Big Draw 2002 Northern Ireland Launch

Other launch events: London, Scotland, Wales
Finale event: Royal Institution of Great Britain

Ulster Museum

4, 16 & 17 October 2002

Community artist Jim Russell and students from Cookstown High School worked on an enormous charcoal drawing, based on a granary door from Zaire. Pupils from Gilnahirk Primary School worked with Jim Russell, using the 'Aspects of Asia' exhibition as inspiration.

Cookstown High School

Cookstown High School

Cookstown High School
Cookstown High School
Gilnahirk Primary School
Gilnahirk Primary School
Gilnahirk Primary School
Aspects of Asia print
Print Making workshop
Botanical Illustration workshop

20 October

Gilnahirk Primary School

A full afternoon's programme of free demonstrations and workshops based on the Ulster Museum's many varied collections and exhibitions, designed to get all ages drawing. Visitors discovered the tools and materials which Leonardo da Vinci used to create some of the world's most famous drawings (on loan from The Queen's Collection) with paper conservator, Alison Muir. They were then encouraged to experiment with pen and ink, red chalks and metalpoint on specially prepared paper. Deirdre Crone showed how an archaeological illustrator works, while budding natural historians tried their hand at botanical illustration with Diana Oxlade. All afternoon families made 'quick' monoprints in the Aspects of Asia gallery or 'quick gold' prints in the Gold exhibition.

Aspects of Asia print
Diana Oxlade, Botanical Illustrator
Aspects of Asia print