‘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

Reportage Drawing 'Basilicata, Southern Italy, January 2019.'

The shops are shut, businesses close and streets are quiet, respecting the traditions around lunch. Can this way of life be sustained in a global economy?

The beauty of southern Italy, the snowy town of Forenza. Seemingly untouched.

" I know people in their fifties who had to move countries for work."