Drawing in between 2013: Futures

Associated Exhibi/on of Professional and Post Graduate Work

Ar/sts were selected for their demonstra/on of par/cularly flexible structures in their approach to drawing, transferrable to other areas and with poten/al for collabora/on.

Drawing and Dance Speaker at Event: Marega Palser Performance demonstrated how drawing and the simple use of mark making can affect the way movement can be created, and how dance, in turn, can affect the impulse to draw.

Drawing the Archive Wall Richard Cox Work demonstrated the efficiency of drawing as an archival tool recording >me, personal and cultural connec>vity

Drawing and Theory Natasha Mayo Work demonstrated through an interac>ve VLE how theore>cal posi>ons can be understood to underpin drawing prac>ces and inform their development.

Drawing Sound and Histories Speaker at Event: Cath Fairgrieves Paper en>tled ‘Draw to: a pre-­‐posi>on for teaching drawing’ discussed the poten>al for interdisciplinary approaches combining tradi>onal and computer technologies.

Drawing Percep/on and Memory Post Graduate Student: Celia Johnson Work demonstrated drawing and walking as a research methodology to map percep>on of place.

Drawing and Conversa/on; a Visual Dialogue Speaker at Event: Chris Glynn Paper En>tled ‘Drawing Across the Tracks’ discussed how ideas could be recorded and interpreted between disciplines

Drawing, Ceramics and Tex/les: A Collabora/on with Alice KePle Speaker at Event: Alex McErlain Paper en/tled: Drawing: Collabora>ons, Pairings and S>tch – demonstrated how conversa>ons have already successfully taken place between disciplines.

Drawing and Transla/on Post Graduate Student: Elodie Alexandre Work demonstrated how transla>on theories could be applied to the process of drawing and making.

Drawing and Drama Natasha Mayo Work demonstrated aspects of a Strategic Insight Project demonstra>ng the Social Poten>als of Crea>ve Thinking in Collabora>on with Valley and Vale Community Arts.

Drawing Phenomenology Post Graduate Student: Joanne Barlow Work demonstrated how drawing can enable explora>on of our posi>on in the world; how we shape our surroundings and how our surroundings shape us.

Drawing, Gesture and Space Speaker: Carolyn Bew Paper en>tled: Drawing as a Conceptual Problem Solving Strategy, discussed how understanding is not always the result of predic>ve means but the result of gesture, the ac>on of drawing and reflexive thought.

Drawing and Digital Print Sue Hunt Work demonstrated Hunt’s recent research into the historic silverpoint and chalk drawing processes of Leonardo Da Vinci held in the Queen’s collec>on at Windsor Castle.

Drawing and the Ac/vity of S/ch Spike Dennis Work en>tled: Synchronous Hermaphrodites’ demonstrates a re appropria>on of historic Dutch unicorn tapestries, aligning s>tch with the drawn mark, each piece is hand embroidered with coSon threads onto black linen-­‐mix fabric.

Drawing and Iden/ty Post Graduate Student: Helen Doherty Work demonstrated an explora>on of iden>ty; employing surface and form to ques>on where, in terms of our physical appearance, the ‘self’ can be said to reside.

Drawing and Reproduc/on Post Graduate Student: Gemma Dardis Work demonstrated historic photogram processes where not only the image is recorded through the transfer of light but the values of the materials being used. In this way, the image is never witnessed alone but rather accompanied by the narra>ve of its making.

Drawing and Walking Cathy Treadaway Work demonstrated drawings arising from an AHRC Connected Communi>es Project: Urban Flows; Connec>ons Shared Environments and Environmental Flows.

Drawing and Live Nota/on Speaker at Event: Andre S/P Paper discussed work by the ‘Live Nota>on Unit’: exploring programming as performance art, performance art nota>on as code, code as speech, bodies as interpreters.

Drawing Cross-­‐Disciplines Speaker at Event: Kyra Cane Paper discussed Cane’s publica>on ‘Making and Drawing’ exploring the ac>vity of drawing within the prac>ces of jewelry, sculpture, tex>les, furniture, installa>on and ceramics.

As with all research projects, we now move onto the next phase of iden/fying more explicitly from the material generated, the mechanisms and poten/al blueprints of how those prac/ces can be employed directly in collabora/on with other fields.