DRAWING GROUND
THE 2023 THINKING THROUGH DRAWING SYMPOSIUM
Friday 29th September - Sunday 1st October 2023
ONLINE & IN-PERSON
In a spirit of hope, healing and imagination, we will explore the theme of Drawing Ground at our annual symposium.
We are collaborating with TtD members from around the world, in person and online, to explore:
We look forward to drawing together again
The TtD Board
Engaging drawing as fertile ground for research, reflection and advocacy for the environment.
Live local drawing workshops around the world, recorded drawing workshops, artist talks, interviews with Drawers, presentations, collaborative drawing sessions.
Sticking with our successful hybrid model, the symposium will encompass local in-person workshops, as well as online workshops, presentations, and discussion forums. In-person workshops will be streamed live when possible, and recorded.
Live local drawing workshops around the world, recorded drawing workshops, artist talks, interviews with Drawers, presentations, collaborative drawing sessions.
Sticking with our successful hybrid model, the symposium will encompass local in-person workshops, as well as online workshops, presentations, and discussion forums. In-person workshops will be streamed live when possible, and recorded.
2021 TtD Symposium
Unlocking - Rethinking through Drawing
SATURDAY 23 October 2021
with a week of live and recorded workshops 18-22 October
A week has passed since the unlocking symposium. I have been dreaming more. My heart has softened and my perceptions are transforming. I perceive the world around me a bit differently when I walk on the street; different lines, different feelings, different plants whispering, trying to give messages, more clues, more vivid.....
Yes, the Unlocking Week seems like it is still unlocking hidden locks ....
Reiko, Unlocking participant
Yes, the Unlocking Week seems like it is still unlocking hidden locks ....
Reiko, Unlocking participant
If you missed Unlocking, you can still access the recordings of workshops, artists' talks, presentations and discussions.
For the Key to Unlocking please donate £30 and you will receive the set of keys to unlock 38 videos of sessions and the Unlocking interactive Miro board. Please e-mail brewdrawing@gmail.com for the keys.
For the Key to Unlocking please donate £30 and you will receive the set of keys to unlock 38 videos of sessions and the Unlocking interactive Miro board. Please e-mail brewdrawing@gmail.com for the keys.
Please read this wonderful review of Unlocking!
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My Story of the Unlocking Week Reiko Shimizu A few days before the symposium I was bitten and almost killed by a small wolf in the woods. It happened in a tiny village many miles away from where I live. It was dark at night. It was literally a traumatic experience. A nightmare. I was not sure whether it was okay to be present in the symposium or not. My whole body was still trembling. The first day of the unlocking symposium I participated rather impulsively. There I saw a female figure locked in my heart then. She looked like a goddess at first but as I observed closely, she looked more like a little simple girl, with colourful flowers on her hair, smiling quietly. A morning after a warm yellowish light filled up the unknown space. The light was from my past dream, illuminating the present. In the yellowish light, I was embraced by everyone who was present. After enjoying being still in the yellowish light, I started exploring the air around my body. Sometimes pushing it and other times pulled by the volume of it. Then I realized that I was tracing my movement with invisible lines in the air. Yes, it was like a dance. It was very spontaneous. I felt like being released like a small fish trapped in a net just getting released into the vast ocean. After being released in the air, I have found a game I could play. The game asked me to go through a series of challenges. The first challenge was to drink my trauma and the next challenge was to experience it psychologically and then physically, synchronizing with my own breathing to get it out. I don't even want to describe my experience from the first two challenges but once I vomited it all onto the drawing paper then to water afterwards, it was a very peaceful thing to see. A surprise! My vomit dissolved into the water and as a result, a mysterious, attractive black seed emerged. Within a few hours the seed had cracked and a flower bloomed. I holded it in my palms. I was not sure whether to burn this black flower away or not but in the end I decided to keep it for a while. Holding uncertainty in my heart I embraced myself warmly. I have accepted the decision. Next morning, I woke up embraced by huge hands. They were cosmic hands. Then I started to hear cosmic sounds swimming through the air smoothly and gently. My voice spontaneously started to swim through together with the cosmic sounds, trying to harmonize, trying to tune in, listening and searching. I suddenly realized that I was singing along with others. It was not yet a melody, like a melody in a womb. Such a joyful way to sing! That night I tried to find things to be grateful for that day. It was a suggestion from a dream fairy but the only thing I felt was my heart hardening. So, I did my prayer as usual and went to sleep with my saints in my heart. It was dark when I woke up the next day. I was touching objects in the dark. It felt insecure and too adventurous to go on drawing in such a way. In order to draw in total darkness, I needed to learn to trust the sensation that I was seeing through my hands. Then I remembered about the students from Blind Boys School I was working with just before the pandemic. How they trust the world and how they trust themselves, I remembered. Yes, here the key I have got that might be useful for unlocking was “to trust”. With the key “to trust” in my pocket , I was led to a question, “So, what does the word 'purpose' mean to me....? For some reasons, I didn’t like the word ‘purpose’. I had no idea what it meant to me. But feeling the key “to trust” in my pocket, I was drawing a pot filled up by bright light and it was coming out, illuminating its surroundings. Was it what ‘purpose’ meant for me? It was beautiful. Divine looking. With this light I went see through over the pandemic year. A path was leading towards the inner spiral. Inner and inner, sometimes crossing the previous path but always inner till I reach the very center. Different colours appear every here and there. A violent fire flame appeared as well as a scary face. I contemplated looking over the whole path and in the end I decided to embrace the whole thing with acceptance. Yes, the cosmic hands emerged here again! It seemed like that was the only solution to keep on going. It felt good, strong and warm. Then it was play time! Masking tapes play time! Making lines here and there, dot over another dot, over and over again, tearing and placing.... How fun it was to see the transparency of the tapes overlapping and 3D-ness of it coming out here and there. I felt totally loosened up. It was interesting how different other people play with the same material. And how I wished to play together in the same physical space with other people on the other side of the zoom. |
Following my own breathing, tracing the feeling of the water with my right hand, then tracing the feeling of air with my left hand, and tracing the mood of the earth with my feet, It was a very refreshing experience. I felt much more secure than tracing the touching sensations with lines blindly a day before. I was blind this morning as well but I enjoyed it much more. I wonder if it was breathing that went along while drawing made the experience so comfortable. Looking at all these unexpected, rather spontaneous lines and marks delighted my heart.
Feeling my heart delighted, I was slowly led from very recent memory to my very early childhood memory. As I traced back my memories with drawings I was amazed to see how much details were kept in my memory. The more I draw the more details come to the present consciousness. The act of drawing was bringing back memories that have been kept over years. Along with the physical details, I started to remember the feelings as well. I was totally in my childhood when I started to listen to a verbal description of the landscape. It was such a pleasing experience. It was like listening to a good night story in a cosy bed, half way asleep. Perhaps rather a daydream? A halfway there and here, a kind of threshold, a dreamy mood I was led to. Yes, the little girl was unlocked in my heart then. Flowers on her hair, smiling quietly, dreaming peacefully. With a little girl, I found my forgotten aloe plant in the hidden corner of the veranda. Yes, my aloe is one of the few nature there is in this apartment. I brought this aloe about 10 years ago and the only thing I have ever done for her was to replant when she started to grow out of the original pot. Poor aloe...I only was going to her when I needed her jelly, otherwise I never even looked at her. And what a fascinating experience I had when I started to draw her. She was not all spiky and scratchy as I thought. The more I looked and the more I drew, I started to perceive her whispering. All the leaves were whispering to each other sweetly and quietly. At the same time they were dancing harmoniously and gracefully. They were communicating to each other through movement in a very delicate mannar and some of them were even reaching towards me. She was so alive, full of life energy. She was whispering to me all these years quietly but I never cared to listen. How patient and beautiful plants are. How generous! I was very touched by my aloe plant. I felt a little awakened to the plant world. I started to remember how vividly I used to see the world when I was a child. Yes, the sense that has been locked was unlocking. Then I realized that I was in the middle of many many drawings I have done this week. The act of drawing was like a cleansing process. A cleansing from the nightmare I have experienced in the woods. As a sweet curly hair fairy has mentioned drawing as a way of “not to think”, I experienced it vividly. I did not want to get caught up in the nightmare nor be paranoid thinking about it and to do drawing was a way to not to be caught. But it was different from escaping. It was as if the traumatic experience was drawn away little by little along with the unlocking process. It felt very healing. A week has passed since the unlocking symposium. I have been dreaming more. My heart has softened and my perceptions are transforming. I perceive the world around me a bit differently when I walk on the street; different lines, different feelings, different plants whispering, trying to give messages, more clues, more vivid..... Yes, the Unlocking Week seems like it is still unlocking hidden locks .... |
The 2021 Thinking through Drawing symposium
hashtags: #ttd #unlock #rethink #draw
Recordings of live drawing events during the week 18-22 October, and the online symposium on Saturday 23rd October 2021
In a spirit of hope and regeneration, we are excited to explore the theme of Unlocking at our annual TtD symposium.
How will our communities unlock and open up? How will we confront injustices and crimes against the earth?
Our TtD 2021 hybrid symposium will provide space for us to converse and connect about drawing’s power as a tool to rethink through drawing, to chronicle, confront, conceive and contribute to unique opportunities for rethinking and unlocking, presented by our passions, hopes and fears.
We collaborated with TtD members from around the world, in person and online, to explore:
How to unlock our HIDDEN DRAWERS, how to unlock ourselves and the world from Covid trauma; how to heal; how to breath freely; how to save our breath; how to unlock emotions and blocks to expression.
Our hybrid model combines local live workshops held around the world and global online get-togethers. As usual, the focus is on sharing innovative and diverse drawing practices across fields, formats and platforms. We continue our TtD exploration of How to Unlock your Hidden Drawer, with a wonderful selection of workshops and presentations selected from our open call, relating to Unlocking through Drawing.
For 2021 Thinking Through Drawing are collaborating with Indiana University Southeast US and SUNY New Paltz US.
We look forward to drawing together again
The TtD Board
WORKSHOPS - please see taster videos and info below
We selected more than 20 workshops, presentations and performances from our open call. Some were LIVE online during the week before the symposium, while some were prerecorded, available online for participants.
