Partnership Exhibition: Sample-Studios and MTU Drawbridge
Drawing Connections, a partnership exhibition of Sample-Studios, MTU Drawbridge and Crawford Art Gallery, Drawing Connections invites graduates of MTU’s MA:AP programme, whose work encompasses drawing practice, to take part in an exhibition of drawing research work/projects that respond to drawings in the Crawford Art Gallery drawing collection. The exhibition includes projects that explore the expanded field of drawing practice such as the embodied act or performance, site specific response or narrative, as a method of capturing and exploring interactive collaborations.
Drawbridge is a drawing research hub based at MTU Crawford College of Art & Design and came about to facilitate the exploration of ideas around contemporary drawing practice with a shared interest in the experiential and phenomenological nature of drawing, and evident enthusiasm surrounding drawing practice. 11 selected artists were given access to the selected works from the drawing collection in the Crawford Art Gallery as part of National Drawing Day in May 2022 and produced their own work in response to the collection for this exhibition. The selected artists were given a chance to spend time with their selected piece in the Crawford Art Gallery and talk to curators about the piece, and then create their own response to the work.
The exhibition will feature the work of the following artists: