‘Teaching drawing online: a showcase of examples 

& resources for artists and educators’

I delivered a workshop in collaboration with Birmingham City University and the University of the West of England Drawing Research Group on ‘Teaching drawing online: a showcase of examples and resources for artists and educators’ at Thinking Through Drawing Symposium 2020. 

Contributors to the workshop presented their experience and advice on teaching drawing online and included:
Chloe Regan, Material Encounters

Lecturer and Flying Faculty in Visual Communication at Birmingham City University and Birmingham Institute of Fashion and creative arts in China
Dr Catherine Baker, Material Encounters

Associate Professor in the school of Fine Art at Birmingham City University, who has lectured widely on and participated in a number of international drawing initiatives.
Drawing Room, London, is an internationally renowned gallery, unique library and arts organisation that is dedicated to opening up the world of contemporary drawing to everyone. ROCK PAPER SCISSORS is a major part of Drawing Room’s engagement programme which puts children at the centre and explores with them - alongside their teachers, schools, families and artists - what drawing can be.
The Good Ship Illustration, offer no nonsense advice to illustrators and image makers navigating a creative career. They offer online courses and a Friday night art club on Instagram.
Jake Spicer, Draw Brighton: Draw is an independent drawing school in Brighton and has been providing flexible and affordable painting, printmaking and drawing classes since 2009. Under usual circumstances Draw accepts 10 students a year on the long-term Atelier course and provides a daily tutored and untutored programme for over 1000 different drop-in students a year; currently Draw is providing life drawing resources and online classes during the Covid-19 pandemic. 
Sarah Hyndman, a graphic designer, author, and public speaker, who leads international typography workshops using drawing.
Meg Buick, an artist and Associate Lecturer at UWE Bristol. Meg studied at the Royal Drawing School in London, and exhibits her drawings internationally.
Chloe Briggs, an artist and teacher of drawing. Since 2008 she has been Head of Foundation at Paris College of Art. In 2013 she created, ‘Drawing is Free’ an initiative that brings different  people together through collaborations and events to draw.

Stefan Gant, an Artist and Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Digital Practice at the University of Northampton. Stefan’s practice and research explores intersections of traditional drawing processes and interdisciplinary digital practice. He is currently artist in residence with The School of Archaeology, University of Oxford (2019-2023) based at Blenheim Palace.

The online international symposium was held in collaboration with Indiana University Southeast, State University of New York at New Paltz, and The Big Draw.

 www.thinkingthroughdrawing.org

The workshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Qafs6-Trc

‘Teaching drawing online: a showcase of examples and resources for artists and educators’

I am presenting a workshop with @uwe_drawing_research on ‘Teaching drawing online: a showcase of examples and resources for artists and educators’ at Thinking Through Drawing Symposium 2020. 

The online symposium is in collaboration with Indiana University Southeast, State University of New York at New Paltz, and The Big Draw.

We are sharing our experiences and techniques of teaching drawing online as well as those of Chloe Briggs @drawingisfree_org Dr Catherine Baker @drcatherinebaker Meg Buick @megbuickart Jake Spicer @brightondrawing Sarah Hyndman @typetasting Drawing Room London @drawingroom_ldn @thegoodshipillustration The Good Ship Illustration

Details and how to attend are here www.thinkingthroughdrawing.org

2B: Drawing Changes

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 will provide 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.

 

UWE Drawing Research Symposium Recorded

Photography by @rowenawardd

'What is drawing at art school today?'

Speakers included: Chloe Regan, UWE; Andrew Hall, CSM UAL; Paul Fieldsend Danks, Plymouth College of Art; Tania Kovats, Bath Spa University; Howard Riley, Swansea College of Art; Stefan Gant, University of Northampton; Garry Barker, Leeds Arts University; Kelly Chorpening, Camberwell UAL; Simon Packard, Bath Spa University; Lucy Algar, Wimbledon UAL; Sophia Banou, UWE.

UWE Drawing Research Symposium 2019

I will be presenting 'Drawing as a Learning Tool, an Exploratory Study' in a day of talks and discussion about drawing at art school.

Friday 8 November
The Drawing Studio, UWE City Campus, Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4AQ

Tickets are £65 for those with institutional affiliation, and £50 for those without.
Please book here

 

As a newly forming research group, we are holding a number of events to examine and focus our research intentions. Our current membership is an interdisciplinary group from across the Schools of Art and Design, and Film and Journalism at UWE, with a unifying interest in drawing in contemporary arts practice and research. We would like to use this day of discussion to review what drawing is and has been at art school, and what it could and should be in future.
 
The teaching of drawing has changed dramatically at art school over the course of a generation. The way that students are taught drawing today varies from the experience of their tutors. And experiences vary even between different generations of tutors.
 
There is talk of the decline of skills-based teaching and of students setting up their own life drawing classes. But what drawing skills do art students need anyway? What are they drawing for?
 
Drawing has been re-framed since the 1960s, asserting itself as an independent and autonomous practice. Dedicated galleries, BA and MA courses now exist across the country. What does this mean for how drawing is taught now and in the future?

Confirmed speakers include: Chloe Regan, UWE; Andrew Hall, CSM UAL; Paul Fieldsend Danks, Plymouth College of Art; Tania Kovats, Bath Spa University; Howard Riley, Swansea College of Art; Stefan Gant, University of Northampton; Garry Barker, Leeds Arts University; Kelly Chorpening, Camberwell UAL; Simon Packard, Bath Spa University; Lucy Algar, Wimbledon UAL; Sophia Banou, UWE.

Drawing Review Exhibition

Drawing as expanded practice

An exhibition surveying the current role of drawing in UWE staff practice in the Schools of Art and Design, Film and Journalism. This is the first exhibition by the UWE Drawing Research Group, Gary Embury, Lucy Ward, Anouk Mercier and Chloé Regan.

University of the West of England 

F Block Gallery

11^th – 27^th September 2019

www.uwedrawingresearch.com 

'Gijon, Spain'  

 

Pencil on Fabriano Paper, 57 x 76 cms

Chloé Regan

'Prada Foundation, Milan'  

 

Pastel on Fabriano Paper, 57 x 76 cms

 Chloé Regan

'Makers of Tomorrow' Exhibition

I was commissioned, alongside tutors and students from schools and universities, to demonstrate how artists and designers can gain inspiration from the significant collection of 20th and 21st century design at the Ken Stradling. My ‘Antelope Chair’ screenprint was created in response to Ernest Race’s iconic chair. 

Sketchbook Drawing in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham