Continuing the 2025 Drawing Research Network events, the Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University are pleased to invite submissions for an online exhibition of drawing, curated by Deborah Harty, Isabel Herrera-González and Fan Ye. The exhibition will investigate the question, how can lived experience be translated into drawing? We invite responses to the question from anyone engaged in drawing in the expanded field.

Drawing can be said to be an intimate or near-universal language, the making of traces – traces left by our bodies through movement. Drawing can be a record of time. When we look at a drawing, we can recall the time that the artist has solidified in the work through the traces left. Drawing is also an action that contains the artist’s choices: the choice to respond to art history, the choice of materials, the choice of the act of drawing itself, and of course the choice of the content of expression. It has the potential to communicate tacit knowledge and reach across cultural and linguistic barriers. And so, we ask, how can drawing function as a form oftranslation for sensorial or embodied experience?

Please submit up to 3 drawings or a single audio/video file in response to the question using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfS_8RGLsOvHMpYpDPIiBB1B4Xfx_80jT2qLxfWpX3pVdWzXQ/viewform?usp=header

Full information and details including acceptable file types are clearly shown on the submission form.

Deadline for submission: 26^th June 2025.

Biographies:

Deborah Harty is an artist-researcher and senior lecturer at Loughborough University. She is co-director of the Drawing Research Network and the online journal TRACEY drawing and visualisation research with Russ Marshall. Harty also acts as the Chair of the Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University. Her current practice research investigates the premise that drawing is phenomenology.

Isabel Herrera-González (1996) is a doctoral student and teacher at the Department of Drawing at the University of Seville, Spain. As a member of the Research Group HUM1025: Creation, Graphic Art, Aesthetics, and Gender, her research focuses on contemporary drawing and feminism at an international level.

Fan Ye is a Lecturer at Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, her main research and practice focus on expanding the expressive dimensions of ink art through traditional Chinese painting materials.