IDEAS FOR FUTURE DRAW SESSIONS

Please suggest ideas for Autumn 2009 presentations!
Include:
a current student
a guest practitioner (could be ex student)
optional: second practitioner (writer/critic etc)
Theme/ title
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Some drawings of the forest

MAN Drawing Prize Winners

CAAD won both first and second prize in the recent Man Group Drawing Awards.

Congratulations to Page Tsou, who won first prize for the portraits shown above.
Congratulations also to Mohammad Namazi, who came second.

Margarita Gluzberg: The Money Plot

North, 240x250cm colour pencil on paper

2 May - 8 June 2008

Private View: Thursday, 1 May 2008, 7-9pm
This is money… this is greed… this is power… This is… In the Blackout… the blue petals of Forget-me-nots sit, a pretty, ghostly, presence on the surface of the canvas and behind an image of… what? Of, this… of pure desire, ordered, corralled into regularised working hours, into electronic information – light no less – that fills the hungry, unblinking computer screens that chart, with ruthless relentlessness, the fluctuating prices of every commodity in the world... This is… Christmas Bollocks…

The works plot a serendipitous course through an imagined, personal history of the birth of modern consumer society. No clear thesis is presented, no blueprint for resistance drawn up, instead Gluzberg offers an empathic, response to the vast, vital energies of capital flows that animate our world.

The title of the show is taken from an appendix of Balzac's novel La Cousine Bette. The work’s editors decided that in order to understand the complex network of the characters‚ relationships and intrigues in the book, the reader must be provided with a synopsis they termed The Money Plot - a breakdown of debts, financial dependencies and connections between the protagonists. The Money Plot lies behind all human relationships.
This is the Money Plot.


PARADISE ROW
17 Hereford St, (off Cheshire St)
London, E2 6EX

There will be a group visit to this drawing exhibition by Margarita Gluzberg, research tutor in drawing, on the afternoon of May 21st. Please sign up on notice board . Margarita will talk about the show in Photography on Thursday May 15th 5.15pm

The Drawing Room

Mary Doyle, from the Drawing Room, will act as one of our mentors

on DRAW over the coming year. The current exhibition at the Drawing Room 

(ends June 1st) is by Hayley Tomkins. A group visit could be arranged.

www.drawingroom.org.uk

The first DRAW session, Voyages Extraordinaires - about fictitious worlds - took place on April 15, and featured presentations by artist Paul Noble and second year student Joe Childs.

JOE CHILDS presented early drawn moving image projects, a more recent book project, The Brain of a Bear, and work in progress on his most recent (as yet untitled) film.

 

“Drawing is fundamental to my creative process as it both informs my work and is my work. For me it is the visual art form closest to thought. My work mixes understood and accepted forms of “normal” communication with that of the absurd and nonsensical. [In the film] a set of pointless systems run throughout a vast landscape in order to perform a seemingly arbitrary task. It's centred around an existentialist notion of the absurd and the often unfathomable nature of life.



A fascination with both science and the absurd strongly informs Joseph's work and The Brain of a Bear reflects this. What unfolds is a worryingly rationalised experiment where a brain transplant is performed between a panda and a polar bear.

DRAW Launch

DRAW was launched on March 11th

Aims:

To raise profile of drawing in CA&D
To foster student led initiatives.
Crossover between Graphic Design/ Moving Image/ Illustration/Animation students

Format:

A series of short, informal presentations of work by a mixture of guest practitioners, students and alumni around a changing subject, sometimes based on theme, other times process – or mixture of both. Three sessions a term, attended by 10-20 people.

Each session, suggested by students or staff, will have a subtitle and explore particular ideas around drawing, offering an opportunity for students to air committed drawing projects and invite guests whose work links with theirs. Related work by current students will be put on walls as a background to the conversation. The presentations could include visits and workshops, but will focus mostly on sharing work/ideas/projects. Particular themes will dictate the content of each session, rather than an ongoing format. Appropriate guests will be carefully selected. Material from the sessions will form the basis of an exhibition about the different ways drawing is used within CA&D.
Projects brought to the meetings will offer opportunities for research proposals.

Sample themes/subjects:

Drawing and Digital
Drawing and Moving image
Drawing/Photography
Drawing/Typography
Drawing as Thinking

Drawn, Hung & Quartered

Drawn, Hung & Quartered

This exhibition, which developed from the Drawing Elective, was held from April 15th to April 20th in the Hockney Gallery and opened by Quentin Blake.
Mary Doyle, from The Drawing Room, gave feedback on the exhibition - a written version of this will be posted here.
More pictures below.
Well done to everyone who exhibited!
Catherine and Anne