Download a copy of Steve Garner’s ‘Drawing Book List’ here. The original list was published on the DRN forum and readers have shared their own favourites which have been incorporated into one list. If you wish to add to the list please add a comment or recommendation here.
On 08.02.10, In Events and Exhibitions, by Jennefer Hart
The power of drawing, as a stimulus to perception, creative thinking, imagination, communication, problem solving and visual planning will be explored through a variety of workshops over a weekend. This drawing weekend will take place at the University of Gloucester in Cheltenham from the 3rd to 5th September.
In construction techniques, after pinning the extremities of a thread with nails and covering the thread with a blue pigment, the line is BEATEN. It is in this act of BEATING (the) LINE where the momentum of drawing can be found. DRAWING SPACES Exhibition & Residency between architect João Palla, designer/photographer Pedro do Ó and constructor/photographer João d’Olivença -currently taking place from 29th to 31st July.
The DRN 2010 Conference is open for advance bookings. Early-bird tickets are now available for a special rate of £25 to arrive before August 31st 2010. After this date tickets will only be available on the door at the cost of £40. To find out more please read more…
On 07.15.10, In Events and Exhibitions, by Jennefer Hart
C4RD (Centre for Recent Drawing) presents the work of Marco Calí as part of an ‘Online Residency Programme’. For the month of August 2010, Calí will create drawings based on the 1959 film, Tiger Bay. Drawing with ink on three sheets of tracing paper, he will recreate scenes from the film, as still-life of a fictional scene of a past moment.
The Campaign for Drawing has one aim: to get everyone drawing! Why? Drawing helps us think, invent and communicate – regardless of age and ability. Details of the forthcoming BIG DRAW event due to take place this October can now be found on the Campaign for Drawing website. Find out how to join in an event by reading more…
On 06.24.10, In Events and Exhibitions, by Jennefer Hart
A series of guerrilla pop-up drawing events through Islington in London are due to take place from 25th June to 4th July. The sessions will feature a range of activities in unusual spaces: from the top of a bus to a shopping arcade, and the programme will culminate in an event at Islington Museum as part of Cubitt People’s Republic: a major exhibition of work exploring community, democracy, creative freedom and Islington’s radical past.
On 06.22.10, In Events and Exhibitions, by Jennefer Hart
A exhibition of Agnes Martin’s work is currently showing at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge. The paintings in this exhibition are from her later years when bands of ethereal colour combined with the irregularities of hand-drawn grids. “The paintings are very far from perfect – completely removed in face – even as we ourselves are.”
On 06.21.10, In Events and Exhibitions, by Jennefer Hart
There are two forthcoming drawing events taking place at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge (UK). These include a lecture by Professor Deanna Petherbridge on the 29th June and a panel discussion taking place on 1st July. These events will be of interest to those with an interest in film, photography, performance, dance, anthropology, as well as the language of drawing.
On 06.21.10, In Events and Exhibitions, by Jennefer Hart
This in-depth exploration of the symbolic, perceptual and imaginative language of drawing is open to all artists, designers, teachers of art and others, keen to extend their knowledge of the expressive and analytical tools of drawing and of the strategies of the sketchbook. The workshop and discussions will be led by the artist and art historian Glenn Sujo.
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