Using a combination of articles and interviews, the book introduces nine contemporary drawing projects that embrace an expansive definition of the discipline, and use their drawing practice to consider how place is understood and made.
Drawing as Placemaking focuses on how drawings and drawing processes can examine and articulate our relationships to placemaking, to our concepts of home, to historical and memorial sites, to our personal histories, and to imagined and actual places.
The contributing artists (from the USA, Canada, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and the UK) use expanded drawing approaches to present different perspectives on how drawings are made, and how they can be used to describe, analyse, reimagine, transform and to make new actual, historical, and psychological places. The artist-authored chapters and the conversations with artists are interwoven to facilitate broader conversations about our human interactions with place, through all our senses; what we can see, touch, feel and hear, alongside what we know, theorise or imagine. The re-evaluation of placemaking from a range of cultural perspectives highlights new stories whilst reconsidering older ones.
The book reveals new and contemporary insights into the long historical connection between drawing and placemaking and contributes to new debates around placemaking. It offers a deeper understanding of how we use drawing to better define ourselves and our place in the world.
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Drawing is an activity of marking oneself in the world, placing the drawer in space and time. Through scholarly essays, artist examples and interviews with artists, this book presents a rich variety of different perspectives on the topic of drawing and placemaking, asking how can drawing examine relationships to inhabited environments and make visible imaginative realms of the mind * Sarah Casey, Professor in Fine Arts and its Histories, Lancaster University, UK *
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Through nine chapters written by artists and ten conversations with artists, the book examines contemporary drawing practices which engage with sites of history, the environment and narrative, with a focus on experiences of placemaking.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword, Anita McKeown and Cara Courage
Introduction, Simon Woolham and Jill Journeaux
Section I: Introduction to History and Placemaking
Chapter
1. On Drawing and Dormancy: A Photogrammetric Method of Waking,
Sevcan Ercan and Joe Graham
In Conversation
1. Mary Griffiths with Simon Woolham
Chapter
2. Drawing with Archaeological Excavation and Communicating with
Past Landscapes in a Post-Digital Epoch, Stefan Gant
In Conversation
2. Simon Woolham with Anita Taylor
Chapter
3. Drawing Invisible in Plain Sight, Greig Burgoyne
In Conversation
3. Fay Ballard with Jill Journeaux
Section II: Introduction to Environment and Placemaking
Chapter
4. Liminality: Intertwining with the World through Drawing
Methodology. Making Kin with the Natural World in the Pacific Sea of Islands,
Maria OToole
In Conversation
4. David Griffin with Simon Woolham
Chapter
5. Installation Drawing as Placemaking: Creating Virtual Place and
Physical Space through Representational Drawing, Juliette Losq
In Conversation
5. Ana Leonor Rodrigues with Jill Journeaux
Chapter
6. Drawing Luton Narratives with Camera-less Photography, Anna
Fairchild
In Conversation
6. Nikola Dicke with Simon Woolham
In Conversation
7. Becc Ország with Simon Woolham
Section III: Introduction to Identity and Placemaking:
In Conversation
8. Kentaro Chiba with Jill Journeaux
In Conversation
9. Maurice Moore with Simon Woolham
Chapter
7. To Baffle the Place of Mastery: Notes on the Democratic Nature of
Drawing, Joana Pereira
Chapter
8. Drawing at the Edge of the Map, Kristin Mojsiewicz
Chapter
9. Drawing Attention to the Place of Public Statues of Women,Claire
Anscomb
In Conversation
10. Pete Codling with Jill Journeaux
Concluding Thoughts, Jill Journeaux and Simon Woolham
Index
Simon Woolham is an artist, curator and academic based at ROGUE ARTISTS STUDIOS in Manchester and teaches Fine Art at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His practice research often explores the interplay between tactile drawing processes, walking, performance and song-making, evolving layers of histories. He has exhibited widely, including residencies and exhibitions at The Lowry in Salford, Drawing Projects UK in Trowbridge, Chapter Gallery in Cardiff and Baltic - Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. He also performs and expands his practice through his alter-ego, The Frog.
Jill Journeaux is an artist and researcher who was Professor of Fine Art at Coventry University, UK from 2004 until 2024. She is Director of Drawing Conversations and has published on expanded drawing practices, including Collective and Collaborative Drawing in Contemporary Practice (2017) and Body, Space and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing (2020). She co-edited The Artist at Home (Bloomsbury, 2024).