We selected more than 20 workshops, presentations and performances from our open call. Some were LIVE online during the week before the symposium, while some were prerecorded, available online for participants.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL SCHEDULE
for the build up week and THE SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM
Schedule - ALL TIMES ARE UK (GMT+1) with local times also listed
Saturday 23rd October
10am - 12 noon UK GMT+1 Drawing Together - Collaborative drawing LIVE ONLINE
12 noon - 5.30pm UK GMT+1 LIVE ONLINE Show and Tell panels, with the workshop leaders and presenters
...and around these core times the TtD ZOOM ROOM will be open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together.
1am - 10am UK GMT+1 - TtD ZOOM ROOM open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together
5.30pm - 12 Midnight UK GMT+1- TtD ZOOM ROOM open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together.
for the build up week and THE SATURDAY SYMPOSIUM
Schedule - ALL TIMES ARE UK (GMT+1) with local times also listed
Saturday 23rd October
10am - 12 noon UK GMT+1 Drawing Together - Collaborative drawing LIVE ONLINE
12 noon - 5.30pm UK GMT+1 LIVE ONLINE Show and Tell panels, with the workshop leaders and presenters
...and around these core times the TtD ZOOM ROOM will be open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together.
1am - 10am UK GMT+1 - TtD ZOOM ROOM open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together
5.30pm - 12 Midnight UK GMT+1- TtD ZOOM ROOM open for participants around the world to meet up, share drawings and draw together.
Prerecorded and recorded content AVAILABLE TO TiCKET HOLDERS NOW - you will be sent access code on purchase of your ticket
Construct, De-construct Sarita Chouhan
Bending, Closely, Breaking, Round Elizabeth Leister
Unlocking a remembrance of place Jenny Wright
Tervahartiala, Marika A pre-recorded slightly academic but yet inspirational 14mins presentation about one ongoing autoethnographical research process about drawing, with drawing and by drawing.
Swarming
The Vienna Drawing Class: Drawing NOW
We will contribute a live online collaborative drawing setting, using colorillo.
Students from the seminar "Drawing Now" will perform a digital collaborative drawing session via the online Platform Colorillo. The minimalist setting will be as follows: A selected verbal text will be reflected - copied - online by active drawers to emphasize the fragility of digital drawings.
The annual seminar "Drawing Now" is directed by Gert Hasenhütl at the University of applied Arts Vienna. The seminar addresses current theories on manual drawing, and examines drawing by hand in times of digitalization.
Participants can observe the process or join in actively by logging on at: https://colorillo.com/
The Vienna Drawing Class: Drawing NOW
We will contribute a live online collaborative drawing setting, using colorillo.
Students from the seminar "Drawing Now" will perform a digital collaborative drawing session via the online Platform Colorillo. The minimalist setting will be as follows: A selected verbal text will be reflected - copied - online by active drawers to emphasize the fragility of digital drawings.
The annual seminar "Drawing Now" is directed by Gert Hasenhütl at the University of applied Arts Vienna. The seminar addresses current theories on manual drawing, and examines drawing by hand in times of digitalization.
Participants can observe the process or join in actively by logging on at: https://colorillo.com/
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Unlock Dreamings
Beatriz Acevedo When we spend almost half of our lives sleeping, dreams have a life on their own and they can be a potential source of wisdom. Alas, we rarely are able to unlock their power. This series of short workshops aims at connecting us with the power of dreams through drawings. Everyday from Monday to Thursday we will meet in the morning (switching between UK / NY morning time) to unlock our dreaming intelligence. Beatriz will guide us on how to make the best of dreams, with simple techniques for a better night sleeping and tips to remember those elusive streams of unconsciousness. Beatriz draws upon her own practice of dreaming, with some ideas from Jung’s approach to dreaming, and this is part of her ongoing purpose of encouraging people to live a beautiful life. |
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Construct, De-construct
Sarita Chouhan As we go inward what unfolds, we meet and we intersect and with us words, thoughts, sounds, scribbles, lines meet, join together and intersect. We construct, deconstruct not looking out for definite meaning here, not to look for beginning or end but to be present in the moment as a community, as a gathering to draw together. So let us come together with sheets of paper, anything to draw- pencils, pens, charcoal, ink or colours and ourselves. |
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Reflecting Through Drawing in collaboration with Access at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Pamela Lawton LIVE IN PERSON WORKSHOP Monday October 18th 2 PM EST at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Draw in a museum setting and experience a perceptual and psychic shift in relationship to the artworks there. Deepen your connection with works of art that focus on healing as you draw. Through tactile experiences and mark-making, explore each artwork’s perspective on wellbeing particular to its place or origin and belief system. Notice the relationship between color and texture in materials and their impact on our engagement with each artwork. Buddhist art, Modern Art and Renaissance Decorative arts will be included. This workshop is for people with any level of sight. This workshop is limited to 15 people. Early registration is suggested. To register, please contact pamela@pamelalawton.com. Art supplies are provided. |
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Reflecting Through Drawing in the Conservatory Garden Pamela Lawton LIVE IN PERSON WORKSHOP Tuesday October 19th 2 PM EST2 PM EST at NYC Central Park Exploring the North French Garden of the Conservatory Garden in Central Park, we will connect to nature as artful design, cultivated from within our urban surroundings. We will use the senses of touch, sound, smell, movement and sight to draw in color responding to different stimuli from within the natural and constructed spaces we inhabit. This workshop is for people with any level of sight. This workshop is limited to 15 people. Early registration is suggested. To register, please contact pamela@pamelalawton.com. Art supplies will be provided. |
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Anthi Kosma, Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, PhD, DEA ETSA de Madrid
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Listen to your hand-heart
Anthi Kosma LIVE drawing workshop in a locality in Greece with students of architecture school of University of Thessaly. The recording will be available. Listen to your "hand-heart". What if hands were free to trace, without any judgement, as they feel, we could listen to their "voice"? If free-hands movements can draw aisthesis of our inner self then drawing can be perceived as musical scores, the transcript of the body's inner voices, hidden desires, agonies and its traumatized unlocked parts. Draw by listening to an internal reference. With no need to represent a given world but with the intention to "look" inside and link with self expression and its needs. |
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Bending, Closely, Breaking, Round
Elizabeth Leister Bending, Closely, Breaking, Round is the presentation of a 360° video of a drawing performance - a unique perspective on building a drawing through physical movement in space. A charcoal drawing is performed on the floor and recorded with a 360 camera. When the video is experienced inside of a VR headset or on a mobile phone, the audience senses that they are inside the drawing, observing marks being made by a body all around them. This immersive experience unlocks the flat 2D limitation of a traditional drawing and creates a sense of embodied presence during the act of mark-making. |
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In Person sessions take place in Irvine California outside. Please let your California fellow drawers know!
Contact me with questions or to book at: 917-880-8405 or lutz.deborah@gmail.com deborahlutz-art.com Lutz.Deborah@Instagram |
Drawing with Tape Deborah Lutz ONLINE & IN PERSON Using a roll of masking tape as a drawing tool will challenge your reliance on ability and skill. Instead, the material determines how you feel and find your way into the drawing, pulling a continuous line of tape as you draw. If allowed, the tape lines will amass and build up the drawing surface; they will turn rather than round corners, they will twist creating linear nuances, the tape may shred or tear in places. Being an unwieldly drawing tool, the nature of tape will guide the structure of the drawing. Large paper and a roll of 1” masking is all you need. Drawing to Verbal Description Deborah Lutz ONLINE & IN PERSON By relying on verbal description rather than sight to perceive subject matter, the pressure of ‘seeing to know’ in order to ‘draw what you know’ will fall away. Likewise, regarding and responding to the developing drawing will be also be abandoned. Instead, your non-sighted perception of both the subject matter and your drawing will come together over time in response to the words as you notice them, the cadence and pitch changes of description, the sound of a drawing hand, the nature of materials, the perimeter and feel of a drawing surface. Your drawing will coalesce accordingly as you experience these. Large paper and a variety of less familiar drawing tools are encouraged. |
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A Point in Time
Maggie Nowinski Long rolls of wide paper, unfurled on the ground. Along the center axis, single dots, six feet apart. Participants stand on a dot and have an hour to draw continuously, reaching out to investigate the space around them. A common set of drawing media is provided to each participant (ink/charcoal/brushes on sticks so they can stand, reach, draw). Every 5 minutes a new audio/soundscape prompt – 12 prompts reflecting 12 months, a nod to a year as an extended point in time (in this case reflecting 2020). An exploration of mark-making as a record of individual and collective presence. Establishing a territory of personal space, intermingling through mark making with those adjacent to us, we create a single drawing. |
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Drawing Yoga: Inhabiting Drawings for self-enquiry
Dr Curie Scott Title: Drawing Yoga: Inhabiting Drawings for self-enquiry Facilitator: Dr Curie Scott Duration 45minutes Format LIVE Online workshop (zoom) Date Monday 18th 11.00 UK time Facilitator: Dr Curie Scott Role Education consultant | Somatic coach | Drawing researcher This workshop will contain both recorded and live input and is interactive. You only share what you want to. It will be recorded. Drawing Yoga develops drawing techniques from my PhD research and my new book. You’ll inhabit a felt sense of knowing by drawing around your body. Globally, we’ve been shaken. COVID-19 has caused ruptures or disjunctures in our lives. Many of us became fixed to our immediate location due to lockdowns. Many of us had to change. |
Do join me in this experimental Drawing Yoga workshop. We’ll do some centring (mindful) techniques and then work from and through the body. You’ll need a quiet space with enough room to draw around your body with your arms in a sitting and lying position. You can choose to use gestures to make invisible drawings or draw onto large sheets of paper on the floor for physical drawings. You will need to move your body freely without causing pain.
