Full Description
Using a combination of articles and interviews, the book introduces nine contemporary drawing projects that embrace an expansive definition of the discipline, and use their drawing practice to consider how place is understood and made.
Drawing as Placemaking focuses on how drawings and drawing processes can examine and articulate our relationships to placemaking, to our concepts of home, to historical and memorial sites, to our personal histories, and to imagined and actual places.
The contributing artists (from the USA, Canada, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and the UK) use expanded drawing approaches to present different perspectives on how drawings are made, and how they can be used to describe, analyse, reimagine, transform and to make new actual, historical, and psychological places. The artist-authored chapters and the conversations with artists are interwoven to facilitate broader conversations about our human interactions with place, through all our senses; what we can see, touch, feel and hear, alongside what we know, theorise or imagine. The re-evaluation of placemaking from a range of cultural perspectives highlights new stories whilst reconsidering older ones.
The book reveals new and contemporary insights into the long historical connection between drawing and placemaking and contributes to new debates around placemaking. It offers a deeper understanding of how we use drawing to better define ourselves and our place in the world.
Contents
Foreword - Dr Anita McKeown - Art Services Unincorporated, and Dr Cara Courage - Head of Tate Exchange
Introduction - Simon Woolham and Jill Journeaux
Section 1: History and Pace.
1. 'On Drawing and Dormancy: A Photogrammetric Method of Waking'. Sevcan Ercan and Joe Graham - Kadir Has University, Turkey
In conversation 1. Mary Griffiths with Simon Woolham - Independent UK artist
2. 'Drawing with archaeological excavation and communicating with past landscapes in a post- digital epoch'. Stefan Gant - University of Northampton, UK
In conversation 2. Fay Ballard with Jill Journeaux - Independent artist
3. Greig Burgoyne - University for the Creative Arts, UK, 'Drawing invisible in plain sight'.
In conversation 3. Ana Leonor Rodrigues with Jill Journeaux, University of Lisbon
Section 2: Environment and Place.
4.'Liminality: space-making, place-making'. Maria O'Toole - Independent New Zealand artist
In conversation 4. David Griffin with Simon Woolham - Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, Canada,
5.'Installation Drawing as Placemaking: Creating Virtual Place and Physical Space through Representational Drawing'. Juliet Losq - Arts University Bournemouth, UK
In conversation 5.Kentaro Chiba with Jill Journeaux - Independent Japanese artist
6.'Drawing Luton Narratives with Camera-less Photography'. Anna Fairchild - University of Bedfordshire, UK,
In conversation 6. Becc Orszag with Jill Journeaux, Independent Australian artist
Section 3: Identity and Place.
7. 'Drawing Attention to the Place of Public Statues of Women' Claire Anscombe - University of Liverpool
In conversation 7. Nikola Dicke with Simon Woolham - University of Osnabrueck, Germany
8. 'Provisional Interventions: Shifting Drawings'. Joana Pereira - Royal College of Art, UK
In conversation 8. Maurice Moore with Simon Woolham - University of California-Davies, USA
9. 'Drawing at the edge of the map'.Kristin Mojsiewicz - Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK
In conversation 9. Pete Codling with Jill Journeaux - Independent UK artist
In conversation 10/Concluding thoughts: Simon Woolham in conversation with Professor Anita Taylor, University of Dundee - founding Director of the foremost annual drawing exhibition in the UK, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (since 1994), and Drawing Projects UK, a public-facing initiative dedicated to drawing (since 2009).
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