The Drawing Research Network has a brand new website with many new and useful tools for keeping connected with members. In this first article we take a look at some of the interesting features on offer and how you can use them.
Strings, a dance-drawing performance conceived by Austrailian visual artist Rochelle Haley and performed by dancers of Rimbun Daham, from Ballatbase, ASWARA. It took place on Saturday 23rd January 2010 at the the Actors Studio in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. It provides insights into new ways to produce art and movment. You can watch a video of the performance here.
SARAH LEDERMAN presents her Work-in-Progress at the Centre for Recent Drawing in London, as part of the Residents Artist Programme. Lederman’s paintings and drawings hone in upon the awkwardness and discomfort of adolescence and the conflicting states of innocence and sexual awareness. Delicately layered pencil and paint lends a delicate fragility to the subjects depicted.
- THREE A DAY DRAWINGS – THREE DRAWINGS BY DAY –
– By ANDY KRAFT –
Each day Andy Kraft adds three drawings online to create a poetic diary. These drawings include writings of his daily observations and dreams. This is the 3DAD Project that was launched at the beginning of 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of Fine and Studio Art (JFSA) is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published approximately one month after acceptance.
- DRAWING IN A WIDER SCOPE –
- DRAWING IN AN EXPANDED FIELD –
There is a new drawing blog from Department of Art’s Painting and Drawing within the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. This new blog brings together information within the field of drawing along with some elements of the theory of drawing.
There are a variety of drawing experiments and tools on the web designed to impress you [Fractal 4D, String Spinner], amuse you [Line Rider, Wordle] or assist you in your daily business tasks [Imagination Cubed, E2Vector]. Find out more about some of these by clicking on the title – get drawing, collaborating and displaying your work to the world.
DRAWING OUT is a trans-disciplinary conference. It explores drawing across the boundaries of disciplines. It addresses drawing as a way of thinking and communicating in the twenty-first century. Whoever we are, drawing is part of our everyday and professional lives. This event takes place in Melbourne Austrailia from 7th to 9th April 2010.
The University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery’s opening exhibition for 2010 is a first for the UK; an exhibition of art to instruct, a project of rich, diverse imagery and unusual juxtaposition. In 2004 Talbot Rice presented the exhibition Object Lessons where the use of the object in teaching and research was explored. Drawing for Instruction can be viewed almost as a sister project with the thinking process of drawing as our subject.
The Annual DRN Conference takes place at the University of Brighton on the 14th September 2010. The conference invites proposals for research posters around this year’s theme: ‘Observation, Mapping, Dialogue’. Deadline for submission of posters is Friday, 9th April 2010.
The Burton Art Gallery and Museum in North Devon is hosting a Drawing Symposium called ‘Why is Drawing Important?’ Run in conjunction with Petroc School of Art, it explores why it is important to celebrate drawing. It coincides with the ‘Jerwood Drawing Prize 2009′ exhibition which is on display at the Burton Art Gallery from 4th March to the 9th April 2010.
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