I’ve spent time experimenting with how to embody drawings. I move, draw into the sand and inhabit the drawings. This ‘Drawing Yoga’ allowed ‘knowing’ to move from head-knowledge to a bodily felt experience. This workshop builds on drawing techniques in my new book for Drawing for Health and Wellbeing. Out for pre-order now & 30% off with the code ‘ARTS’ https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Drawing/?k=9781838673284&pl=1&loc=uk |
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Rethinking Drawing Games
Beatriz Albuquerque Are you up to the challenge? Unlock and open up with drawing games. Drawing games can be used as a tool to confront injustice and violence. How do you unlock yourSelf and the world from trauma? Do you want to rethink how to heal and how to breathe freely? Join us for this hybrid workshop both on-line access and in-person participation available. |
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Drawing helps me nurture my imagination and free association in movement. I have been exploring drawing as a tool for unlearning and freeing the body and mind of ritualistic ties.
A body and a drawing by it -entails a body’s movement, rituals and social conditioning. Materials Required: Space 10 X 6 feet A large sheet of paper (approx. 4ft) Any drawing materials you like working with / holding / touching |
Unlearning Ferwa Ibrahim Date: Oct 18 -22, 2021 Time: 9:00am (UK, GMT +1) Session Duration: 40 minutes Open to all (registration required) ferwaibrahim@gmail.com I am offering a ritual unlearning workshop where participants draw every day for the course of this symposium. I feel that understanding of one’s own body and its becoming can only be achieved by practicing deep meditation. The workshop is built on different drawing exercises inspired by Authentic Movement and Automatic Drawing. The exercises also draw upon Carl Gustav Jung’s method of active imagination to invite free association in movement. Through this we hope to research if drawing every day can lead to the development of new impulses and movements of the body. Also, if the development of kinaesthetic awareness through drawing can lead to rethinking the movements and rituals previously known to the body. We hope to create, “… moments of total awareness, -the coming together of what I am doing and what is happening to me”. Mary Whitehouse. |
Find a clearer picture of your purpose
Tim Hamons
As creative leaders, how can we identify a more empowering personal narrative to move us past complexity and uncertainty into clarity and understanding? Industries and individuals are being challenged to reinvent. The questions of purpose: who we are, why we are here, how can I best serve, become invitations to reimagine. In this interactive visual workshop, I will share with you tools, stories, and a framework to re-imagine your purpose using the power of simple hand drawn pictures.
In this session, you will:
- Learn how to create a simple visual model to anchor your purpose
- Create a dynamic visual map of your next 6 months personal and professional journey
- Learn fundamentals of visual storytelling
TIME & DATE TBC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhamons/
Unlocking/rethinking (beauty) through drawing: the medium is the message (skin as paper and/or paper as skin)
Lucie Russell / Drawing People Together
LIVE on SUNDAY 17th OCTOBER 1pm -5pm UK GMT+1 (Drop in with limited space) in the Gallery at Holdrons Arcade 135a Rye Lane Peckham SE15 4ST
We will draw, talk and collage about beauty as a construct, deconstructing and reconstructing images of normative beauty ideals. Considering the recuperation of reappropriated images. And experimenting with the notion of glamour as enchantment, and exploring the magic of what beauty could become…
Lucie Russell / Drawing People Together
LIVE on SUNDAY 17th OCTOBER 1pm -5pm UK GMT+1 (Drop in with limited space) in the Gallery at Holdrons Arcade 135a Rye Lane Peckham SE15 4ST
We will draw, talk and collage about beauty as a construct, deconstructing and reconstructing images of normative beauty ideals. Considering the recuperation of reappropriated images. And experimenting with the notion of glamour as enchantment, and exploring the magic of what beauty could become…
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Unlocking our Memories
Emma Strangwayes-Booth LIVE ONLINE Join me for this 60 minute workshop where we will draw images from our past to help us better understand our motivations in the present and free ourselves from creative blocks. Using specific techniques like automatic drawing as well as word triggers and visualisations, I will help you access your subconscious by drawing your memories. Using any size paper and easily accessible mediums like graphite, colouring pencil, pen and ink or water based paint, I will lead you on a healing journey through your unconscious mind. Looking forward to seeing you there! |
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PRESENTATIONS & PERFORMANCES
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Unlocking a remembrance of place
Jenny Wright As lockdown lifts I have been able to use drawing as a vehicle to unlock memories with someone experiencing dramatic shifts in perception of time and space as a result of Alzheimer’s disease. In my presentation I give examples of how drawing can be used as part of an empathic dialogue; an affirming action, where thoughts and ideas are resolved and anxieties calmed. Drawings do not conform to conventional linearity of time, can be part of a documentation of fluctuating ‘then and now’, ‘here and not here’, supplementing and supporting visual imagery in photographs and digital technologies. |
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Work in Process
TOUCH BAR Drawing out the invisible
Anna Väisänen & Emma Fält
LIVE Stream from Gallery Ars Libera, Kuopio, Finland
1PM-5PM Live stream
TOUCH BAR is a concept and space that explores softness, descent, and dialogue between people and objects. The work is an experimental series of one-on-one encounters that explore contact without physical contact and between artists the physicality of it. Various artifacts are used as instruments of touch, which Fält & Väisänen will study during their working period. In TOUCH BAR artists will create a space where you stop to listen, sensitize the senses, create a common ritual, explore touch, look and, through looking, find an opportunity to touch or become touched. Handshake, hug, encouraging pressure on the shoulder. We have lived in a world where we greet acquaintances and strangers with a touch. The coronavirus pandemic has completely changed the culture of contact. At the moment, touching is not allowed, it is feared and even horrified. How much touch is needed in everyday situations in life? How significant a part has it been in our lives? What are the effects of not being able to touch each other? Touch creates basic security for people, it comforts, empowers. In a safe space and environment, it can have healing effects, touch brings people together, it cares and nurtures. Touch evokes the imagination, it can bring back memories, it allows you to travel through the imagination to another time and place.
Finnish artists, freelance dancer Anna Väisänen & and multidisciplinary artist Emma Fält are currently working on a larger Live - art project that is mapping utopias and investigating the power of dreaming and imagination. During the time of the TtD - symposium we will be investigating our boundaries and possibilities in active and empathic listening through drawing, touch, sound and movement in a local gallery in Kuopio, Finland. By using novel sound interfaces for musical expression, we will be creating a soundscape from human touch with a special midi controller, microphones and live processing of the sound. Our work will be durational and the viewer can visit different scenarios and working methods during the 4 hour long session. We will be sharing the scores we use for anyone interested.
TOUCH BAR Drawing out the invisible
Anna Väisänen & Emma Fält
LIVE Stream from Gallery Ars Libera, Kuopio, Finland
1PM-5PM Live stream
TOUCH BAR is a concept and space that explores softness, descent, and dialogue between people and objects. The work is an experimental series of one-on-one encounters that explore contact without physical contact and between artists the physicality of it. Various artifacts are used as instruments of touch, which Fält & Väisänen will study during their working period. In TOUCH BAR artists will create a space where you stop to listen, sensitize the senses, create a common ritual, explore touch, look and, through looking, find an opportunity to touch or become touched. Handshake, hug, encouraging pressure on the shoulder. We have lived in a world where we greet acquaintances and strangers with a touch. The coronavirus pandemic has completely changed the culture of contact. At the moment, touching is not allowed, it is feared and even horrified. How much touch is needed in everyday situations in life? How significant a part has it been in our lives? What are the effects of not being able to touch each other? Touch creates basic security for people, it comforts, empowers. In a safe space and environment, it can have healing effects, touch brings people together, it cares and nurtures. Touch evokes the imagination, it can bring back memories, it allows you to travel through the imagination to another time and place.
Finnish artists, freelance dancer Anna Väisänen & and multidisciplinary artist Emma Fält are currently working on a larger Live - art project that is mapping utopias and investigating the power of dreaming and imagination. During the time of the TtD - symposium we will be investigating our boundaries and possibilities in active and empathic listening through drawing, touch, sound and movement in a local gallery in Kuopio, Finland. By using novel sound interfaces for musical expression, we will be creating a soundscape from human touch with a special midi controller, microphones and live processing of the sound. Our work will be durational and the viewer can visit different scenarios and working methods during the 4 hour long session. We will be sharing the scores we use for anyone interested.
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Metacomics. Turning dreams into reality with the magic of comics
Luis Bellido Architect and Visual Coach 'Empowering people, one drawing at a time' In this presentation, I will share how I discovered the superpower of turning my dreams into reality with the magic of comics and coaching, and how I share this superpower with others via working as a visual coach. I will cover: - My life journey: from architecture in Peru to art education and coaching in Finland. - My academic journey: my master´s thesis “meta-cognitive-comics, an exploration of metacognition via metacomics”. - My professional journey: how I turned this theoretical investigation into a way of living as a solopreneur, via the Metacomics company and method. I will also show examples of my work with individuals and organizations, and myself, in topics such as visual manifestation, gratitude, and confidence, among many others. If you would like to know more about my work, you would check: https://startuprefugees.com/entrepreneurs/metacomics/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisbellidocoachmetacomicsmethod/detail/recent-activity/shares/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/metacomics.self.awareness.with.drawings Plus here is a link to a previous workshop: Visualize your goal strategy |
VIDEO Introduction of Metacomics. Turning dreams into reality with the magic of comics
In this video, I explain my mission with Metacomics - empowering people to turn their dreams into reality with the magic of comics -. I also tell the topics that I will cover in my full presentation. Which includes my life, academic and professional journey, from architecture in Peru to art education and coaching in Finland. As a sneak peek, I show an example of my own personal development (Minute: 2:00): “Balancing your superpowers”. Here I reflect on how one´s strength can turn into a weakness if overused. But this weakness can be turned back into a strength - a superpower! -, if used in the right way. Via reflecting with comics, we can gain the clarity to consciously decide what side of the coin would we like to focus our energy on. |
Tervahartiala, Marika
A pre-recorded slightly academic but yet inspirational 14mins presentation about one ongoing autoethnographical research process about drawing, with drawing and by drawing. Starting from visual ethnography and moving-drawing through ontological and ethical questions, research and art undivided, using art as “a strange tool” and ending up resting in not-knowing. Twisting and turning the research questions, wondering the relationship towards Academia and finding comforting joy in drawing. Plenty of literature and references included separately.
