Symposium: What is Drawing Research?
3 November 2023 at Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University
The Symposium was accompanied by an exhibition at Birmingham School of Art. Please see here for more details.
The Symposium was accompanied by an exhibition at Birmingham School of Art. Please see here for more details.
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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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Video Recordings from the Symposium
A few of the recordings are not available due to image and research permissions. If you would like more details, please get in touch.
Session 1
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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? |
Session 2
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Leonard Shapiro
Anatomy observation using touch and drawing: the Haptico-visual observation and drawing (HVOD) method |
Session 3
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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 |
Session 4
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Yamuna Ravindran
Re-drawing the boundaries of research: people based strategies for widening academic perspectives |
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Keynote Speakers
Joana P R Neves
portrait credit: Grégoire Avenel - Agence Coolhuntparis
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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
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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 |
Isabel Seligman
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Isabel Seligman (British Museum, London, UK)
Emergence: researching emerging drawing practice In person presentation |
Contributors
Kelly Chorpening
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Kelly Chorpening (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
@kellychorpening kellychorpening.com Water justice: drawing’s role in the convergence of disciplines and communities Online presentation |
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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 |
David Cortés Santamara
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Joana Badia
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Diana Saldaña Alfonso
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Joe Graham
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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 |
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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 |
Ksenia Kopalova
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Paul Roberts
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Kevin Mitchell
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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 |
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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 |
Pr Martin Salisbury
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Pam Smy
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Leonard Shapiro
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
Exhibition
The Symposium will be accompanied by an exhibition at Birmingham School of Art. Please see here for more details.