Hannah Bertram | The 24 hour Drawing Project Saturday 1st March 10am – 8pm: Hannah Bertram and Jenny Hector create a new Drawing Project at BLINDSIDE The 24 Hour Drawing Project is an event in which artists start and finish a work of art in a continuous 24 hour period. Hannah Bertram has co-curated and participated in nine of these projects and is now exhibiting a selection of works produced during previous events. At the core of the event is an exploration of intensive effort, attention to process, action and time. From 10am until 8pm…
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UPDATED | NGV Event | Drop By Drawing
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Every Sunday in January the NGV is holding public drawing sessions. Particpants will be able to work with guidance from Australian artists Louise Hearman, Juan Ford, and John Wolseley. Materials are provided and your own grey-lead pencils and sketch pads are welcome (no larger than A3). Come and go as you like between each session. Open to visitors of all ages and all abilities. The first session on Sunday the 6th January with Louise Hearman was a great success, details of upcoming sessions below. Sun 13 Jan | Juan Ford, artist…
Exhibition Review | Guercino: A Passion for Drawing – The Collections of Sir Denis Mahon and the Ashmolean Museum by David Packwood
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Guercino: A Passion for Drawing – The Collections of Sir Denis Mahon and the Ashmolean Museum Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford, 11th February 2012 to 15th April 2012 Reviewed by David Packwood Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino (1591-1666) because of his squint, was one of the most prolific draughtsmen of the seicento. Many of his drawings survive, attesting to his industry, commitment and unwavering belief in his art. Born in Cento—mid way between Bologna and Ferrara—the biographers say that he drew from the age of six. Beckoned by the flourishing Carracci…
Review – Watteau: The Drawings. Royal Academy, London. 12 March – 5 June 2011. David R. Marshall
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Watteau: The Drawings Royal Academy, London. 12 March – 5 June 2020 Reviewed by David R. Marshall This exhibition is organized for the Royal Academy and curated by Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, and based on their 1996 catalogue of Watteau drawings. In his essay Prat points out that the number of drawings (90) is less than at the big Watteau exhibition of 1984-85, but that the selection is more focused and unproblematic. The bulk of the drawings are from the Louvre and British Museum, but there are a number from…
Deanna Petherbridge – The Primacy of Drawing
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Lectures Deanna Petherbridge – The Primacy of Drawing Deanna Petherbridge is an artist, writer and curator primarily concerned with drawing. Her recent book The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice is about the direct experience of artists, the historical role of drawing and its relationship to the sciences. From the publisher’s website: This important and original book affirms the significance of drawing as visual thinking in western art from the fifteenth century to the present through an examination of its practice: how and why it is made, how it…
Lecture: The Primacy of Drawing
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Lecture The Primacy of Drawing Professor Deanna Petherbridge CBE, artist and writer The Primacy of Drawing is written from the perspective of a practitioner and by juxtaposing contemporary and historical works. Author, Deanna Petherbridge investigates how thinking and making are linked within the linearity and immediacy of drawing, the strategies and materials artists employ and how drawing relates to other forms of visual practice. See this post for details of her other lectures in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra https://melbourneartnetwork.com.au/2011/02/28/deanna-pethebridge-the-primacy-of-drawing/ http://www.deannapetherbridge.com/ Date: Monday 7th March, 6pm. Venue: NGV International, Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International…
Call for Papers ‘Aesthetics and Techniques of Lines between Drawing and Writing’ (Florence, 2011)
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Call for Papers Aesthetics and Techniques of Lines between Drawing and Writing International Conference (CIHA Colloquium), Florence 30 June – 2 July 2020 Lines and lineaments are fundamental concerns in many cultures. They can be constitutive elements of pictorial and scriptural systems, as well as a combination of both. Lines can separate or intersect, they can connect or link. Drawn, inscribed, incised or woven into a surface they create or articulate space, denote orientation or movement, they present or represent, they signify or carry out meaning, they cancel or cross…