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A journey through 10 drawings
with Angela Hodgson-Teall Unlocking the past by re-viewing my drawings, exploring potentials and possibilities, in order to contemplate future development Angela is one of the original members of TTD and has attended all our symposia. This TtD member interview is the first of what we hope are many, enabling us to learn more about one another's creative lives, as well as our teaching and research practices. |
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Time and drawing
Laia Sole
During the 2020 pandemic year many artists and educators engaged with drawing. The reasons are manifold: accessibility and immediacy of drawing materials and processes, gratification of materiality within a context of remote/digital everyday life, the pleasure of kinestetics within a context of restricted mobility, or simply the impossibility to go to the studio. Drawing granted us with time for thinking, for exploring and making sense of the circumstances. The presentation draws upon an ongoing research exploring what of that turn towards drawing has been left through the voices of various educators and artists, including myself.
Laia Sole
Directora del Departament de Didàctica de les Arts i les Ciències.
Doctora en Educació per Teachers College, Columbia University.
Laia Sole
During the 2020 pandemic year many artists and educators engaged with drawing. The reasons are manifold: accessibility and immediacy of drawing materials and processes, gratification of materiality within a context of remote/digital everyday life, the pleasure of kinestetics within a context of restricted mobility, or simply the impossibility to go to the studio. Drawing granted us with time for thinking, for exploring and making sense of the circumstances. The presentation draws upon an ongoing research exploring what of that turn towards drawing has been left through the voices of various educators and artists, including myself.
Laia Sole
Directora del Departament de Didàctica de les Arts i les Ciències.
Doctora en Educació per Teachers College, Columbia University.
Swarm by Drawing NOW, Vienna. Collaborative drawing ONLINE LIVE
Details coming soon
Details coming soon
Drawing Together in Nature - Sharing where we are Angie Brew
A popular 2B workshop, where we use our phones, tablets or laptops to share our localities, and draw together. So far we have participants coming from New York Central Park, Watford UK and Mumbai. Please join us!
A popular 2B workshop, where we use our phones, tablets or laptops to share our localities, and draw together. So far we have participants coming from New York Central Park, Watford UK and Mumbai. Please join us!
DRAWING TOGETHER
The Amber Tree - we will continue to 'grow' the never ending drawing of a mother tree and her surrounding forest of tree drawings, with drawing spirits in the branches and root systems.
MinDraw
One minute drawings project, by Wanda Klenz Productions. During lockdown in UK Wanda Klenz and colleagues launched a one minute a day drawings project, with the goal of helping health workers and people with Covid to reflect on daily events in health care settings, in isolation, in lockdown etc. It then expanded, and now is a One Minute Drawing project for everyone - given that we are ALL affected by Covid. Please join the Facebook group to share your one minute drawings.
Facebook page
Facebook group
blog
MinDraw
One minute drawings project, by Wanda Klenz Productions. During lockdown in UK Wanda Klenz and colleagues launched a one minute a day drawings project, with the goal of helping health workers and people with Covid to reflect on daily events in health care settings, in isolation, in lockdown etc. It then expanded, and now is a One Minute Drawing project for everyone - given that we are ALL affected by Covid. Please join the Facebook group to share your one minute drawings.
Facebook page
Facebook group
blog
BIOGRAPHIES
Beatriz Acevedo (Colombia/United Kingdom) also known as CreatiBe Oracle is an artist and educator passionate about re-sparking the creative super-powers of individuals, communities and organisations. She has extensive experience in higher education, recognised by her National Teaching Fellowship (2020), and is writing about Beautiful Living.
Beatriz Albuquerque lives and works between Porto and New York. She was selected by Flash Art magazine as one of the 100 most relevant international artists under the age of 45. Awards include the Breakthrough Award for the 17th Cerveira Biennial; Myers Art Prize Award from Columbia University, New York; and the Ambient Performance Series Award, PAC / edge Performance Festival, Chicago.
www.beatrizalbuquerque.com
Affiliations: NIAM-ISCE Douro - Núcleo de Investigação em Artes e Multimédia do ISCE Douro, Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro; CEIS20 - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Escola das Artes, Universidade de Coimbra; CITAR - Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal.
www.beatrizalbuquerque.com
Affiliations: NIAM-ISCE Douro - Núcleo de Investigação em Artes e Multimédia do ISCE Douro, Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro; CEIS20 - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Escola das Artes, Universidade de Coimbra; CITAR - Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal.
Luis Bellido
Hi, I am Luis Bellido, architect, art educator, and coach with a special focus on visual manifestation. I founded and work with Metacomics, a method that combines coaching with visual tools, and sometimes beyond that. After working in architecture in two recognized offices for around 6 years in Lima, Perú, my city of origin, I decided to shift the approach of my contribution to society to a more humanistic way via education and coaching, and also to fulfil a lifelong dream of moving abroad. In that way, I relocated to Finland, where I graduated with a Master of Arts in Aalto University. As an art educator, I work in the Comic Center of Finland teaching comics courses (combined personal development and various educational topics) for kids, youth, and adults. I am also interested in sustainable development, I am vegan and passionate about sports, like acrobatics and long-distance running, among others; learning by traveling, and love doing collaborations. Lately, I am exploring spiritual tools, and reconnecting with architecture again. I am working on creating “meta-architecture” architecture for the spirit.
You can see more about my work on:
https://startuprefugees.com/entrepreneurs/metacomics/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisbellidocoachmetacomicsmethod/detail/recent-activity/shares/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/metacomics.self.awareness.with.drawings
Podcast interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZFNuujOVg
Confidence workshop; Manifestation Retreat; Visual Problem-Solving
Research-based: Meta-cognitive-comics. An exploration of metacognition via metacomics
Hi, I am Luis Bellido, architect, art educator, and coach with a special focus on visual manifestation. I founded and work with Metacomics, a method that combines coaching with visual tools, and sometimes beyond that. After working in architecture in two recognized offices for around 6 years in Lima, Perú, my city of origin, I decided to shift the approach of my contribution to society to a more humanistic way via education and coaching, and also to fulfil a lifelong dream of moving abroad. In that way, I relocated to Finland, where I graduated with a Master of Arts in Aalto University. As an art educator, I work in the Comic Center of Finland teaching comics courses (combined personal development and various educational topics) for kids, youth, and adults. I am also interested in sustainable development, I am vegan and passionate about sports, like acrobatics and long-distance running, among others; learning by traveling, and love doing collaborations. Lately, I am exploring spiritual tools, and reconnecting with architecture again. I am working on creating “meta-architecture” architecture for the spirit.
You can see more about my work on:
https://startuprefugees.com/entrepreneurs/metacomics/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisbellidocoachmetacomicsmethod/detail/recent-activity/shares/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/metacomics.self.awareness.with.drawings
Podcast interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZFNuujOVg
Confidence workshop; Manifestation Retreat; Visual Problem-Solving
Research-based: Meta-cognitive-comics. An exploration of metacognition via metacomics
Sarita Chouhan is a visual artist and her inter-disciplinary art practice, primarily drawing based is meditative in nature reflecting her interest in mysticism, spirituality and ecology. Sarita has exhibited her works in solos, group shows and participated in residencies in India and abroad. Her collaborative work with French butoh dancer Lucie Betz was a collaboration between drawing installations and performance. Sarita lives in Mumbai where she practices art and has conducted art workshops with Schools and N.G.Os and in lockdown she has been taking a series of virtual/ online workshops for children across diverse backgrounds.
http://sarichouhan.blogspot.com
https://www.instagram.com/saritarchouhan/?hl=en
http://saritalucie.blogspot.com
http://sarichouhan.blogspot.com
https://www.instagram.com/saritarchouhan/?hl=en
http://saritalucie.blogspot.com
Tim Hamons is a visual facilitator, coach, and trainer with over 20 years of experience drawing, speaking, training with clients throughout Asia and the world. Tim is passionate about creative transformation. As a visual facilitator and coach, he helps teams to articulate and visualise strategy, map solutions, and create, connect and collaborate better with a marker in their hands. He has worked with a wide range of organisations and industries to create narratives and metaphors for change, articulate branding strategy, and catalyse teams. Tim believes that by creating the right environment, with the right tools, is half the battle won towards effecting positive change. Visual tools and models create environments that encourage collaborative problem-solving, bigger-picture thinking, and collective ownership of the results. As a speaker and trainer, he uses live sketching in his presentations to frame key messages, build interactive storytelling, and boost curiosity, engagement and take-away value through the roof. An American Citizen, Tim has lived and worked in Singapore since 1991. Together with his wife Irene, they set up Art of Awakening in 2011 to transform meetings and conversations through interactive visual storytelling.
Angela Hodgson-Teall is an artist who practices in the arenas of socially engaged drawing and performance, health and well-being and visual poetry. In her arts PhD Drawing on the Nature of Empathy (UAL, 2014) she collaborated with hospital staff, using drawing to help them reflect, analyse, play and slow down during a time of crisis. She launched MinDrawNHS in April 2020 to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 along with other members of Thinking Through Drawing. She has worked with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and with artist Sonia Boyce at Flat-Time House, Peckham. She is about to launch her social enterprise Wanda Klenz Productions II in Cornwall and London (2020). She is on the Council of the Association for Medical Humanities and for 26 years she was also a Consultant Medical Microbiologist in South East London. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including the USA and Australia.
Ferwa Ibrahim is a Pakistan video and performance artist, currently living in Dubai, UAE. She has been reading into the language of her body that she developed as a Muslim woman. Her work explores how cultural and religious ritualistic practices affect one’s body language. She has a Masters in Fine Art from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and a PGDE in Art Education. Since the past 10 years she has been teaching art and creativity to different levels of learners in Pakistan, UAE and the USA. She has developed curriculum and introduced new teaching pedagogy through courses such as Visual Thinking and Performance Art for undergraduate students.
