This event was the first in a series, bringing together the drawing research community, in the process of compiling the Handbook of Drawing Research. Drawing has had a resurgence in artists’ practices and the topic of drawing research has simultaneously gained recognition and significance. Drawing research defies definition and can be applied to a range of subjects, using various methodologies and engaging participants from a breadth of disciplines. This Symposium marks the beginning of our project, the Bloomsbury Handbook of Drawing Research. What is drawing research? This was a question that was highlighted by Garner (2008) when he asked ‘do we claim a distinct knowledge base? Is it an issue of approach or method or do we think about drawing differently?’ How do we answer the question what is drawing research in 2023? |
Photos by Ronan Grayson and DRG
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Gary Embury, Chloe Masi, Anouk Mercier, Lucy Ward
Introduction |
Joana P R Neves
Drawing as Research in and Beyond its Market |
Dr Joe Graham
Speculative Sketching: Deploying Harman’s OOO as an Analytical Drawing Methodology |
Katrin Ströbel
And What if Drawing is a Delicately Braided Rope of Anger, Love and Desire That Binds Us Together? |
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Leonard Shapiro
Anatomy observation using touch and drawing: the Haptico-visual observation and drawing (HVOD) method |
Dr Catherine Baker
Drawing Research at BCU |
Professor Matin Salisbury and Pam Smy
Drawing and University Research Culture: What Does it Mean? |
David Cortés Santamarta, Joana Badia, Diana Saldaña Alfonso
Thread is a line: Drawing as a method of research for women textile artists |
Kevin Mitchell
Discovering through Drawing: Forming the Foundation for Drawing as a Research Method |
Yamuna Ravindran
Re-drawing the boundaries of research: people based strategies for widening academic perspectives |
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Joana P. R. Neves (Independent curator and writer/ Director Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris, UK/France)
@joanaprneves joanaprneves.com Drawing as Research in and Beyond its Market In person presentation |
Yamuna Ravindran (Drawing Room, London, UK)
@drawingroom_ldn drawingroom.org.uk/library-research/ Re-drawing the boundaries of research: people based strategies for widening academic perspectives In person presentation |
Kelly Chorpening (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
@kellychorpening kellychorpening.com Water justice: drawing’s role in the convergence of disciplines and communities Online presentation |
David Cortés Santamarta (Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain)
ull.academia.edu/DavidCort%C3%A9sSantamarta portalciencia.ull.es/investigadores/190466/detalle Joana Badia (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France) and Diana Saldaña Alfonso (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) @royalcaballito royalcaballito.com Thread is a line: Drawing as a method of research for women textile artists Online presentation |
Joe Graham (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
aus.academia.edu/JoeGraham joegraham.net Speculative Sketching: Deploying Harman’s OOO as an Analytical Drawing Methodology Online presentation |
Ksenia Kopalova (Arts University Bournemouth, UK)
@ksenia.kopalova kseniakopalova.com and Paul Roberts (Arts University Bournemouth, UK) Echo’s Echoes - an ongoing exploration of how the spreading of AI affects perceptions of memory, digital archives and space documentation In person presentation |
Kevin Mitchell (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
aus.edu/faculty/kevin-mitchell Discovering through Drawing: Forming the Foundation for Drawing as a Research Method In person presentation |
Pr. Martin Salisbury (Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
@profmartinsalisbury amazon.co.uk/Martin-Salisbury/e/B004NBJ8DW/ref=aufs_dp_mata_dsk thamesandhudson.com/authors/martin-salisbury-63602 aru.ac.uk/people/martin-salisbury and Pam Smy (Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University) @pamsmyillustrator pamsmy.com Drawing and university research culture: What does it mean? In person presentation |
Leonard Shapiro (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
@leonard_shapiro lateralleap.co.za orcid.org/0000-0003-1362-8254 Anatomy observation using touch and drawing: the Haptico-visual observation and drawing (HVOD) method Online presentation |
Katrin Ströbel (ABK Stuttgart, Germany)
@katrinstroebel katrin-stroebel.de And what if drawing is a delicately braided rope of anger, love and desire that binds us to the world? Drawing as an emancipatory practice - a performative lecture In person presentation and performance |
Verity Winslow (Centre for Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK)
cfpr.uwe.ac.uk Robots and Drawing: A New Area of Drawing Research In person presentation and demonstration |
Dr Lynn Wray (School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK)
livingbodiesobjects.org Living Documents: Sequential Drawing as Pause and Progression In person presentation |