Lines of Enquiry
dal 14/7/2006 al 16/9/2006
Segnalato da
14/7/2006
Lines of Enquiry
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Thinking through drawing. The exhibition includes drawings by physicists, geologists, architects, engineers, zoologists, archaeologists, palaeontologists, geneticists, surgeons, historians, philosophers, and composers as well as artists.
Thinking through drawing
'I can't draw' is a common plea but we all draw at some time, and even with cameras in our phones, sometimes only a drawing will do.
Lines of Enquiry looks at drawing as an exploratory and explanatory tool. From the wobbliest doodle to elaborately detailed expositions, the exhibition shows how we use drawing to think through problems, find out how things work, visualise concepts, order information and communicate to other people.
The exhibition includes drawings by physicists, geologists, architects, engineers, zoologists, archaeologists, palaeontologists, geneticists, surgeons, historians, philosophers, and composers as well as artists.
Among the drawings are Sir Roger Penrose's visual reinterpretations of Einstein's relativity equation, Sir John Sulston's genome explorations, Sir Colin St John Wilson's original ideograms for the British Library, Tariq Ahmad's drawings for plastic reconstruction surgery, Richard Seymour's 360 drawing of Piccadilly Circus, Richard Deacon's interlaced layerings, Gerry Gilmore's back of a letter exposition of the structure of the Milky Way, and Sir Harry Kroto's discovery of the C60 carbon atom.
The exhibition provides a backdrop to a summer of drawing activity and workshops. Organised by Barry Phipps, it is a development of 'On the Way to Things', an exhibition held at Churchill College, Cambridge earlier this year.
Something is happening every Saturday during this exhibition
Saturday talks about drawing in the gallery, including: Barry Phipps, organiser of 'Lines of Enquiry'; Tariq Ahmad, reconstructive plastic surgeon; Martin Rudwick, historian; Philip Ball, medical illustrator; Patrick Lynch, architect; Brad Amos, microscopist.
Saturday workshops: Drawing Differently
Workshops led by artists and contributors from other disciplines exploring radically different approaches to drawing.
Artist Glenn Sujo working with automotive designer Robert Egan.
Artist Claude Heath and New Music Fellow Anton Lukoszevieze.
Artist Issam Kourbaj working with palaeontologist Jenny Clack.
Kettle's Yard
Castle Street - Cambridge