DRAW is a Postgraduate Interest Group focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to drawing.
Led by UAL academics Kelly Chorpening, Dan Sturgis and Dr Kimanthi Donkor, DRAW hosts events each term, and is a pan UAL initiative, supported by UAL's Post-Grad Community programme.
DRAW events are open to all UAL postgraduate students, UAL staff, and a wider community of invited alumni, practitioners and researchers in the field.
DRAW stories
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Credit: Trayvond by Amalia Navarro DRAW event with Prof Anita Taylor
This DRAW event showcased the knowledge, experimentation and emotion behind the visual research of the graduating 2018 MA Drawing students at Wimbledon College of Art. During the evening Kimathi Donkor, MA Drawing course leader, hosted us on an
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[…] DRAW event: Curator Isabel Seligman tours the MA Drawing show
Tania Kovats, DRAW leader and MA Drawing Course leader had invited Isabel Seligman Curator for the Bridget Riley Foundation based in the department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum to give her consideration to the work on display.
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Reporting back on the DRAW event ‘Drawing Space with Architect Marcus Beale’
Architect Marcus Beale hosted this DRAW event, giving a presentation on architectural drawing and its unique approach to the challenges of defining space in two dimensions. Beginning with a whirlwind tour of the history of architectural drawing from
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Edouard Manet, The Execution of Maximillian, 1867 to 1869 DRAW: Introducing MA Drawing Course Leader, Dr. Kimathi Donkor
This DRAW event welcomed Dr Kimathi Donkor in his new role as MA Drawing Course Leader. He gave a whistle-stop tour of his 40-year practice, as well as some thoughts on how drawing is important to him.
UAL’s Post-Grad Community Programme supports a growing number of issue-specific, cross-disciplinary interest groups led by postgraduate students and academics.
These groups connect creatives with shared research/practice interests across different specialisms and subject areas.
PhD students have launched interest groups in the past to coincide with exhibitions and symposiums that they have organised under the same theme. Students have also used Interest Groups as a working group towards research or a standalone event or series.
Interest Groups are a great way to build new networks at UAL for MA and PhD students with shared interests. A useful tool for finding cross-disciplinary MA students to work with on planned projects/activities, creating new audiences and ways to formally promote your practice.