Hello Caroline
Each year I get a new definition of drawing from my PGCE Art students, usually a group of about 40. They each bring to the studio a statement about or definition of drawing of no more that 30 words which they are then required to write/draw out in charcoal on A2 writing/drawing paper made from recycled National Curriculum Art documents, so that the overthrow of the old becomes imprinted on the new. They keep repeating the definition until the paper is filled.
They are then instructed to rub/smudge out every third word of the repeated definition and asked to read the new definition to the group, to read their drawing aloud.
We then put all 40 A2 sheets on a wall to form a panel of modified drawn/written definitions and form a collaborative 'defined' drawing.
The reason for this workshop is to draw attention to the relationship between a pedagogical process (a didactic model in this case) and the way that the drawing becomes defined through this process. Inevitably, I have to become a bit of a fascist for this to work, to step out of role. The students then attempt to deconstruct the entire workshop from the 'perspective' of artist and teacher.
This is probably of no help to you at all but might be of interest.
Howard Hollands
Middlesex University
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Hello
I am currently trying to make a definition of drawing.
Are there any texts that you know of that you could recommend me to read?
best wishes
Caroline
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