The easy and most popular answer of course, is that drawing means copying down what you see, an object, person or place, onto a piece of paper, probably A4, using a pencil, possibly a 2B one if your doing it "properly"
However, there are many artists out there questioning the meaning of drawing, often overlooked due to bigger and bolder showstopping painting, these artists are bringing drawing to a new level. I went to the Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibiton in Cheltenham to find out more...
The Jerwood Drawing prize is described by its organisers as an exhibition to "promote and reward talent and excellence in contemporary drawing"
The traditional idea of using paper and pencil has been abandoned. Instead artists go to extraordinary lengths to challenge the concept of drawing.
First Prizewinner, Melanie Jackson, created a digital animation, describing the journey of the manufacture of a GPS system, from the mines of Congo and the rubber trees of Sri Lanka to the final location of a single individual. Her insightful work won her the £6,000 prize.
Brighid Lowe won second prize for her "Rain drawing" allowing raindrops to interrupt her lines of ink on paper, creating a hazy dreamlike pattern whilst using the unpredictability of nature as a medium.
Whilst the artist Tim Knowles, tied a biro to a tree and left the wind to move it around a canvas, somehow the result looks like the spiky sharp branch that it came from.
It is this encouragement of innovative and unconventional drawings that the Jerwood drawing prize, now in its 11th year, prides itself on. Allowing artists to question the notion of drawing, its methods and its outcomes, it provides us with an imaginative and thoughtful showcase.
The exhibition runs at Pitville Galleries, Cheltenham until November 18th, and then moves to The Glasgow School of Art until January 12th, it continues to Bristol, Cardiff and finally Newcastle, until 21st May 2008. So go see it now!
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