Anthi Kosma
Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, PhD, DEA ETSA de Madrid
Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, PhD, DEA ETSA de Madrid
Pamela Lawton
Pamela Lawton’s 2019-20 “Multisensory Drawing In Siena” project awarded her a U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant at the Siena Art Institute in Italy. Forwarding her artwork into the realm of tactility, she merged her own making practice with community-engaged practice at the Uffizi Galleries, the Benaki Museum (Athens) and the Palazzo Strozzi. Solo shows include the Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica, the Galeria Isabel Ignacio, Spain, and The Conde Nast Building, and 180 Maiden Lane. Group exhibits include the Metropolitan Museum Mezzanine print shop, Pierogi, Sideshow, and Tibor De Nagy galleries. Lawton was an artist-in-residence at the World Trade Center through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Poetry collaborations include Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh. While teaching at New School University, she created a Sri Lanka-based class. She teaches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Manhattanville College. www.pamelalawton.com
Pamela Lawton’s 2019-20 “Multisensory Drawing In Siena” project awarded her a U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant at the Siena Art Institute in Italy. Forwarding her artwork into the realm of tactility, she merged her own making practice with community-engaged practice at the Uffizi Galleries, the Benaki Museum (Athens) and the Palazzo Strozzi. Solo shows include the Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica, the Galeria Isabel Ignacio, Spain, and The Conde Nast Building, and 180 Maiden Lane. Group exhibits include the Metropolitan Museum Mezzanine print shop, Pierogi, Sideshow, and Tibor De Nagy galleries. Lawton was an artist-in-residence at the World Trade Center through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Poetry collaborations include Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh. While teaching at New School University, she created a Sri Lanka-based class. She teaches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Manhattanville College. www.pamelalawton.com
Elizabeth Leister
Leister engages a research-based practice that intersects art and technology. Her projects have been presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Drawing Center, Art in General and P.S. 122, Highways Performance Space and various artist run spaces. Leister has performed at homeLA, LACE, Perform Chinatown, Beyond Baroque, Outpost Artists Resources, etc. and her recent VR experiences have been presented at XR for Change, Currents New Media Festival, FIVARS and Mana Body + Camera Festival and additional festivals. Leister is Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Production in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at CSUN.
www.elizabethleister.com
https://vimeo.com/elizabethleister
Leister engages a research-based practice that intersects art and technology. Her projects have been presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Drawing Center, Art in General and P.S. 122, Highways Performance Space and various artist run spaces. Leister has performed at homeLA, LACE, Perform Chinatown, Beyond Baroque, Outpost Artists Resources, etc. and her recent VR experiences have been presented at XR for Change, Currents New Media Festival, FIVARS and Mana Body + Camera Festival and additional festivals. Leister is Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Production in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at CSUN.
www.elizabethleister.com
https://vimeo.com/elizabethleister
Deborah Lutz is a figurative and abstract artist interested in perception and the formal act of drawing. She teaches ‘Seeing Through Drawing’, a process-based class for people with vision impairments for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has an expertise in verbal description as an approach for accessing art. In 2019 her drawing ‘Tentative Sight’ was exhibited in The Painting Center ‘Patterns of Influence’ group show. She was a presenting panel member at the 2012 NAEA Conference: ‘Seeing Through Drawing; Touch, Drawing, and Mental Imagery in People With and Without Visual Impairments’. Deborah received her B.F.A. from Bowling Green State University, and her M.F.A. from The New York Academy of Figurative Art. She lives and works between both coasts.
www.Deborahlutz-art.com
Lutz.Deborah@Instagram
www.Deborahlutz-art.com
Lutz.Deborah@Instagram
Maggie Nowinski
Originally from NY, Maggie Nowinski is an artist, educator and curator in Western MA. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Westfield State University in MA, and at Manchester Community College in CT. Nowinski maintains an active exhibition record and has a current solo exhibition A wHole Recollection featuring 365 Daily Covid drawings and a large-scale installation of wHoles (30’x25’) at the von Auersperg Gallery in Deerfield MA. Her work is rooted in drawing & installation and her practice is embodied by an awareness of the socio-political nature of art making.
Instagram @maggienow and www.maggienowinski.org
Originally from NY, Maggie Nowinski is an artist, educator and curator in Western MA. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Westfield State University in MA, and at Manchester Community College in CT. Nowinski maintains an active exhibition record and has a current solo exhibition A wHole Recollection featuring 365 Daily Covid drawings and a large-scale installation of wHoles (30’x25’) at the von Auersperg Gallery in Deerfield MA. Her work is rooted in drawing & installation and her practice is embodied by an awareness of the socio-political nature of art making.
Instagram @maggienow and www.maggienowinski.org
Lucie Russell is a London based artist, researcher and drawing facilitator. She studied at Winchester School of Art (BA Hons) and was awarded an MA from the Royal College of Art. Her drawing practice focuses on visual representations of the body(s), people’s experiences of drawing as both verb and a noun, creates the foundation of her (LDoc funded) practice-based PhD at Central Saint Martins, UAL. As Drawing People Together she designs and facilitates inclusive and socially-engaged community events. Creating an ongoing diverse range of workshops that explore art as both playful and serious by inviting everyone, of all ages and abilities, to quite literally draw together.
Instagram @drawing.people.together
Instagram @drawing.people.together
Curie Scott is an independent Education and Arts & Health consultant, coach and artist. Qualified in medicine, science and education, her knowledge and research span Arts and Health. She is an award- winning teacher, having taught hundreds of health professional students. Her reflective thinking through drawing workshops use expressive drawing to reconnect people to their bodies and surrounding environment
Social media https://twitter.com/DrDr_CurieScott
https://www.linkedin.com/in/curiescott/
Social media https://twitter.com/DrDr_CurieScott
https://www.linkedin.com/in/curiescott/
Laia Sole
Artist, researcher and educator, Laia Sole has developed a body of work centered on space & experience, which she likes to approach and respond to through drawing, video and sound. Her work has been shown at Cuchifritos Galery (NYC, 2018, 2016), The Drawing Center (NYC, 2015), Fundació Chirivella-Soriano (València, 2015) among others. Doctor in Education (CU), graduated in Fine Arts (UB), she is currently professor of art education at Universitat de Vic (UVic-UCC).
http://laiasole.net/
@lalaiasole
Artist, researcher and educator, Laia Sole has developed a body of work centered on space & experience, which she likes to approach and respond to through drawing, video and sound. Her work has been shown at Cuchifritos Galery (NYC, 2018, 2016), The Drawing Center (NYC, 2015), Fundació Chirivella-Soriano (València, 2015) among others. Doctor in Education (CU), graduated in Fine Arts (UB), she is currently professor of art education at Universitat de Vic (UVic-UCC).
http://laiasole.net/
@lalaiasole
Emma Strangwayes-Booth
Paris based, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Strangwayes-Booth uses drawing to tap into her subconscious and unconscious mind as a means to help heal trauma and create a narrative journey. As well as the use of memory she also weaves into her work her dreams and stories.
Since 2017 she has been printmaking, using drypoint and etching techniques on plexiglass and metal.
Her work has been shown internationally including a solo show at the National Museum of Art in Riga and most recently as part of a virtual lockdown show at the municipal art space in Charenton le Pont and with the Bo Halbirk Studio at the Contemporary Print art fair in Paris.
www.emsbooth.com
Paris based, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Strangwayes-Booth uses drawing to tap into her subconscious and unconscious mind as a means to help heal trauma and create a narrative journey. As well as the use of memory she also weaves into her work her dreams and stories.
Since 2017 she has been printmaking, using drypoint and etching techniques on plexiglass and metal.
Her work has been shown internationally including a solo show at the National Museum of Art in Riga and most recently as part of a virtual lockdown show at the municipal art space in Charenton le Pont and with the Bo Halbirk Studio at the Contemporary Print art fair in Paris.
www.emsbooth.com
Marika Tervahartiala
A Finnish drawer, an autoethnographer, an art educator and a researcher. Master of Arts, now working on my doctoral studies of art education at the Aalto University, Helsinki. Professional in participatory and community arts. Exploring drawing within autoethnographic and artistic research frameworks. Currently working as an art teacher in upper secondary school, dreaming of having more time for drawing in my studio and garden(ing).
Some drawing-related things I have done lately:
Tervahartiala, Marika. 2020. “Sharpening the pencil. A visual journey towards the outlines of drawing as an autoethnographical method.” In Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research. Ethnography with a Twist. Edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Viktorija L.A. Ceginskas, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, 100-114. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355608
Open access: https://bit.ly/38n1fTH
2020 Video production with artist collective “Koronan kohottamat” (transl. “Uplifted by Covid19”) 11th Painted touch: “I want to wonder”
https://youtu.be/T1cHbci_gzs
2020 Pro Bono project as a visual facilitator-drawer with The Federation of Mother and child homes and Shelters; a Finnish nationwide child welfare organization. https://youtu.be/3Gk0UN6jeoM
A Finnish drawer, an autoethnographer, an art educator and a researcher. Master of Arts, now working on my doctoral studies of art education at the Aalto University, Helsinki. Professional in participatory and community arts. Exploring drawing within autoethnographic and artistic research frameworks. Currently working as an art teacher in upper secondary school, dreaming of having more time for drawing in my studio and garden(ing).
Some drawing-related things I have done lately:
Tervahartiala, Marika. 2020. “Sharpening the pencil. A visual journey towards the outlines of drawing as an autoethnographical method.” In Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research. Ethnography with a Twist. Edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Viktorija L.A. Ceginskas, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, 100-114. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355608
Open access: https://bit.ly/38n1fTH
2020 Video production with artist collective “Koronan kohottamat” (transl. “Uplifted by Covid19”) 11th Painted touch: “I want to wonder”
https://youtu.be/T1cHbci_gzs
2020 Pro Bono project as a visual facilitator-drawer with The Federation of Mother and child homes and Shelters; a Finnish nationwide child welfare organization. https://youtu.be/3Gk0UN6jeoM
Emma Strangwayes-Booth
Paris based, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Strangwayes-Booth uses drawing to tap into her subconscious and unconscious mind as a means to help heal trauma and create a narrative journey. As well as the use of memory she also weaves into her work her dreams and stories. Since 2017 she has been printmaking, using drypoint and etching techniques on plexiglass and metal. Her work has been shown internationally including a solo show at the National Museum of Art in Riga and most recently as part of a virtual lockdown show at the municipal art space in Charenton le Pont and with the Bo Halbirk Studio at the Contemporary Print art fair in Paris.
www.emsbooth.com
Paris based, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Strangwayes-Booth uses drawing to tap into her subconscious and unconscious mind as a means to help heal trauma and create a narrative journey. As well as the use of memory she also weaves into her work her dreams and stories. Since 2017 she has been printmaking, using drypoint and etching techniques on plexiglass and metal. Her work has been shown internationally including a solo show at the National Museum of Art in Riga and most recently as part of a virtual lockdown show at the municipal art space in Charenton le Pont and with the Bo Halbirk Studio at the Contemporary Print art fair in Paris.
www.emsbooth.com
Jenny Wright
I completed my PhD at the University of the Arts London, exploring drawing within the field of surgery and emerging technologies. The research built on sketches that I made in operating theatres leading to finished drawings exploring movement and haptics. My studies were supported by researchers at Kings College London Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial sciences using data from the hapTEL system. I currently work with medical and dental professionals exploring drawing methods to describe infection routes linked to Alzheimer’s disease and changes in memory experienced by those living with dementia.
