Post Unit 5.3, Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol, BS4 3EH
Telephone 0845 680 1409
Links
Bristol Drawing School Blog
Blatant self publicity perhaps but we do try and keep our blog up to date with information about artists we like, exhibitions we recommend and other drawing related matters.
http://bristoldrawingschool.blogspot.com/
The Drawing Research Network
The Drawing Research Network is a loose affiliation of individuals and institutions who are involved in some way with drawing research, for example via professional practice, education or the promotion of drawing.
Campaign for Drawing
The Campaign for Drawing was inspired by the great Victorian writer and visionary, John Ruskin. His mission was not to teach people to draw, but how to see.
Drawing can develop skills of perception, communication and invention transferable to any subject and helpful in a variety of educational settings.
Tracey
Tracey is an electronic journal dedicated to the presentation of drawing and the discussion of drawing practice
www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey/
The Drawing Year
‘Fundamental to the course is the assertion of the connection between looking and making images; a belief that genuine conceptual innovation can only be generated by an active engagement with the visual world that surrounds us. Drawing connects what we see with how we think. It is a crucial mediation between the world and our idea of it. It is a way to think, to explore and make shape of the world; one of the most important tools that we have. The point about drawing is its simplicity and its directness. More flexible than language, drawing has the power to express thought in a new way, to communicate with an economy of means. Drawing can be inventive, incisive, precise, surprising, funny and supremely direct. Drawings can show the freedom and individuality of handwriting. Using the most limited of means, drawing can provide one of the most demanding challenges and opportunities for growth to the contemporary artist; visually and intellectually. It is both one of the most simple and the most endlessly complex of human activities. The hand made mark is an ancient form of communication and yet remains one of the most important and innovative means that we have.’
