Steve
You are right - and yes anyone CAN draw, which is fine- but not necessarily very well. So yes it's therapy for some, including the funders, but that's ok too.
H
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great idea, but................... I just have to say how much I hate it when people say "anyone can draw! " or "anyone can paint!" as an inducement to get people off the streets and into a funding exercise for some arty folks. If it is true that anyone can draw and anyone cant paint, then why do so many of us spend years, getting into debt, studying one of the art based courses in our universities? Sorry, just a little thing with me, had to get it off my chest, probably not the right place, but hey......... anyway, apart from that.......
cheers
steve
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:25:37 +0000From: [log in to unmask]: QUICK ON THE DRAW! 2008To: [log in to unmask]
QUICK ON THE DRAW! Ken Baynes and Krysia Brochocka are in the early stages of planning a new exhibition on drawing for 2008 (further information below). One of the sections of the exhibition is titled ‘The Great Wall’ and they are inviting individuals, businesses and academic groups to help in identifying and locating possible exhibits.
If you would like to suggest an idea send a brief outline to Steve Garner ([log in to unmask]) and I will forward to the organisers. If selected, drawings can be submitted as originals on paper or digital files (all exhibits on The Great Wall will be digital). Please don't send images at this stage - just a brief suggestion or proposal.
Steve Garner
QUICK ON THE DRAW! (Further information) The exhibition will open at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh during the 2008 Festival. It will travel to Croydon Clocktower and the Harley Gallery at Welbeck in the East Midlands. One further showing is planned.
The exhibition will show how people in many walks of life use drawing as an essential part of their work. It will reveal how they use drawing to help them understand, think, work out problems and communicate ideas and information to other people.
The show is designed to appeal to all age groups. The exhibits will be selected to appeal to people from differing backgrounds and with varied interests. There will be a range of practical activities which visitors can join in.
The exhibition makes the following propositions: ‘Drawing is an intellectual activity that links sensing, feeling, thinking and doing. Making and interpreting marks is fundamental to all peoples and cultures. Drawing begins at a very early age. Drawing is extraordinarily versatile and has a huge repertoire of forms and uses. In the Twenty-first century drawing continues to be as widely used as it always was. Its scope and power has been dramatically extended by the computer.’
The exhibition illustrates the way very different people use drawing for very different purposes.
The show will have three sections.
1. THE GREAT WALL OF DRAWINGS
A visual bombardment of drawings used in an astonishing range of different activities, trades and professions. An A to Z of the uses of drawing from architect to zoologist by way of choreographer, forger, joiner, meteorologist, tattooist and many many others.
2. DRAWINGS WORKING
Case studies looking in detail at the uses of drawing in particular projects. The drawings will be seen in context, highlighting their value and function in achieving an end result.
3. EVERYONE CAN DRAW! Opportunities to explore drawing through a variety of games, challenges and media.
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