Online Event 7th June 2023 11.00 (BST)
Fourth in the series of events organised by the Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University
Tickets are available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drn2023-drawing-in-relation-spaces-of-care-tickets-640189523097

This panel brings together researchers investigating different aspects of care through contemporary drawing practice. 

As primary carers for young families, Penny Davis and Assunta Ruocco reflect on the entwinement of their roles as both artists and mothers. When kindergartens closed during the Covid pandemic, Ruocco’s studio became a space for both art and care. Unable to work independently, the artist consequently initiated a collaborative project with her daughter Louise. With the aid of a scanner and digital printer, their drawings were subsequently produced through a series of interventions and exchanges that led to an ongoing mode of dialogic practice.  In the light of this particular experience, and of the work of Gilbert Simondon, Ruocco will consider the studio as a milieu where relationships between drawing, technology and childcare can be explored.

Through what she terms a matricentric approach, Penny Davis’ drawing practice develops in relation to her children, through observing, recording and visualising the silenced and invisible work that she does as a mother. Through a braided practice of drawing and autoethnography, her presentation will consider drawing as flesh work - this labour being defined as the repetitive actions of a body suspended in the continuous loop of care. Whilst Davis’ drawing practice is evidence of this reproductive work of domestic, cognitive and emotional labour, flesh work still remains invisible in academic study. 

Acts of cleaning are similarly of concern for Belinda Mitchell who will speak about the domestic work undertaken by the small group of volunteers and trustees who take care of the sixteenth-century house Wymering Manor. Working to remake the house for the future, the community are currently exercising what Mitchell refers to as a patience-of-placethrough the continual rearrangement of the house and its artefacts. Exploring alternative modes of knowing through caring, connecting and drawing, Mitchell asks what forms of actions and tools can be used to create vocabularies of care with which to construct the built environment? And how do language and materials perform to create everyday sites of affect – spaces of care?

More information available here: https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/tracey/drn2023-drawing-in-relation-spaces-of-care/

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