In 2002 Marc Renshaw determined to record and document results and statistics from The Sporting League – a conceptual football world that the artist claims has existed since 1985. ‘Bayerns’, ‘Tranquilayers’, ‘Universo Collunteen’,and ‘Novia’ may sound like international football teams but in fact belong to a fictional super league. Marc is currently exhibiting in Lincolnshire.

The Crocus Gallery is an artist-led, volunteer-run space based in Nottingham. We regularly host exhibitions of drawing including two which celebrate the Big Draw. We would invite you to vote for us in Natwest’s Community Force project where £6000 funding will help The Crocus Gallery fund future exhibitions and also invite you to attend our latest exhibitions.

Mark & Movement is an exhibition of drawings by Kate Smith, a visual artist with a focus exclusively on drawing and based in the UK. The work is currently being shown at Gallery Déda in Derby, England. The work reveals an individual moving through space and explores the differences between marks consciously made, and those which imply the presence of another.

Centre for Recent Drawing presents In Residence: Julio Lopez Tornel. During August the artist will be in the main gallery of C4RD making work towards a final exhibition at the end of the month. Lopez Tornel is currently completing his Doctorate in Drawing from the University of Valencia, and is currently with C4RD courtesy of the Da Vinci scholarship programme.

An exhibition of drawings by opens at the Derby Museum & Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby DE1 1BS on August 13th and will run until the 30th October 2011. The preview will take place on Friday August 12th at 5 -7 p.m.

Exhibition at the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts in Toronto, Canada displaying the work of David Griffin – an exhibition of drawing in which the artist develops a positive notation for a silent vocal music

A performance drawing installation took place at the third Singapore Biennale 2011 – featured 63 artists from 30 countries, was open to the public last March to May. Although you have missed the event you can still explore the exhibition here.

An exploration of the body through drawing by creative practitioners a London College of Fashion (University of the Arts, London) and The Swedish School of Textiles (Sweden). The exhibition that takes place in Stockholm and highlights the crucial role that, for students, researchers and practitioners, drawing plays within the creative thinking and the fashion design process. Exhibition begins runs from 28th April to 14th May 2011.

The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major retrospective exhibition of Jean-Watteau’s (1684-1721) drawings to be held in the UK. The exhibition contains over 80 works on paper produced by the French artist and takes place from 12th March to 5th June 2011.

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.