Carchesio (QLD), Sadie Chandler (VIC), Sharon Goodwin (VIC), Peter Grziwotz (VIC), Patrick Hartigan (NSW), Gordon Hookey (QLD), Jess Johnson (VIC), Locust Jones (NSW), Maria Kontis (ACT), Cassandra Laing (VIC) deceased, Richard Lewer (VIC), James Lynch (VIC), Gabriella and Silvana Mangano (VIC), Laith McGregor (QLD/VIC), Sebastian Moody (QLD), James Morrison (NSW) Dorota Mytych (VIC), Elvis Richardson (VIC), Vin Ryan (VIC), Tim Silver (NSW), John Turier (NSW), Michelle Ussher (VIC), John Vella (TAS), Gosia Wlodarczak (VIC)
Image: Gosia Wlodarczak "Tablecloth for 10", making first layer of drawing (2009); Photo: Longin Sarnecki
GRAPHIC DIARIES, PERSPICITY AND NEUTRALITY IN DAILY DRAWING [7 March 2009]
5 – 22 March 2009
Graphic Diaries, Perspicacity and Neutrality in Daily Drawing is a project by Eduardo Côrte-Real, taking place between the 5th and the 22nd of March, at Drawing Spaces. This project will exhibit 86 Graphic Diaries which the author has used for a decade to develop daily drawings. Each day a different selection of drawings will be displayed, which will provide the public with the opportunity to see more than one thousand observation drawings.
CONVERSATION (from the Shared Space series) by Gosia Wlodarczak [7 March 2009]
42 Mort Street Braddon ACT, Australia;
T 02 6257 8422; E helen@helenmaxwell.com;
Gallery hours: 11–5pm Tue — Sat
IMAGES [BELOW] - CLICK ON IMAGE TO ZOOM
top: Sharing situations, 26-28 February 2009 at Helen Maxwell Gallery; main image: Conversation (2009), the outcome of 14 situations, (performative drawing process in social situations; pigment marker, acrylic on linen). Photos: Longin Sarnecki
AIKON 2 PROJECT
launched at Goldsmiths, University of London [7 March 2009]
Why is it that the inexperienced person finds it so difficult to draw what they see so clearly, while an artist is able to do so often just with a few lines, in a few seconds? How can an artist draw with an immediately recognisable style, in a particular manner? And how, and why, can a few lines thrown spontaneously on paper be aesthetically pleasing?
The newly-revised Drawnet website is now on-line.
There are many new articles and examples of child art. Please visit at: http://drawnet.duetsoftware.net/
Prof. Bob Steele, Vancouver BC, Canada
Email - Bob Steele drawnet@shaw.ca
10th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, DIGITAL ART, aND ONLINE GALLERY [18 february 2009]
14, 15 - 17 July 2009, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. Call for Papers, Videos and Participation. Proceeding will be published by IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY. More info by downloading the 10th Symposium PDF OR visiting www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV09/DART.htm
Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, UK
18th January – 15th February 2009. More info by downloading the Drawing Room PDF and at the RWA website www.rwa.org.uk
HABITUS
Recent drawings by Michael Griffith [12 January 2009]
21 Jan - 21 Feb 2009, Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth University, UK
Bristol Drawing School
Drawing Interiors [10 December 2008]
Bristol Drawing School, Unit 5.3 Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol, BS4 3EH
Dates: 29th November 2008 - 21st December 2008
Times: 10am - 6pm
Admission: Free
Further Info: 0845 680 1409 or www.drawingschool.org.uk
Artists Fran Richardson and Ruth Wallace have different approaches to similar themes of absence in a domestic setting.
Concerned with the relationship between corporeal and psychological space, Fran’s drawings are a visual enquiry into our perceptual experience of the domestic interior. Central to the work is the role memory plays in eliciting the complex emotional responses that can cause our experience of the spaces we inhabit to become fluid and unstable, undermining reality to evoke a strange sensation of perceptual confusion.
Ruth makes large-scale drawings in charcoal, graphite and mixed media. Her recent work, which centres on portrayals of women’s clothing, explores the dichotomy between absence and presence and the homely and the disturbing in relation to the domestic interior. It also addresses issues connected with memory and female identity and is informed by the distinctive visual style of film noir.
