Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou’s recent articles on digital art, drawing, geometry and space are available in Digimag online journal for contemporary digital art. Digimag is part of Digicult an Italian platform created to spread digital art and culture worldwidd.
Combing film, photography, design text and interactive installation, the Urban Transcripts 2010 exhibition composes an alternative contemporary narrative of the city of Athens. The exhibition will be hosted at the Booze Cooperativa gallery in Athens from the 16th and till the 26th of December. For more information about the Urban Transcripts 2010 please read more.
In recognition and celebration of Steve’s 10 years at the wheel of the good ship Drawing Research Network (DRN), Derrick Welsh has produced a variety of drawings of portraits of Steve that can be viewed here…
Drawing Dialogues events include talks, seminars, workshops and conversation around drawing. Building upon the Drawing Dialogue project at QUAD in Derby last October 2010, the next initiative will take place in January 2011 at The Crompton in Derby. Find out more about this event please read on…
Sketchbooks are integral to the practice of Ortelius Drew (Doreen Wittenbols and Ilga Leimanis). They lead drawing groups in their respective cities (Amsterdam and London) and use sketchbooks to record, collect and process information. Two of these books will be on view in exhibition ‘The Moment of Privacy Has Passed’ at The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
Memory Cairns’ is a biodiversity project linking species memory, community and culture through drawing. Launched in 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, ‘Memory Cairns’ aims to bring awareness of locally endangered species through the activity of drawing to a community, creating connections between people, locations and species of either flora or fauna from around the world
The theme of this post relates to carving traditions that have influenced drawing . I reflect on traditional printmaking resources to these traditions, also within the structure of digital drawing perceptually . A mark as simple as a blaze has a new life in the new medium as a phenomenon.
From functional man-made objects, snow shoes and baskets to architectural structures such as brochs and standing stones. Oliver Reed presents a series of new works that conjures up “A sense of space, place and the marking of time”. Land Marks is about exploring the land, its geography, geology and history through drawings.
Drawing can be used in a number of ways and settings. From a pictogram that transcends language barriers, a visualisation of topography, an emotional response to words or thoughts and as a formal means of communication. Working drawings are the (sometimes instant) solution to many problems. Find out more about Working Drawings’ exhibition and conference in Sheffield.
In late 2008 British soldiers about to leave for Iraq are sketched by war artist, Xavier Pick, who spent the next six weeks with them. He was given exclusive 24-hour access to the troops, allowing him to make hundreds of drawings and sketches. Listen to his experiences reported on a Radio 4 radio programme via iPlayer.
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