Instagram account dr_jenny_wright17
I completed my PhD at the University of the Arts London, exploring drawing within the field of surgery and emerging technologies. The research built on sketches that I made in operating theatres leading to finished drawings exploring movement and haptics. My studies were supported by researchers at Kings College London Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial sciences using data from the hapTEL system. I currently work with medical and dental professionals exploring drawing methods to describe infection routes linked to Alzheimer’s disease and changes in memory experienced by those living with dementia.
Instagram account dr_jenny_wright17
PREVIOUS EVENTS & PROCEEDINGS:
TtD 2020 SYMPOSIUM
2B
Drawing Changes
OCTOBER 16-18 2020
online symposium
2B
Drawing Changes
OCTOBER 16-18 2020
online symposium
A full programme of interactive workshops, live discussions, show and tells, get togethers, research talks and collaborative drawing, relating to our theme of Drawing Changes #drawingchanges #2B and the Big Draw 2020 green theme. #climateofchange
Day 1: Climate Change Day 2: Learning & Collaboration Day 3: Healing
The event was recorded, and tickets are still available, to give you access to 3 days of recordings of workshops, presentations and discussions, and to the interactive Miro boards with drawings, links and feedback.
2B Mark 2
Saturday 5th December 2020
with special guest, artist educator Sarita Chouhan
3 hours of sharing educational, drawing and research practices
Noon -3pm GMT
PLUS Warm up workshop with Gagan Singh 11am
Saturday 5th December 2020
with special guest, artist educator Sarita Chouhan
3 hours of sharing educational, drawing and research practices
Noon -3pm GMT
PLUS Warm up workshop with Gagan Singh 11am
We are excited about the opportunities a virtual symposium offered us – to be greener, to include participants from all around the world who have hitherto been unable to attend in person, to explore drawing at a distance and new possibilities of drawing together online. We have postponed our scheduled 2020 symposium - Drawing Together, to be held at the State University of New York at New Paltz, until October 2021, dates tbc.
2020 has brought unprecedented health, environmental and human rights challenges that have required individuals to shift the way that we work, live, and interact in our daily lives. Our communities are confronting inequality and injustice, and are demanding social change. 2B: Drawing Changes provided context in which to connect and converse about how our present moment is changing the ways that people make and share drawings, as well as drawing’s usefulness - as a tool for chronicling, confronting, conceiving and contributing to opportunities for change that are presented by our times, our fears, our hopes and our hearts.
For our 2020 online symposium we worked in collaboration with Indiana University Southeast, State University of New York at New Paltz, and The Big Draw.
The symposium ran over 3 days, with 4 hours of live content per day, and local meet ups in all time zones. All live workshops and discussion forums were recorded and are available to ticket holders now, after the event. As a ticket holder you also gain access to a bank of pre-recorded workshops and presentations, educational resources and archive materials from our previous symposia and professional development courses, 2011 – present.
Your ticket gives you access after the event to prerecorded workshops and presentations, to view at your leisure.
Participants wanted to keep the 2B network of educators, researchers and artists going - in response we are hosting monthly workshops, to maintain and develop valuable connections made at 2B LIVE. We hope that fellow drawers and drawing lovers from around the world will join us for these monthly 2Bs, to give and receive support within our community of practice, and to share practices across cultures and geographical space.
drawingandcognition@gmail.com
Exclusive 30% discount on books within the Intellect drawing collection for 2B participants.
2020 has brought unprecedented health, environmental and human rights challenges that have required individuals to shift the way that we work, live, and interact in our daily lives. Our communities are confronting inequality and injustice, and are demanding social change. 2B: Drawing Changes provided context in which to connect and converse about how our present moment is changing the ways that people make and share drawings, as well as drawing’s usefulness - as a tool for chronicling, confronting, conceiving and contributing to opportunities for change that are presented by our times, our fears, our hopes and our hearts.
For our 2020 online symposium we worked in collaboration with Indiana University Southeast, State University of New York at New Paltz, and The Big Draw.
The symposium ran over 3 days, with 4 hours of live content per day, and local meet ups in all time zones. All live workshops and discussion forums were recorded and are available to ticket holders now, after the event. As a ticket holder you also gain access to a bank of pre-recorded workshops and presentations, educational resources and archive materials from our previous symposia and professional development courses, 2011 – present.
Your ticket gives you access after the event to prerecorded workshops and presentations, to view at your leisure.
Participants wanted to keep the 2B network of educators, researchers and artists going - in response we are hosting monthly workshops, to maintain and develop valuable connections made at 2B LIVE. We hope that fellow drawers and drawing lovers from around the world will join us for these monthly 2Bs, to give and receive support within our community of practice, and to share practices across cultures and geographical space.
drawingandcognition@gmail.com
Exclusive 30% discount on books within the Intellect drawing collection for 2B participants.
2B PROGRAMME
We received a wonderful range of proposals from around the world. Please check out the short introductory videos of workshops below.
The Schedule
Information on workshops and presentations
All the recordings of the full workshops can be viewed by ticket holders.
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A USEFUL & CRUCIAL WORKSHOP FOR EDUCATORS AND ANYONE REFIGURING THEIR WORK IN ORDER TO TEACH ONLINE
Teaching Drawing Online LIVE WORKSHOP, Saturday 17th October - LEARNING & COLLABORATION Workshop by The UWE Drawing Research Group in collaboration with the Visual Communication Department at Birmingham City University, UK. The group’s interests include the role of drawing in teaching, learning and research, and the practice of teaching drawing. The group have an interdisciplinary outlook and are making connections with those working outside the fields of art and design. |
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Drawing our Inner World. Seeing our Outer World Workshop with Dr Curie Scott 45minutes This is an exploratory drawing workshop. I’m interested in how drawing helps us make sense of the world. Wear comfortable clothes and bring paper and pens (if you have space, set up large paper on a wall or an easel and bring different drawing tools). Drawing is evocative and provocative. A drawing can tells us something, show us something and sometimes seems to know something before we do! This work stems from my PhD using participatory drawing to think about our future aged selves. I used intuitive and expressive drawing, and the term ‘generative drawing’. This is when we come to the page to draw but without a fixed idea of exactly what we are going to draw. This introduction video has some drawings to whet your appetite. I hope you’ll join in! We can pick up any drawings and thoughts on the workshop in the Healing panel on Sunday 18th October. |
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Anthi Kosma and Eva Miguel - Draw[riot]ing
Improvised, collaborative drawing. |
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A slow introduction to modern geometry
Workshop by Renaud Chabrier, helped by a french snail Text of his video introduction: Hi, I’m Renaud Chabrier, October is quite a rainy time in France, so a snail will help me with my workshop presentation, to provide a slow introduction to modern geometry. To begin with, we will practice drawing just a snail shell, in order to get used to the shape. Then we will draw the snail as it moves, and we will pay attention to the way the different drawings interact with each other. During this process, I will talk about the different transformations that the snail can show you, and about the geometry that you can use for your general composition. For this workshop, you will need one empty shell, and one living snail or more, plus a branch to make it move. If you can’t find this, I will display a pre-recorded movie of a moving snail in any case. You can use either charcoal, red chalk or black stone. You will also need a comfortable board and A3 sheet of white paper, or something larger. Feel free to use a variety of pencils on coloured paper, or brushes and ink wash if you prefer, but be careful with complicated techniques because the snail may be faster than you think… See you soon! |
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Botanical Drawing through the Sensorium
Workshop by Sara Schneckloth An embodied action, Botanical Drawing through the Sensorium expands both perception and reaction, enhancing our material, bodily, traces on the page. In this workshop, we combine close pansensory observation of our local neighborhood flora with the act of mindful drawing, working in a range of mediums and easily-accessible techniques. We will do a number of short studies to deepen perception of line, form, structure, and texture, synthesizing techniques to produce one larger piece. This workshop can be viewed from Monday 12th October by ticket holders - use your VIMEO code to access. Schneckloth will be LIVE on the LEARNING & COLLABORATION panel, OCTOBER 17th |
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Multi-Sensory Tactile Drawing, at the MET NYC
Workshop with Pamela Lawton Activate your senses and break your drawing habits. From the Sub-Saharan shores to our Zoom rooms, we will draw to sounds, images, and surfaces brought alive by museum objects taken in part from “Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara”, a current exhibition at the Met Museum. Savor surfaces and traverse spaces, guided by your senses, chance marks and subconscious responses. |
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Performative Drawing for Change with Beatriz Albuquerque Are you up to the challenge? Allow yourSelf to rejoice while creating this performative"Exquisite Corpse" drawing to bring change to the world. Let your voice be expressed with movement and drawing. Workshop leader: Beatriz Albuquerque Affiliation: CITAR (Research Centre in Science and Technology of the Arts), Catholic University of Portugal. |
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Phenomenology of (bodily) architectural drawings by Mohammad Moezzi Mohammad Moezzi is researching architectural representation and philosophy. He is an architect, designer and draftsman. who holds Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from AZAD University of Mashhad in Iran. He teaches architectural drawing, architectural representation, design studio, design process, environmental understanding and expression, and drawing theory. |
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Cones, Grids and Timelines with Matt Finch What does it mean to picture the future in uncertain times? How can drawing help us make better choices? This workshop will give attendees the opportunity to explore drawing-led methods of foresight work on- or off-line, helping people to identify key uncertainties and generate future scenarios to inform better decision-making. Based on the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach, this workshop offers the opportunity to radically (re)imagine the futures we might face, at any scale from the personal to the global, grounded in a rigorous and disciplined foresight methodology. |
Emma Fält - Celebrate Distance. Exploring sound and drawing, distance and delay.
