Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Drawing is one of the most economic and democratic methods of expression requiring only a mark-making tool and surface. The tools have altered into technological innovation in animation, the body and objects as tools while the surfaces have evolved into ground, site and even buildings. Drawing is now ‘drawing with, and ‘drawing in’ (Ingold, 2013) rather than ‘drawing of’, focussing on process and critical relationships.
This symposium, hosted within our state of the art, Leeds School of Arts Building, Leeds Beckett University will bring together a range of methodologies to explore this potential including feminism, post colonialism, play theory, activism, critical theory and new materialism, united by an emphasis on drawing practice.
Featuring a keynote by Dr Deborah Harty, a practitioner researcher and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Loughborough University and chair of the highly influential Drawing Research Network (DRN).
Dr Deborah Harty is a practitioner researcher and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Loughborough University and is chair of the Drawing Research Network (DRN). Known for her explorations into the phenomenology of drawing based on Merleau Ponty’s phenomenology in The Primacy of Perception: and Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics (1964) and how specific phenomena are apprehended and mediated by the body, the artist’s view of ‘being-in-the-world’, Harty’s research has provided the foundation for many discussions on the time-space of drawing and drawing environments as part of DRN’s ongoing rigour.
