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CENTRE fOR DRAWING
A network designed to encourage; creative
thinking and cross-disciplinary discovery that
is focused on the scholarly and imaginative
exploration of the boundaries of drawing.
The Centre for Drawing is based at CCW, led by
Professor Stephen Farthing, the Rootstein
Hopkins Research Professor of Drawing, University
of the Arts London and a curatorial group
of research active artists with a special interest in
drawing from across CCW Graduate School
and University.
The centre was originally founded in 2000 at
Wimbledon College of Art, it then became a University
of the Arts London research centre in
2008. By 2011 the centre had developed a secondary
school curriculum and award in drawing,
launched of a cross-disciplinary MA in drawing
and built a focused network of members who
regularly met to develop projects. By Spring 2011
the core membership realized it had achieved
many of its founding goals and decided that the
development of a specialist international
knowledge sharing forum should be its priority.
In September 2011, with the development
of a specialist international knowledge sharing
forum in mind, a Blog was designed to serv-
ice communication between network members
and as a means of advertising and supporting
the focused events organised each year.
On 3 November 2011, 2–4pm a Symposium will
be held to coincide with an exhibition of contemporary
drawing organized by CCW Professors
Paul Coldwell and Stephen Farthing. The
exhibition Interpretation/Translation will take
place from 4 November – 9 December 2011 at
Wimbledon College of Art Gallery.
The 28–30 March 2012 will see the Conference
Drawing Out 2012, the second in a series
of creative collaborations organized by RMIT
University, Melbourne, Australia and Univer-
sity of the Arts London. Both collaborations
centre on the exploration of trans-disciplinary
approaches to drawing. The first day of the
Conference will be held at The National Gallery,
Trafalgar Square, London with speakers
from RMIT, University of the Arts London and
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburg,
United States). The following two days will take
place on University of the Arts London sites
where the Conference will explore ways in which
drawing functions as a part of literacy with
particular reference to: drawing and notation;
drawing as writing; drawing, recording and
discovery.
For more information: http://thecentrefordrawing.
myblog.arts.ac.uk
Stephen farthing, Drawing Out 2012, part of The Centre for Drawing, crayon on paper, 2011
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