Drawing Breath with Hameed, Brew & Freedman. An exploration of connections between breath and movements of our bodies, including drawing. How can breathing and drawing interact? How can drawing focus our attention, and how can drawing trace and mirror our breath? Ambreen Hameed is a yoga teacher, specialising in restorative yoga and yoga for people with autism. We used her prerecorded breath exercises to explore how drawing can follow our breath and movements of our bodies.
The Winners with Michelle Fava and Beatriz Acevedo.
'The Winners' is a warm-up exercise to heighten your senses through the magical power of words.
The Big Green Draw Festival 2020
A welcome from The Big Draw Director, Kate Mason on The Big Green Draw Festival Theme: A Climate of Change. Kate will outline their 2020 #climateofchange campaign and their community educational work. The Big Green Draw Festival 2020 #ClimateOfChange focuses on the relationship between people and our living environments and ecosystems; highlighting how we live today and the ways in which we do and do not harmonise with nature. 'Drawing – in all its forms, helps us make sense of a rapidly changing world around us. It is a global language which cuts across all barriers of culture, race and identity. In this special anniversary year, it is apt that we, alongside many other voices, also lend our own voice to help increase awareness and understanding of the emergency situation unfolding across all ecosystems. This universal language of drawing is the perfect narrator helping to document, report and share thinking around the seismic shifts taking place in our society. Everywhere are visual manifestations of positive activism from people wanting to help make change.' Kate Mason, 2020.
#BigGreenDraw #ClimateofChange #BigDrawTurns20
Tree Meds
LIVE WORKSHOP
Visualising ourselves as trees, exploring our connections, how we are rooted in and respond to the environment, and how we can learn from trees.
Tips and Tricks - teaching drawing online. TtD Director Dr Andrea Kantrowitz hosted a 'sharing teaching practices' session for all to share their tips for teaching online.
LIVE WORKSHOP - LEARNING & COLLABORATION
‘Thinking Work’: What Can Ancient Drawings Tell Us About the People Who Made Them?
Talk by Sanchita Balachandran, Associate Director and conservator, The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum
The Amber Tree - we continued to 'grow' the never ending drawing of a mother tree and her surrounding forest of tree drawings, with drawing spirits in the branches and root systems.
MinDraw
One minute drawings project, by Wanda Klenz Productions. During lockdown in UK Wanda Klenz and colleagues launched a one minute a day drawings project, with the goal of helping health workers and people with Covid to reflect on daily events in health care settings, in isolation, in lockdown etc. It then expanded, and now is a One Minute Drawing project for everyone - given that we are ALL affected by Covid. Please join the Facebook group to share your one minute drawings.
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Important legal note: The 2B symposium presenters have granted Thinking Through Drawing a limited license to present the recorded content of their presentations only to registered conference participants and only during the 2020 Thinking Through Drawing 2B: Drawing Changes Virtual Symposium. No further reproduction, transmission, sharing or publication of the content by Thinking Through Drawing or conference participants without the expressed written consent of the presenter of that content. The content of each presentation is and remains the property of the presenters and all rights, including but not limited to those rights contained in copyright are retained by the presenters.
We are delighted to recommend some drawing books to be published in 2021.
The authors, Rosemary Montgomery-Whicher and Seymour Simmons lll, will both be available for discussion during the symposium.
The authors, Rosemary Montgomery-Whicher and Seymour Simmons lll, will both be available for discussion during the symposium.
Cover Image: Drawing by George Clausen, RA “Half-length study of a woman drawing” Photo: copyright: Royal Academy of Arts, London
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“The lived experience of drawing: Reflections on an enduring practice” by Rose Montgomery-Whicher (as part of the series, “Phenomenology and Practice” Routledge, 2021) |
by Seymour Simmons III
The Value of Drawing Instruction in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula: Philosophical and Historical Arguments for Drawing in the Digital Age
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. Proposed publication: March 31, 2021.
By applying philosophical and historical perspectives to drawing instruction, this volume demonstrates how diverse teaching methods contribute to cognitive and holistic development applicable within and beyond the visual arts.
Offering a new perspective on the art and science of drawing, this text reveals the often-unrecognized benefits that drawing can have on the human mind, and thus argues for the importance of drawing instruction despite, and even due to contemporary digitalization. Given the predominance of visual information and digital media, visual thinking in and through drawing may be an essential skill for the future. As such, the book counters recent declines in drawing instruction to propose five Paradigms for teaching drawing – as design, as seeing, as experience and experiment, as expression, and as a visual language – with exemplary curricula for pre-K12 art and general education, pre-professional programs across the visual arts, and continuing education. With the aid of instructional examples, this volume dispels the misconception of drawing as a talent reserved for the artistically gifted and posits it as a teachable skill that can be learned by all.
This text will be of primary interest to doctoral students, researchers, and scholars with interests in drawing theory and practice, cognition in the arts, positive psychology, creativity theory, as well as the philosophy and history of arts education. Aligning with contemporary trends such as Design Thinking, STEAM, and Graphicacy, the text will also have appeal to visual arts educators, and those involved in arts integration.
Seymour Simmons III is a Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Winthrop University, USA.
See below for materials and proceedings from our previous events 2011 to the present.
2020 BIOGRAPHIES
The TtD Board Directors:
Drs Brew, Fava & Kantrowitz, collectively known as 123 Draw, are the founders of Thinking through Drawing. In 2018 123 Draw became 12345 Draw when artists and teachers Emily Sheehan and Emma Fält joined the group.
They run the TtD Symposium series, professional development courses and drawing residencies around the world.
Angie Brew is an artist, researcher and drawing teacher. She holds a Drawing MA with distinction from Camberwell College of Art, UAL, London. For her doctorate she worked in the Drawing & Cognition Project, Camberwell, researching enactive observational drawing methods and pedagogy. This resulted in a new cognitively-informed approach called 'Drawing Growth', synchronising eye and hand. Her art practice explores drawing for well-being and healing, and close observational drawing of growth processes. She is artist in residence in a community greenhouse in Brixton, London, where she leads a collaborative Drawing Growth project and a weekly drawing club. She runs an interdisciplinary research project called Drawlearn, exploring how drawing enables and enhances learning 'across the board'. During Covid lockdown she ran online sessions called Tree Meds - calming drawing meditations, and, with artists Angela Hodgson-Teall and Jen Wright, launched MinDraw, a one minute a day drawing project.
Angie at
brewdraw.com
drawlearn.com
Academia.edu
Michelle Fava is Head of Knowledge Transfer and Digital Learning Programme Manager at the Centre for Social Innovation, Cambridge University. She is co-founder of the Thinking Through Drawing project. She holds a PhD in drawing from Loughborough University and completed her post-doctoral research at Cambridge School of Art (in the UK), looking into the way in which drawing education practices are changing in art schools. Her work brings together cognitive principles and design thinking approaches to education and facilitation. She has written and edited academic publications on drawing, visual literacy and arts integration. Michelle has worked with UK schools and colleges to innovate curricula and teaching methods, and foster communities for pedagogic research and innovation.Michelle’s present research is looking into the factors influencing the longevity of Community Economic Development Organisations in the UK.
Michelle likes to draw seeds. She is looking forward to receiving her French passport next week so that she can remain European. She has a geriatric spaniel.
Michelle at Academia.edu
Andrea Kantrowitz EdD., is an artist, researcher, educator who has lectured and given workshops internationally on art and cognition. She holds a B.A in Art and Cognition from Harvard University and a MFA in Painting from Yale, and teaches at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She has taught drawing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and graduate courses in contemporary art at the College of New Rochelle. She has also been a teaching artist in the New York City for many years, involved in multiple local and national research projects. In 2014 she completed an interdisciplinary doctorate at Teachers College which examined the cognitive interactions underlying contemporary artists’ drawing practices. Her blog is Zyphoid.com and her own art work is represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art.
Andrea at Academia.edu
Emily Sheehan is a visual artist and drawing teacher. She received her MFA in Visual Studies, with a specialization in Drawing and Sculpture, from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in 2008. Since 2014, Emily has held the position of Assistant Professor of Fine Art and Drawing Area Head at Indiana University Southeast. As an educator, Emily is interested in creating creative curriculum that combines traditional academic drawing techniques with immediate, experimental, and unexpected drawing materials and methods. She develops and teaches curriculum to help fine arts students explore drawing as a tool for invention, conceptualization, and self-directed ideation, description, discussion, and problem solving. Emily’s artistic practice/research utilizes perceptual drawing (drawing from observation in a multi-sensory way) to explore the way that marks left on a page become evidence of lived experience.
Website: www.emilysheehanstudiosite.com
Emma Vilina Fält (BA(Design),MA (Fine Art), FIN, s.1983) is a multidisciplinary artist working in the field of drawing and performing arts. Her work takes a comprehensive look at drawing as a means to make contact, open dialogues and collaboratively explore our experience of the world. Her participatory pieces combine live drawing, sounds, multimedia and written scores to create live acts with groups. Fälts current work and ongoing artistic research explores drawing as listening. Fält has shown her work in Finland and abroad in galleries, festivals, symposiums, museums and worked in community projects with youth in Finland. Emma Teaches drawing in Art School Maa, at the Hospital school in Kuopio, Finland and works as a visiting teacher around the world.
http://emmafalt.net
https://vimeo.com/vilina
Creating space for listening
2B Presenters 2020:
Drawing Research Group & Visual Communication Department, Birmingham City University, UK.
The UWE Drawing Research Group was founded at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and for this workshop is collaborating with the Visual Communication Department at Birmingham City University, UK.
