Drawbridge Launch Event

Drawbridge-Drawing Research Hub based at MTU CCAD

Drawbridge - Drawing Research Hub based at MTU Crawford College of Art &amp; Design proudly welcomes you to our Launch Event!

Drawbridge - the first research hub of its kind to be established within the MTU Crawford College of Art &amp; Design campus - was founded by Dr Helen Farrell and Dr Lucy Dawe-Lane to facilitate opportunities for researchers, students and artists to collaborate and exchange ideas around contemporary drawing practice. With a focus on promoting the capability of drawing to give form to thought Drawbridge are currently engaging in drawing projects and collaborations with the aim of consolidating current drawing practice and research activity within MTU. This mini-symposium offers a taste of what is to come and celebrates the launch of the Drawbridge website.With great pleasure Drawbridge will be introducing some incredible speakers with connections to Cork and MTU to explore and celebrate the diversity of drawing research:2.10 - 2.40pm - Key Note Discussion between Professor Maggie Cusack (President of Munster Technological University MTU) and Visual Artist Rachel DuckhouseTitle of Presentation: Shell Meets Bone: Drawing as Collaborative ResearchProfessor Maggie Cusack FRSE | President of MTU: Maggie did her BSc degree in Cell Biology at the University of Glasgow and her PhD in Protein Biochemistry at the University of Liverpool. Continuing protein research, Maggie began multidisciplinary work, moving to Geosciences at the University of Glasgow. She was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship where she established a research group in biominerals. As well as research and teaching commitments, she was Associate Dean for the Faculty of Physical Sciences Graduate School, International Lead for the College of Science &amp; Engineering and Head of School of Geographical &amp; Earth Sciences. In 2017 Maggie joined the University of Stirling as Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. In 2018, she completed the Senior Executive Programme of the London Business School. Maggie was awarded the Saltire Society’s Scottish Science Award in 2008, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2011 and, in 2017, she was awarded the Schlumberger Medal by the Mineralogical Society. On 1st January 2021, Maggie took up the role of Inaugural President of MTU.Rachel Duckhouse: Rachel Duckhouse is a visual artist based in Glasgow. She works on research-based projects to explore repeated rhythms, patterns and structures found in different contexts, including landscape, architecture and biological systems. She has undertaken several research-based artist residencies in the UK and abroad and has exhibited in the UK and internationally.2.40 - 3.00pm - Dr Ed Krčma - Professor of Art History UEATitle of Presentation: Susan Morris, Drawing, and Technological CaptureBiography: Ed Krčma is Associate Professor Art History at the University of East Anglia. He arrived at UEA in 2015 after working as a lecturer at University College Cork for seven years. Ed is an historian of modern and contemporary art, with a particular interest in the history and theory of drawing after 1945. He has written scholarly articles on artists such as Eva Hesse, Tacita Dean, Pavel Büchler and Robert Rauschenberg, and has been commissioned to write catalogue essays by, for example, Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. His first monograph, Rauschenberg / Dante: Drawing a Modern Inferno, was published by Yale University Press in 2017.3.00 - 3.20pm - Dr Brian Fay - Visual Artist / TUD Fine art LecturerTitle of Presentation: From a Surface and Below: Drawing and What is VisibleBiography: Brian Fay is an Artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at TU Dublin. Using drawing he examines the materiality of pre-existing artworks and objects to consider our complex relationships to time. He exhibits nationally and internationally and has been invited onto the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency Programme 2022. His work is in the Arts Council Collection, National Drawing Collection, Crawford Art Gallery, DLR Art Collection and the Office of Public Works. He holds a practice led PhD from Northumbria University, and was the winner of the 2014 Derwent International Drawing Prize and the 2016 AXA Drawing Prize.3.20 - 3.40pm - Dr Lucy Dawe-Lane - CCAD Fine Art LecturerTitle of Presentation: Thinking Drawing: A Note on Two Leonardo Drawings and Other ExplorationsBiography: Lucy Dawe-Lane is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Theory at MTU Crawford College of Art and Design. Before joining MTU in 2001, Lucy’s career focussed upon the mediation of visual art in academic, institutional and community settings working as Assistant Curator, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge in the 1980s, then Head of Community Education, Whitechapel Gallery, London in the 1990s. Her doctoral research Bochner’s Intermittent Objects: Aesthetics, Embodiment and Affect in Conceptual Art (NCAD 2016) reflects her current research interests in the interrelation of visual art, writing, drawing, script, speech, embodiment, and performativity. Recent catalogue essays on drawing include ‘Maths Happens’ in Boolean Expressions: Contemporary Art and Mathematical Data. The Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, 2016 and ‘Early Music’ in Charlie Sheard: The Music of Pure Abstraction (2021) to coincide with his currently showing Body in Time exhibition at the Fosun Art Centre, Shanghai.3.40 - 4.00pm - Break4.00 - 4.30pm - Launching of Website | Thanking of funders and supporters | Presentation of Drawbridge video trailer: This project is funded as part of MTU’s ‘Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement 2020’ funding from the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, coordinated by the Teaching and Learning Unit.

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