DRN Conferences and Events

The DRN hosts events on behalf of the drawing community on a semi regular basis. This page serves as a repository for current and previous events.

Drawing Research Network Events- organised by the Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University

DRN2025 Drawing Negation Online Events:

Emergence 23rd April 2025 – Recording

DRN2024 Drawing Repetition Online Events:

DRN2023 Drawing in Relation Online Events:

The Order of the Drawing – exhibition curated by Arno Kramer

Spaces of Care 7th June 2023 – Recording

Sound & Motion 17th May 2023 – Recording

Affect & Agency 19th April 2023 – Recording

Dialogic Exchange 15th March 2023 – Recording

DRN2022 Ecologies of Drawing Online Events:

Ecologies of Drawing: In-Situ – exhibition curated by Sara Schneckloth

DRN2021 Temporal Drawing Online Events:

Drawn to Time – exhibition curated by Susan Kemenyffy
Queer Traces 9^th June 2021 – Recording

Previous DRN events

DRN2019: Embodied Drawing (Schedule) 11-12/07, Loughborough University, UK.

DRN2018: PhD Drawing Research Methodologies, 08/09, Loughborough University, UK.

DRN2017: Drawing||Phenomenology: tracing lived experience through drawing, 07-08/09, Loughborough University, UK.

DRN2016: Tracing the Bridge. 05-06/09, Loughborough University, UK.

DRN2014: PhD Drawing Methodologies, co-convened with Prof Jill Journeaux, 23/10, Coventry University, UK.

DRN 2013: Interweavings: Pedagogy, Methodology and Research. 24-26/10, Teachers College Columbia University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

DRN 2012: Drawing Knowledge. 10-11/09, Loughborough University, UK

DRN 2011: Drawing Research Network. 05/10, Lisbon, Portugal

DRN 2010: Observation:Mapping:Dialogue. 14/09, University of Brighton, Grand Parade Campus, UK

DRN 2009: Thinking Through Drawing. 08/10, Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, London, UK