Leo Duff and archaeologist Helen Wickstead invite you to view recent and current collaborative work which is about artists and archaeologists working together. The research arises from a shared interest in drawing.
See www.artistsinarchaeology.org
DRAWING SPACES [10 december 2008]
Desenho Livre and Chinese Whispers are two projects by Daniel Melim and Rachel Cohen running simultaneously at Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal from 3-21st December 2008.
ALL OVER THE PLACE:
Drawing Place, Drawing Space [22 November 2008]
A collaborative venture between LAND2 and the Drawing Research Group, University of Lincoln co-convened by Jayne Bingham and Judith Tucker. The framework and emphasis of the exhibitions, symposia and publication will be on the relationship between drawing and the theoretical understanding and phenomenological experiences of place.
T I M E
about space and place, about art at the edge [22 November 2008]
The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
from 27-Oct- 21 Nov 2008
Opening times: Mon-Fri 10-5 Sat 11-4
The project’s aim is to contribute to the ongoing support of local and minority ethnic artists living and working in London, by helping to raise the low profile of their collective achievements. More here
Julia Midgley
Colin Taylor
Judith Tucker
Claire Weetman
Directions in Drawing brings together four artists who are exploring the medium of drawing through a variety of materials and with quite diverse purposes and styles.
Thursday 23 October, 7pm
Artists talk in the gallery and drinks reception
Please join us for an informal talk by the Directions in Drawings artists.
Free event, refreshments will be served.
The Brindley,
High Street
Runcorn
WA7 1BG
Open Monday-Friday 10-4pm
Saturday 10-3pm
Closed Sundays
DRAWING ON LIFE
26 September – 28 September 2008 [15 September 2008]
'Drawing on Life', the interactive festival of drawing takes place from 26 to 28 September 2008. This free festival in London launches The Big Draw 2008 - a month of national drawing events.
More info from http://thebigdraw.org/
SIAN BOWEN: OF DUST
CHRISTOPHER JONES: IN-BETWEEN
10 September – 9 October 2008 [11 September 2008]
Daiwa Foundation
Japan House
13/14 Cornwall Terrace
London NW1 4QP.
Sue Lawty in association with the V&A. The World Beach Project is a global art project open to anybody, anywhere, of any age. It combines the simplicity of making patterns with stones with the complexities of shape, size, colour, tone, composition, similarity and difference.
Reverse graffiti artist Moose makes a big statement about clean in San Francisco's Broadway Tunnel. Shot by documentarian Doug Pray. For more information visit www.reversegraffitiproject.com
INTERSPATIALITY & DYSTOPIA [22 june 2008]
Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou
(London-based artist, educator, researcher. Member of the Leonardo Reviews Panel)
Download the Interspatiality & Dystopia .PDF overview
Exhibition: 1st - 9th November 2008
Lecture: 6th November 2008
DRAWING SUMMERSCHOOL @ KINGSTON UNI [22 june 2008]
You are invited to comment and or contribute text and images including the place & date of your story, with details of your name, city/town, and country to Yuen Fong Ling at romanbricks@yahoo.co.uk.
November (July deadline), Wolverhampton, UK. The 2nd ‘Drawing in the Digital’ one day-symposium is set to open the 5th Flip Animation Festival* in Wolverhampton UK, 6th - 8th November. Download the 'Drawing in the Digital' PDF for more details.
Drawings and paintings mapping journeys
through landscape and memory
Lighthouse Centre for the Arts Poole
1 Kingland Road, Poole Dorset, BH15 1HG
Tel. 0844 406 8666
Exhibition runs from 31 May – 5 July 2008
Opening times 10am – 8pm Monday – Saturday
Closed Sundays
Fiona Robinson won the University of Bath Painting Prize 2007 and was a prizewinner at the 4th International Biennale of Drawing, Melbourne, 2007, Australia. Catalogue available.
IN ADDIS ABABA? [9 june 2008]
New Show at The LeLa Art Gallery
