There is a new drawing magazine out there. The first issue on drawing sculpture is out now. This is how the magazine describes what it is about:
Artists’ Drawings publishes drawings made by artists, with a focus on how drawing can be used to develop and articulate ideas. It considers ‘the artist’ to be anyone who engages in a creative pursuit and follows a broad interpretation of drawing and drawings, holding an equal interest in objects made as part of a process and as outcomes in themselves. Led by images and intentions, it combines drawings made today with others from the near and distant past.
From issue 1 artists' drawings
I like the fact that they use a diagram to articulate how drawing can be used to both support sculpture, as a sculptural process and to be sculpture and I felt it chimed with one of my earlier posts whereby I considered drawing as thin sculpture.
Page layout examples
The magazine is cleanly presented and the no fuss layout ensures that you can focus on the drawings presented, as you are not having to negotiate a clever design which is sometimes the case when a publisher wants to showcase their 'art' credentials.
It's always good to see someone taking drawing seriously as a practice, especially in a time of harsh economic reality when artists are struggling to continue to make work using expensive materials and processes. Drawing has always been the most democratic of the visual arts, the fact that it can be done on the back of an old envelope, with a stick in the sand or on the pavement with a lump of chalk, ensures that it will maintain its centrality as a communication tool to all peoples in all communities.
The first issue features the work of a wide variety of artists, both contemporary and historical, a practice that I welcome, as it helps to remind us that drawing is an ancient practice, one that can be mined as a resource over and over again.
Artists featured:
Cos Ahmet, Kate Appleby, Olivia Bax, Stu Burke, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Isabelle Carr, Paul Cezanne, Ben Coleman, Simon Lee Dicker, Marcel Duchamp, Charlie Franklin, G. Tyler Honn, Laura Fitzgerald, FollowTheSun, Angel Greenham, Tim Ingleby, Mykola Kornilov, Machinic Protocols – Edouard Cabay, Katya Mora, Rachel Mortlock, Sebastian Messer, Jay Ottewell, Matt Page, Auguste Rodin, Jenni Rope, Ben Rowe, Ulrich Rückriem, Victoria Sharples, Richard Tuttle, Paul Valéry, Ruolan Zhang.
This first issue also showcases the work of 5 participating artists, Olivia Bax, makes drawings from her sculpture, Ben Coleman makes collages in a similar way to how he makes his sculpture, Stu Burke explores the possibilities of folding, Isabelle Carr explores space shaped time through drawing and Victoria Sharples who explores medico/religious imagery using a drawing practice that she understands as sculptural in its own right, an approach that takes me back to my thoughts on drawing as thin sculpture.
I was particularly interested in Victoria Sharples' practice as I have recently been working in a hospital and exploring the relationship between emotional and scientific approaches to visualising medical conditions.
Do follow the link to the magazine below and try to support this new venture if you can by ordering the paper version.
See also:
artist's drawings The link to the magazine