{"id":208,"date":"2021-05-25T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2021-12-14T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T09:21:57","slug":"drawing-matters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/drawing-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Matters 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drawing Matters was a one-day symposium, convened by Vanessa Corby, Lucy O\u2019Donnell and Sally Taylor at York St John University in 2017.  This DRN publication and the associated special edition in <a href=\"https:\/\/ojs.lboro.ac.uk\/TRACEY\/issue\/view\/226\">TRACEY<\/a> set out the circumstances and questions that led to this event and the drawing-led investigations that emerged from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title Drawing Matters was chosen not simply to affirm an a priori significance for the medium and its materials, but as a provocation that asked participants to consider the matters arising for and from drawing at a time of increasingly unstable socio-political circumstances: what practical purposes can drawing serve in these uncertain and divisive times? How enabling or disabling are the current theoretical frameworks at our disposal in this context? &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These questions grew out of our collaboration as artists, writers, and The Prison Drawing Project (Scarborough, North Yorkshire, 2016) in which O\u2019Donnell and Taylor both participated. We gathered people together in York to find out if they had any traction in the wider drawing community; to learn more about the creative strategies that artists, anthropologists, and curators had devised to explore the human potential of drawing. How had they circumvented the conventions of representation that govern popular perceptions of good drawing and the barriers that limited arts engagement. Three years later, we continue to ask how interventions in and through drawing can matter in positive ways for lives lived outside the academy, and what reciprocal impact they might have on the discourse written for the medium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#eaeaea\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/?page_id=259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/matters.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/matters.jpg 622w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/matters-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/drawing-matters-2021-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"URL\">Exhibition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curated by Kate Black <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Corby-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/corby.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/corby.jpg 391w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/corby-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Corby-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Corby-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\">Going Along Together: Drawing, Dialogue and the Curation of the Work of Sally Taylor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vanessa Corby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#eaeaea\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Hodson-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/image-12.png 614w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/image-12-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Hodson-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Hodson-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\">Out Into the World: Drawing and the Ethnographic Moment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth A. Hodson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Taylor-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/image-13.png 643w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/image-13-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Taylor-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Taylor-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\">The Insistence of Drawing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anita Taylor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#eaeaea\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/433305887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/Wallis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/Wallis.jpg 570w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/Wallis-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Wallis-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/tracey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/10\/Wallis-DRN-Drawing_Matters_2021.pdf\">From the Ground Up: Drawing Residency Film<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Wallis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing Matters was a one-day symposium, convened by Vanessa Corby, Lucy O\u2019Donnell and Sally Taylor at York St John University in 2017. 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