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8/10/2005

Braw Big Draw

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

The UK's biggest free art event

National Galleries of Scotland launnches the Braw Big Draw

The UK's biggest free art event will have its Scottish launch in Edinburgh next month at the National Galleries of Scotland's Braw Big Draw. Part of a nationwide campaign, The Braw Big Draw will comprise a day of creative events at the Galleries' sites across the capital, devised to get the people of Scotland drawing. Five drawing workshops will run throughout the day on Sunday 9 October 2005, kicking off UK-wide 'Big Draw' season running throughout October in Scotland.

The National Galleries of Scotland is calling on the young and young-at-heart to join in the fun. Everyone from complete novices to expert scribblers will be welcome and the free NGS bus will transport those wishing to take part in more than one activity between sites.

The Dean Gallery will be the venue for quirky drawing games inspired by Surrealist works on display, while at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art participants will explore the colours, textures and techniques of modern and contemporary works in the collection before creating their own piece of artwork. At the Scottish National Portrait Gallery two drawing workshops are on offer: both artist-led, the first workshop offers an exploration of the architectural details of the much-loved building and the second workshop will investigate themes from The Healing Touch exhibition. The National Gallery of Scotland will be hosting a drawing workshop based on the Gallery's famous painting The Feast of Herod by Rubens, where participants will use their drawing skills to recreate a special feast on paper. Finally, downstairs at the new Weston Link on the Mound, the theme is 'Below the Surface' and budding artists' work will decorate the columns that prop up the magnificent galleries above.

The Braw Big Draw at the National Galleries of Scotland is just the start of a full month of activities and events across Scotland that are part of the national Big Draw.
A complete list of events can be found at http://www.thebigdraw.org.uk.

The Big Draw was launched in 2000 and has encouraged over a million people back to the drawing board as well as notching up two Guinness World Records - for the longest drawing in the world and the greatest number of people drawing simultaneously. Part of the Campaign for Drawing, led by illustrator Quentin Blake CBE, The Big Draw is an annual national event that aims to encourage everyone to discover the pleasures, purposes and power of drawing. The message is that no previous experience is required to get drawing - and you don't know if you can do it until you try.

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LIST OF EVENTS

All events are free and suitable for adults, families and accompanied children unless otherwise stated.

The Shape of Things Unseen
Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road, Edinburgh
10am-3pm

Dare to Draw
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh
10am-3pm

Memories are Made of These
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh
11am-4pm

Individual workshops for adults 11am-12.30pm, 1-2.30pm, 2.45-4.15pm

An Extraordinary Visual Banquet
National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh
11am-4pm

Below the Surface
Weston Link, National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh
11am-4pm

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THE CAMPAIGN FOR DRAWING
The Guild of St George, an educational charity, initiated the Campaign in 2000 to celebrate the centenary of its founder, the great Victorian critic and artist John Ruskin. Ruskin drew almost every day of his life. He valued drawing not primarily as a tool for making art, but as a way of helping others to see as clearly as he did, and to care more for the world around them. The Campaign for Drawing has a simple aim - to get everyone drawing.

The Campaign reminds educators and the widest public of drawing's influence and universality - and its value as a medium for active engagement across the cultural sector. It raises awareness of drawing's power to make us see, think, invent and act. The Campaign's four elements span generations and bridge culture gaps to demonstrate how drawing can change lives.

Power Drawing - the year-round education programme, investigates the nature, values and functions of drawing. It presents evidence of its use in supporting teaching and learning across the curriculum, at every key stage and in community education. Drawing Attractions shows how drawing can provide new and enjoyable ways of responding to the built and natural environment and offers an accessible approach to interpreting and understanding heritage sites. The Drawing Research Network provides a forum for researchers in a wide variety of higher education institutions involved with different areas of professional practice, or its promotion through publications and conferences. The Big Draw, an annual season of events throughout October, is run in partnership with the majority of UK galleries and museums and increasing numbers of heritage sites, libraries and community centres, to open up drawing to all.

Supporters:

THE HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND
The Heritage Lottery Fund supports the Campaign's Drawing Attractions programme, which encourages historic and environmental sites to attract and involve new audiences through drawing.
PERSIL Just as The Big Draw allows everyone to set their imaginations free, Persil believes that getting dirty is a natural part of experiencing and embracing life. The freedom to get dirty is the freedom to explore, imagine, create, learn and develop.
BEROL Berol is actively involved in developing the creative process by providing arts and crafts materials for children of all ages. Berol is sponsoring a marquee in London where children can experiment in designing costumes and is providing free art materials for each launch event.

Patrons:
Quentin Blake CBE, David Hockney CH, Sir Richard MacCormac, Andrew Marr, Sir Roger Penrose OM, Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds MBE, Robert Tear CBE

QUENTIN BLAKE CBE Celebrated children's illustrator Quentin Blake has been a patron of the Campaign for Drawing since its inception. He has designed logos for The Campaign, and actively supports many Big Draw events. "With the Big Draw we seem to have struck something in the national consciousness - it's as though everybody had just been waiting to be told that they are allowed to draw," he comments. "Perhaps it isn't surprising - we live under a bombardment of manufactured images, and in the face of that we need to be able to draw as a way of discovering the reality of the world about us, as well as the life in ourselves."

National Galleries of Scotland
Bridge Lodge, 70 Belford Road - Edinburgh
Direct line: 0131 624 6314

Further information from the National Galleries of Scotland Press Office:
Telephone 0131 624 6325 / 314 / 332 / 247 or e-mail pressinfo@nationalgalleries.org

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