DRAW

What is DRAW?

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DRAW was launched in March 2008 - a dialogue between practitioners, ex-students and current students, and a place for personal drawing projects to be seen alongside those of an invited artist. It aims to extend the uses of drawing and create crossovers between graphic design, moving image and illustration in Communication Art and Design'

The Royal College really pushed my buttons here. Not only did it allow an insight into the minds of many amazing artists through random scrawls on a variety of platforms, but also provided discussions that you as the viewer could contemplate. The preliminary work displayed, mostly in the form of moleskin sketchbooks (of course) and also on rather unorthodox mediums such as envelopes and napkins, was highly interesting - giving a real sense of progression from idea to visual. The importance of drawing across many of the communication disciplines was strongly impressed, namely addressing its significance in laying the foundations for ideas and projects. I feel this very strongly myself, feeling it much more natural to put pen to paper than to launch into an elaborate idea.

'A celebration of drawing as both process and outcome'

Featured Artists and Tutors at the college included Andrzej Klimowski and Anne Howeson.