Faculty of Art Media and Design
13 - 16 July 2004
From 13-16 July 2004, the Advanced Centre in Drawing (ACiD) offered a 'practice-based' four day symposium at the Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol.
Each applicant (practicioner) was able to elect themselves to a Drawing Quarter led by an international artist with a particular drawing Philosophy. The artists were: Caroline Broadhead, Grenville Davey, Paul Gough and Humphrey Ocean.
Each Quarter worked together in a studio environment over a three day period on current or new projects, allowing each participant to interrogate not only the nature of his/her practice and its relationship to drawing, but also to engage in some of the current debates within the sectors growing community. An informal studio seminar was convened towards the end of each working day where a number of invited practicioners and theorists contributed to the process. This was followed each evening by lectures from Deanna Petherbridge (UWE Arnolfini Research Professor in Drawing), Tania Kovats (Henry Moore Drawing Fellow) and Anne-Marie Creamer (Evelyn Williams Drawing Fellow).
On the final day of the symposium. the Drawing Quarters came together in an Open Studio exhibition at Bower Ashton. The event concluded with a symposium summary by Deanna Petherbridge and was marked by a publication.
Caroline Broadhead
Caroline Broadhead’s work has developed from objects worn on-the body, to objects that represent the body and to work that emphasises space around the body. Often working with lighf and shade, the pieces have both 2D and 3D elements. She has exhibited world wide, has work in many public collections and, in 1997, her work won the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Textiles.
Grenville Davey
Grenville Davey has developed and sustained his creative works by exhibiting regularly in the UK. In 1992 he was awarded the annual Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery for the continuing development of his sculpture as seen in shows held in Berne and Dusseldorf. He uses drawing to explore the nature of pure form, while also inhabiting the realm of the domestic and industrial. His objects, seemingly out of context, reveal his interest in how we perceive reality.
Paul Gough
Paul Gough Studied Fine Art at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, London. His large scale drawings explore narratives of conflict and commemoration, and his work is represented in the Imperial War Museum, London and the National War Museum in Ottawa. His PhD examined the impact of total war on the landscapes of the Western Front, and the emergence of a visual language that could convey emptiness, absence and compelling narrative.
Humphrey Ocean
Humphrey Ocean had a major one-man exhibition How’s my Driving? at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London in the summer of 2003. He is currently making etchings with the printer Maurice Payne at Miankoma Press, Amagansett, Long Island and is about to work for the third time with filmmaker John Tchalenko.
For a full programme of events for the 2004 Symposium, click here
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