DRAWING RADICAL ARTICULATIONS | WORK

Drawing is one of the most economical and democratic methods of expression requiring only a mark-making tool and surface. The tools have altered into technological innovation in animation, the body, and objects as tools while the surfaces have evolved into the ground, sites, and even buildings. Drawing is now ‘drawing with, and ‘drawing in’ (Ingold, 2013), focusing on process and critical relationships.   This network brings together a range of drawing methods to explore this potential including feminism, post-colonialism, play theory, activism, critical theory, and new materialism, united by an emphasis on drawing practice.

 We are particularly interested in drawing ecologies in relation to localities, climate change, and political and environmental intersections of place, gender, and cultural ecologies in the broadest sense due to the increased research on our entanglements with environments. We embrace innovations with ethnographic drawing, Drawing as Mapping, De-colonisation of drawing, drawing as data and policy, and Drawing acts/performances/films in terms of located and situated bodies and our work extends to entanglements of non-human species to think of ecologies in terms of kinship and correspondence.

Our logo includes a line for understanding the drawing is line making (Ingold, 2007) and how we use drawing to articulate as a system of lines.