The group’s interests include the role of drawing in teaching, learning and research, and the practice of teaching drawing. The group have an interdisciplinary outlook and are making connections with those working outside the fields of art and design.
The members are Gary Embury, Senior Lecturer in Illustration, UWE; Anouk Mercier, Lead Technical Instructor in Visual Studies, UWE; Chloe Regan, Lecturer in Visual Communication, Birmingham City University and BIFCA, China; Lucy Ward, Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Print, UWE.
www.uwedrawingresearch.com
Instagram: uwe_drawing_research
Chloe Regan MA (RCA) FHEA is Visual Communication Flying Faculty and Lecturer, Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creative Arts, China, School of Visual Communication. She is a Member of the Material Encounters Research Cluster
www.bcu.ac.uk/art/research/material-encounters
www.chloeregan.com
Beatriz Albuquerque lives and works between Porto and New York. She received her Doctoral from Columbia University and her Master from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was selected by Flash Art magazine as one of the 100 most relevant international artists under the age of 45. Awards include the Breakthrough Award for the 17th Cerveira Biennial; Myers Art Prize Award, Columbia University; and the Ambient Performance Series Award, PAC/edge Performance Festival. Beatriz Albuquerque exhibits internationally, with solo and group exhibitions at the Chelsea Art Museum, International Istanbul Biennial, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, among others. www.beatrizalbuquerque.com
Sanchita Balachandran is the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. She teaches courses related to the identification and analysis of ancient manufacturing techniques of objects, as well as the history, ethics and practice of museum conservation. A recent course (Spring 2015) involved recreating ancient Greek pottery based on examples in the museum’s collection. She completed her graduate work in art history and art conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
http://archaeologicalmuseum.jhu.edu
Renaud Chabrier is a draftsman, filmmaker and artist-researcher. He works with sketches and movement, and believes that any single stroke in drawing can act as a vector of transformation. Much of his work involves creating animation movies and installations for science museums, using tools like morphing or real-time animation. Since 2017, he has been leading a research project involving biology, computer graphics and philosophy, with the aim of understanding which geometries we use when we draw the spatiality of life.
Affiliation: Institut Curie, PSL University / LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris
Matt Finch of mechanicaldolphin.com is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland and a facilitator on the Scenario Planning course at Oxford University. He helps communities, institutions, and individuals to look at the future, find good ideas, and make them happen.
Natasha Freedman is Director of studio2909 and Chair of the Board of Improbable Theatre, having been Director of Learning for English National Opera and Complicite, and Deputy Director of Cape Farewell. She is a regular visiting tutor at the National Film and Television School, leading visual literacy workshops for cinematography and directing students to raise awareness of the body in the frame and behind the camera. She has led numerous workshops for the Royal College of Art, Central St Martin’s, London College of Fashion and the National Gallery.
Ambreen Hameed has practiced yoga and meditation for over thirty years and has studied with teachers from many traditions including the Satyananda, Iyengar and Viniyoga schools. Her teaching work is focussed on restorative practices to calm, relax and integrate mind with body, particularly breathing and sound techniques. She specialises in yoga for children with autism spectrum neurodiversity, and has also worked extensively with those in recovery from addiction, eating disorders and CFS. She holds a degree in physics from the University of Oxford and is accredited by the British Wheel of Yoga.
Angela Hodgson-Teall is an artist who practices in the arenas of socially engaged drawing and performance, health and well-being and visual poetry. In her arts PhD Drawing on the Nature of Empathy (UAL, 2014) she collaborated with hospital staff, using drawing to help them reflect, analyse, play and slow down during a time of crisis. She launched MinDrawNHS in April 2020 to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 along with other members of Thinking Through Drawing. She has worked with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and with artist Sonia Boyce at Flat-Time House, Peckham. She is about to launch her social enterprise Wanda Klenz Productions II in Cornwall and London (2020). She is on the Council of the Association for Medical Humanities and for 26 years she was also a Consultant Medical Microbiologist in South East London. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including the USA and Australia.
Anthi Kosma and Eva Miguel are the founders of imprografika, a collective of improvised, collaborative drawing, running online and offline sessions worldwide.
Anthi is currently giving classes at the University of Thessaly in Greece. She studied architecture in Democritos University and holds a PhD (Cum laude and special honor) from the School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM).
Eva is an architect from the School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM) and co-founder of Me, a brand and design laboratory on the move with bases in London and Menorca.
https://imprografika.wordpress.com/
https://www.anthikosma.com/
http://www.mebrandlab.com
Pamela Lawton
Pamela Lawton’s 2019-20 “Multisensory Drawing In Siena” project awarded her a U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant at the Siena Art Institute in Italy. Catapulting her artwork into tactile realms, she merged her own artmaking with community-engaged teaching at the Uffizi Galleries, the Benaki Museum (Athens) and elsewhere.
Her solo shows include the Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica, the Galeria Isabel Ignacio, Spain, and The Conde Nast Building, 180 Maiden Lane, and The Atrium Gallery, New York. Group exhibits include the Metropolitan Museum Mezzanine print shop, Pierogi, Sideshow, and Tibor De Nagy galleries. Lawton was an artist-in-residence at the World Trade Center through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Poetry collaborations include Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh. She has a BA from Bennington College, an MFA from City College, NY and Scuola Lorenzo De Medici in Italy, and received a merit scholarship from Yale Summer School of Music and Art. While at New School University, she created a Sri Lanka-based class. She teaches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Manhattanville College.
http://pamelalawton.com
Mohammad Moezzi is a PhD student of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape in the University of Calgary in Canada, where he is doing research on architectural representation and philosophy. He is an architect, designer and draftsman who holds Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees, both from AZAD University of Mashhad in Iran. As an architect, he has been working in more than forty projects. He also has been a Lecturer in Iran and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Canada since 2012. He taught courses on architectural drawing, architectural representation, design studio, design process, environmental understanding and expression, and drawing theory.
https://www.instagram.com/m.h.moezzi/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-h-moezzi/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/mohammad_moezzi
Howard Riley is Professor Emeritus, Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He studied at the Hammersmith College of Art, Coventry College of Art, the Royal College of Art and holds a doctorate in the practice and pedagogy of drawing. He has published in the areas of drawing pedagogy and visual semiotics. Riley's drawings have been exhibited in Australia, Finland, Serbia, the USA and the UK.
Professor Howard Riley PhD MA(RCA) CertDes FRSA FHEA
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Howard_Riley
https://howardriley.wordpress.com
Sara Schneckloth
Schneckloth’s studio practice is motivated by the question of how science, imagination, and the body inform one another through the activity of drawing. She has shown drawings in over eighty exhibitions throughout the US, UK, South Africa, Norway, and France. Her essays on drawing and embodiment have appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, Visual Communications Quarterly, TRACEY, and the Manifest INDA. She holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina, co-curates the Svalbard Seed Cultures Archive, and directs Drawing Canyon, Sage, and Sky in rural New Mexico.
www.saraschneckloth.com
www.seedcultures.com
www.canyonsagesky.com
Offerings film: https://vimeo.com/387107770
Dr Curie Scott drew as a child and then got lured away. She is a qualified medical doctor who moved into University lecturing. Curie was intrigued that drawing helped health professional students learn. She invested time during her drawing PhD getting reacquainted with drawing. Drawing now threads through her current work as an academic coach, artist-researcher, writer and facilitator. Her reflective thinking through drawing workshops use expressive drawing to reconnect people to their bodies and surrounding environment. She is nearing the end of a commissioned book on ‘Drawing for Health and Wellbeing’.
Mr. Neil Shah
I am a surgeon with a long-standing interest in the relationships between surgery and art. To that end I have had a close collaboration with artists over the years with a view to further developing our close links on many levels.MBBS(Lond), BDS(Lond), MSc(Lond), FDSRCS(Eng), FRCS(General Surgery)(Eng), FRCS(OMFS)(Eng).
Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial / Head & Neck Surgeon, BHRUT
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Head & Neck Surgery, University College London.
Clinical Lead, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, BHRUT.
Clinical Lead, Department of Orthodontics, BHRUT.
Lead for Early Diagnosis, Head & Neck Cancer Pathway Board, London Cancer.
Lead for Surgery, Skin Cancer Pathway Board, London Cancer.
Gagan Singh is a Delhi based artist who also conducts Drawing based workshops. His interest has been how to think through Drawing through Sketchbooks, working on site and Video where he uses Humor as an entry point. He graduated from Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury, Kent in 2005 with an MA in Fine Arts.
He is represented by Chatterjee & Lal Gallery based in Mumbai.
http://chatterjeeandlal.com/artists/gagan-singh/
https://www.instagram.com/gagansingh05/
https://indiaartfair.in/gagan-singh-i-sometimes-envision-when-i-am-drawing-that-i-am-doing-stand-up-comedy
Jen Wright: I completed my doctoral research at UAL exploring the role of drawing and drawing like activities within the field of medicine and medical education. The work examined links between drawing and the haptic nature of surgery and was supported by the HapTEL department at King’s College Dental Institute. My recent work continues with the collaboration with King’s College London and Brescia University looking at issues of mental health and Alzheimer’s Disease. The latest research explores the use of forms of drawing, particularly map making with Alzheimer’s patients. My art practice continues, with a particular focus on drawing and print making, recording the impact of microbial infection on the structure of the brain and subsequent impact on personality changes on a patient.
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Drawing Rocks!
What is Drawing Good For?
TtD 2018 Symposium
June 5-6th 2018
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in The Secret Drawing Room BFI Southbank London |
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'Drawing Rocks' brought together leading researchers, educators and drawing practitioners to continue our exploration of what drawing is, what it does, and how it does it. To this end, we shared drawing practices and research findings, and discussed the many roles of drawing. The 2 day event consisted of practical workshops, presentations of recent cognitive research relating to drawing practices and learning, and discussions.
The Secret Drawing Room, BFI, Southbank, London
Thinking through Drawing has consistently produced, published, and presented original drawing research and curriculum. It has hosted various courses and workshops as well as six international symposia, in collaboration with Columbia University, University of the Arts London, Indiana University Southeast, SUNY New Paltz, Loughborough University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York