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Essential Information

Type Conferences
Location
Date and Times Saturday 11 March | 10am-5pm
Prices Free

Join us for a day spent investigating and circumnavigating drawing in its many expanding and challenging forms.

What will the symposium cover?

This free, inclusive symposium launches the 'Drawn Together' season of drawings, which offers an engaging and dynamic celebration of drawing.

'Circumnavigation' will combine discussions from artists, community participants and experts alongside workshops, active drawing sessions, and drawing performances, to explore how drawing belongs to all of us.

It will highlight the importance of drawing as a tool to navigate the challenges we personally and collectively face.

The symposium will take inspiration from Royal Museums Greenwich's collections and our exhibition The Van de Veldes: Greenwich Art and the Sea.

Chloe Briggs in the process of making the piece called 'drawing for Paris'

'Circumnavigation' has been developed and produced by Drawing Correspondence, a collective of artists, educators and theorists who have drawing at the heart of their practice. The collective consists of Anita Taylor, Tania Kovats and Chloe Briggs.

Join us to explore, celebrate and expand drawing together.

Take part

This downloadable booklet contains prompts to help you start drawing at Royal Museums Greenwich and to navigate the collections in a way that is meaningful to you.

Speakers and performers

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Anita Taylor

An artist, writer and educator, Anita Taylor is the Founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and Drawing Projects UK. Her work explores the female subject and identity, and interrogates notions of the self-portrait.

As part of her work with the 'Drawing Correspondence' collective, she will look at the power of women's faces in Royal Museums Greenwich's collections.

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Tania Kovats

Tania Kovats is a visual artist, curator and author who uses forms including sculpture and installation to chart our connection with the landscape. 

Her drawing practice explores our relationship with the sea.

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Chloe Briggs

Chloe Briggs is an artist and educator whose work explores the connective power and joy of drawing together.

She is the founder of Drawing is Free, an initiative that gives people of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to bond over art.

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Imogen Tedbury

Imogen Tedbury is Royal Museums Greenwich’s Curator of Art (Pre-1800). She is part of the team responsible for the upcoming exhibition The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea.

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Charmaine Watkiss

Drawing is central to Charmaine's practice, and she uses the language of drawing to create what she calls "memory stories". She creates these stories primarily through research connected to the African Caribbean diaspora, and then maps the stories onto life sized figures.

Charmaine's work can be found in the collections of noted institutions such as The British Museum, Leeds Art Gallery, the Government Art Collection and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (USA) to name a few.
 

 

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Adam Dant

The winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2002, Adam Dant is an artist and speaker. Hailed as "the modern-day William Hogarth", he creates intricate map prints that interrogate modern life.

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Emma Stibbon RA

Working primarily in drawing and print on paper, Emma Stibbon's practice depicts environments that are undergoing transformation, such as the polar regions.

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Hondartza Fraga

Hondartza Fraga is an artist who is interested in our relationship with scientific images of space and the ways in which artistic responses to these might give us new meanings.

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M.Lohrum

M.Lohrum is a performative drawing specialist, who explores drawing as a consequence or a residue of a performative process, where the body, gesture, physicality and movement are key factors, and mark making and traces are a visual expression of movement-based thinking.

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SENsory Social Club

This club for adults with Special Educational Needs has been investigating drawing as a form of communication by making links between gestures and mark making.

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Saturday Art Club

Royal Museums Greenwich's very own youth group will look at the importance of drawing.

Important information

Please note that you will need to book a free admission ticket to attend this event. Due to limited capacity, please inform bookings@rmg.co.uk if you can no longer attend.

For our drawing enthusiasts unable to attend the event in person, the day will be live streamed on Zoom.

If you have any further questions about the event, please contact learning@rmg.co.uk

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Images courtesy of the artists. Banner image by M.Lohrum