RESEARCH EVENTS
DRAWING: Transformative Matter - Material Trace
Collective and individual activities undertaken by the group expands current AUB research interests which connect the practice of drawing to: states of flux and real time events; site specificity and bound and unbound spaces; light and the ephemeral; tensions between processes of change and structural stability; repetition, revision and deletion.
Research Group Meetings at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Led by Chris Dorsett, Research Associate at PRM
The group discussed key themes of potential enquiry related to objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Associations were made between museum objects, their stories and histories and academic writings about these. Ideas were then explored through our drawn responses to a series of linked prompts
Collaborative Session with Chris Dorsett in CRAB Drawing Studio, Arts University Bournemouth
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Research AUB Drawing Research Group at The Garage, Center for Hindu Studies, Oxford.
Drawing Research Group members, Chris Dorsett and other researchers from Pitt Rivers Museum, have been working collaboratively and individually at the former Belsyre Garage, Centre of Hindu Studies, Oxford. The space is temporarily housing an extensive Tagore Archive. This has been used both as a studio and temporary pop-up exhibition space.
A week long workshop led by DRG Claire Baskerville at Belsyre Garage, Centre of Hindu Studies, Oxford.
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Ichiro Sugimoto at Center for Hindu Studies, Oxford
Working in collaboration with Professor Siân Bowen, Honoury Research Associate, Kew and Resident Artist at the Economic Botany Collection, Ichiro Sugimoto conducted talks and workshops with members of the Drawing Research Group. Sharing his extensive research on ecology approaches to growing and dyeing with the ancient plant of akane, a traditional silk braiding and dyeing workshop was undertaken at the Center for Hindu Studies, Oxford.
