There is a particular quality of silence in an empty room, especially a family home when the door slams loudly and voices dissipate along the street. It is as if the air exhales, released from its constant disruption, constant churning by children running up the stairs and through doorways. For a moment, it is given reprieve to settle into the spaces left behind.
Material Presence 2018
May 2019
Ceramics Art and Perception: article 'Pacing the Perimeter'
May 2019
Ceramics Art and Perception: article 'Pacing the Perimeter'
Drawing has long been established as a conversational tool, as notation passed between individuals or with larger groups to create an evidence trail of ideas. There is a fascinating sociality to the activity, finding parallels with the dynamics of a conversation, as artists enter similar cycles of inspection, re-conception, and re-examination, pushing ideas forward, asserting focus, and altering original intentions.
Drawing Research
Small Stories From the Lake
The following report maps the first stages of this study from initial interaction with the site of the residency at Niemelä house, E. Finland, and onto a series of drawing conversations with its attendees. The results start to show how, as a particular field of the visual arts, the drawing process can be shaped by situated ‘small talk’, reflected in equivalenthesitancies and utterances in emerging and growing ideas, and in turn, how narrative analysis can be used to interpret and explore the sociality of drawing taking place.
MAA/Ground Residency Finland
Pictorial Language
It is, of course, a mindset universally pursued by artists,the hope that through their observation of, and sensibility to, material surroundings they might pries open new ways of seeing and be able to follow where they lead.
Drawing Inspirations Exhibition and Symposium
Drawing Partnerships
they entered into what Mithen claims is a prerequisite mind set for creativity: the ability to combine and fluidly move between social, technical and more deeply rooted evolutionary domains; not least of these being aesthetic appreciation.
Thinking with Berger ConferenceTANT Publication
Drawing
Parental
Conversations
Spanning 8 countries from Wales to Puerto Rico, Russia to Singapore the aim is to conduct ‘living research’, exploring ways in which parents can collaborate and converse with their child through the activity of drawing
Bentos Sketchbook
Social Potentials
of Drawing
The traversing of real and imaginary worlds is of key importance, the fluidity of movement between modes of thought encourages the most responsive creative thinking.
Valley and Vale Community Arts
Drawma!
The purpose of ‘Drawma’ is to explore the social and discursive capacity of drawing and to illustrate, respond and stimulate performance.
Drawing
In-Between
Preparatory drawings can transform the most tentative possibilities into expansive and refined ideas by entering into cycles of inspection, re-conception and re examination. Journal of Arts Education
Journal of Arts Education
V&A
Drawing Conversation
What is fascinating, is that even in an 'abstract' or free associative form, the visual conversations can be seen to reflect the patterns of verbal conversations such as evidencing dominant or passive roles, a meeting of combative opposing values,
Bentos Sketchbook