DRAWING INSPIRATION AWARDS

2000

 

'Cartoon County' at Alfresco, West Pier, Brighton Organised by David Edgar Booth, Corinne Pearlman and David Lloyd The Sussex Association of Cartoonists and Comic Strip Artists arranged a drawing celebration at a popular seafront cafe. Over 30 cartoonists encouraged at least 250 visitors of all ages to get drawing and add frames to a giant comic strip.

'The Outdoor Draw' at The Holly Lodge Centre, Richmond Organised by Dr Pat Ealey, Project Co-ordinator Children with special needs and inner city children helped Joan Hickson, creator of Postman Pat, in drawing a mural from careful observation of the park.

'Everybody Can Draw a Self-portrait' at the Yorkshire Artspace Society, Sheffield Organised, funded and run by Carol Lambert and Anne Mawdsley A workshop which inspired unusual approaches to self-portraiture as participants captured their reflections in shiny domestic objects from ladles to saucepans. Later all self-portraits were displayed in the Showroom Cinema Box Office.

'The Big Draw' in the Darwin Shopping Centre, Belmont Arts Centre, Shrewsbury Organised by Neil Rathmell, Creative Arts Adviser Six days of workshops ranging from wheels of every kind creating marks on an enormous sheets of paper, to drawing sounds (via headphones) and tastes (via the Cafe).

'The Big Draw' at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent Organised by Jane Fineren, Learning Development Officer An intensive two week programme which involved artists James Gregory and Ian Naylor. inspiration was drawn from a treasury of museum objects, varying in scale from a Spitfire to a vole. local china manufacturer, Spode, also hosted 'The Big Breakfast' for teenagers in care or registered with the Family Support Agency, involving a free breakfast and a workshop on the factory floor.

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Runners Up (Crayola Materials)

'The Big Draw' at Rothwell Junior School, nr Kettering Organised by Liz Minichiello and Sara Rose The entire community of 400 children and staff, led by their first visiting artist, Liz Minichiello, drew a scaled plan of their newly extended building, and produced an exhibition for Rothwell Library.

'The Big Draw' at the Bentall Shopping Centre, Kingston Organised by Leo Duff, Drawing Research, Faculty of Design, Kingston University University students and staff provided three drawing bases for the entire weekend, leading 3500 shoppers through a mountain of paper and materials. Their work was exhibited three weeks later at the University's Stanley Picker Gallery.

'Inside Out' at Kirkby Gallery & Kirkby Town Centre, Merseyside Organised by Jo Dry, Galleries Officer Over a hundred shoppers and children joined artists Debbie Goldsmith and Hilary Jack and contributed to a thirty metre long drawing on lining paper that trailed through the town centre. Participants who joined artists inside the gallery drew on large sheets of acetate stuck to the gallery window, to create a transparent canvas looking over the library.

'The Big Draw' at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Organised by Katherine Booth Stevens, Clore Education Officer Using the breadth of the collection the Ashmolean Education Service provided an all-day drawing extravaganza which filled the museum with a constant buzz of excitement.

'The Big Draw' at The Study Gallery, Poole Organised by Jem Main, Director Five challenging events over three weeks. 'Drawing the Blues' encouraged participants to draw to a live blues band. 'The Big Draw Day' involved over one hundred visitors in filling a fifty metre roll of paper with drawn responses to the new exhibits and buildings. 'The Nude Descending the Staircase' gave new meaning to the title of Duchamp's famous painting. Three models inspired an ambitious series of sequential and articulated life drawings. 'Three Musicians and Three Dancers' allowed visitors and a concentration of members from Dorsetshire Art Societies to construct an ambitious 3D installation. 'The Girl with the Ponytail' - Sylvette David, the subject of a series of Picasso paintings made 45 years earlier, sat for a primary school group.

'Drawn to Love' at the Jubilee Arts c/PLEX Project, West Bromwich Organised by Emma Checuti, Public Art West Midlands Artist Anne Marie Copestake worked with teenagers from Sandwell, West Midlands, drawing their experiences and feelings about love.

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