Overview

Using a combination of articles and interviews, the book introduces nine contemporary drawing projects that embrace an expansive definition of the discipline, and use their drawing practice to consider how place is understood and made. Drawing as Placemaking focuses on how drawings and drawing processes can examine and articulate our relationships to placemaking, to our concepts of home, to historical and memorial sites, to our personal histories, and to imagined and actual places. The contributing artists (from the USA, Canada, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and the UK) use expanded drawing approaches to present different perspectives on how drawings are made, and how they can be used to describe, analyse, reimagine, transform and to make new actual, historical, and psychological places. The artist-authored chapters and the conversations with artists are interwoven to facilitate broader conversations about our human interactions with place, through all our senses; what we can see, touch, feel and hear, alongside what we know, theorise or imagine. The re-evaluation of placemaking from a range of cultural perspectives highlights new stories whilst reconsidering older ones. The book reveals new and contemporary insights into the long historical connection between drawing and placemaking and contributes to new debates around placemaking. It offers a deeper understanding of how we use drawing to better define ourselves and our place in the world.

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Author:   Jill Journeaux (Coventry University, UK) ,  Simon Woolham (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN:  

9781350457041

ISBN 10:   1350457043
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   To order  

Table of Contents

Foreword - Dr Anita McKeown – Art Services Unincorporated, and Dr Cara Courage – Head of Tate Exchange Introduction – Simon Woolham and Jill Journeaux Section 1: History and Pace. 1. ‘On Drawing and Dormancy: A Photogrammetric Method of Waking’. Sevcan Ercan and Joe Graham – Kadir Has University, Turkey In conversation 1. Mary Griffiths with Simon Woolham – Independent UK artist 2. ‘Drawing with archaeological excavation and communicating with past landscapes in a post- digital epoch’. Stefan Gant – University of Northampton, UK In conversation 2. Fay Ballard with Jill Journeaux – Independent artist 3. Greig Burgoyne – University for the Creative Arts, UK, ‘Drawing invisible in plain sight’. In conversation 3. Ana Leonor Rodrigues with Jill Journeaux, University of Lisbon Section 2: Environment and Place. 4.‘Liminality: space-making, place-making’. Maria O’Toole – Independent New Zealand artist In conversation 4. David Griffin with Simon Woolham – Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, Canada, 5.‘Installation Drawing as Placemaking: Creating Virtual Place and Physical Space through Representational Drawing’. Juliet Losq – Arts University Bournemouth, UK In conversation 5.Kentaro Chiba with Jill Journeaux – Independent Japanese artist 6.‘Drawing Luton Narratives with Camera-less Photography’. Anna Fairchild – University of Bedfordshire, UK, In conversation 6. Becc Orszag with Jill Journeaux, Independent Australian artist Section 3: Identity and Place. 7. ‘Drawing Attention to the Place of Public Statues of Women’ Claire Anscombe – University of Liverpool In conversation 7. Nikola Dicke with Simon Woolham – University of Osnabrueck, Germany 8. ‘Provisional Interventions: Shifting Drawings’. Joana Pereira – Royal College of Art, UK In conversation 8. Maurice Moore with Simon Woolham - University of California-Davies, USA 9. ‘Drawing at the edge of the map’.Kristin Mojsiewicz – Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK In conversation 9. Pete Codling with Jill Journeaux – Independent UK artist In conversation 10/Concluding thoughts: Simon Woolham in conversation with Professor Anita Taylor, University of Dundee - founding Director of the foremost annual drawing exhibition in the UK, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (since 1994), and Drawing Projects UK, a public-facing initiative dedicated to drawing (since 2009). Index

Reviews

Drawing is an activity of marking oneself in the world, placing the drawer in space and time. Through scholarly essays, artist examples and interviews with artists, this book presents a rich variety of different perspectives on the topic of drawing and placemaking, asking how can drawing examine relationships to inhabited environments and make visible imaginative realms of the mind * Sarah Casey, Professor in Fine Arts and its Histories, Lancaster University, UK *

Author Information

Simon Woolham is an artist, curator at PAPER Gallery in Manchester and lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His practice-led research PhD explored drawing/walking and narrative in physical, virtual, and psychological space, expanding on artists’ residency of the mind. He has exhibited widely, including residencies and exhibitions at The Lowry in Salford and Chapter Gallery in Cardiff, Baltic - Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Jill Journeaux is an artist/researcher, Professor of Fine Art at Coventry University, UK and Director of Drawing Conversations. She has published on expanded drawing practices, including Collective and Collaborative Drawing in Contemporary Practice (2017) and Body, Space and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing (2020). She co-edited The Artist at Home (Bloomsbury, 2024)

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