Supporting access to the arts and sharing the love
Drawing is a RAW and fundamental activity.
Long before we learn to write we draw, often for the sheer love of making marks on paper. Yet, despite this essentiality, the pursuit of drawing for its own sake is all too often seen as an exclusive activity and deemed unreachable by most.
The scoring, boxing up and labelling of creative potential starts at an early age. At some point in childhood, a judgement is cast—often by our own volition—rigidly demarcating those that can draw and those that supposedly can’t.
How did we ever get to think like this?
Creativity is neither a static nor rigid entity, it is a continuum; a flow that never stops, and it lives within all of us, waiting to be discovered and re-ignited.
It is time to shake up these tired notions. Light the fire and see what happens. The more you work the line, the more you learn. Drawing is a practice. All you need is a surface to make a mark and, of course, a bold heart.
Observation and reflection, accident and serendipity, wild and controlled, imagination and the unimaginable, it all pours out onto the drawing surface once you begin.
It starts with a line.
dRAWing Space was set up to help everyone find their unique creative voice. Working with like-minded creative organisations and individuals seeking to increase access to the arts, dRAWing Space offers live drawing sessions and events at cultural venues across the South West region. Many events are collaborations, bringing together artists from different art forms to open up and extend the practice of drawing.