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DRA|W

DRA|W was founded by Joanna Leah and is led by the core team Joanna Leah, Simon Ringe and Philippa Jackson from Leeds Beckett University.

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What is DRA|W about?

DRA|W is a research network centred on drawing as one of the most economical and democratic forms of expression, requiring only a mark-making tool and a surface. As drawing has evolved, its tools now include technological innovation, animation, the body and objects, while its surfaces extend to grounds, sites and buildings. Drawing has become a practice of “drawing with” and “drawing in” (Ingold, 2013), foregrounding process, relation and critical exchange.

The network brings together diverse approaches to drawing practice, including feminism, post-colonialism, play theory, activism, critical theory and new materialism. These strands are connected through a shared commitment to expanded drawing and its potential to generate new forms of knowledge, encounter and research.

DRA|W is especially interested in drawing ecologies in relation to locality, climate change, and the political and environmental intersections of place, gender and cultural ecologies in the broadest sense. This reflects growing research into our entanglements with environments and with one another. The network embraces developments in ethnographic drawing, drawing as mapping, the decolonisation of drawing, drawing as data and policy, and drawing acts, performances and films. These approaches attend to located and situated bodies while also extending to the entanglements of non-human species, considering ecology through kinship and correspondence.

Our logo includes a line that reflects an understanding of drawing as line-making (Ingold, 2007) and of drawing as a way to articulate systems of lines, relations and connections.

The network is supported by a Steering Group of Nick Aikman from DRN (Drawing Research Network), Órla Bates for DRA|W Eire, Rachel Welford from Watermarks Collective, Five Years Correspondence, and Nicholas Shearon our zine producer.

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