Drawing Conversations 5:
What and Where Is Home?

Conveners: Greig Burgoyne (University for the Creative Arts, Farnham) and Jill Journeaux (Coventry University, Coventry)

This one-day online international conference seeks to examine the interrelationships of drawing and concepts of home. We aim to bring together artists who use traditional and expanded forms of drawing practices to consider pressing and pertinent issues of our time which centre upon narratives and experiences of belonging. We seek to address how drawing research can intervene into, express, narrate and expound human experiences of belonging, community, migration, displacement and refugeeism, and how drawings can reveal the complexities of home as a psychological, physical, familial, or territorial place.

Drawing Conversations

Drawing Conversations symposia, exhibitions and publications are led by Jill Journeaux. The initial event Drawing Conversations: Collective and Collaborative Drawing held at Coventry University in 2015, was accompanied by the exhibition Drawn Conversations and resulted in the book Collective and Collaborative Drawing in Contemporary Practice, edited by Helen Gorrill and Jill Journeaux. Following the second symposium in 2017 at Coventry University, Drawing Conversations 2: Body, Space, Place, editors Jill Journeaux, Sara Reed and Helen Gorrill was published in 2020. “You and I are Discontinuous Beings”, an exhibition held at Birmingham City University in May 2018, featured new work by the contributors to the first book, and the catalogue included the essay “Drawing as if Dancing Together” by Victoria Mitchell. The Drawing Conversations 3: Drawing Talking to the Sciences symposium convened by Gerry Davies and Sarah Casey was held at The Ruskin, Lancaster University in January 2020 and was accompanied by the exhibition Drawn to Investigate. Drawing Conversations 4: Engaging with sites of History and Narrative took place online in September 2002, was co-convened by Simon Woolham and Jill Journeaux and hosted and supported by Huddersfield University.

See drawingconversations.org for more information.

Schedule

09.30
Greig Burgoyne and Jill Journeaux
Welcome

Home and the Imagination – Chair: Greig Burgoyne

10.00
Garry Barker, Porto University, Portugal
Home is a Belief

10.20
Laura Donkers, Independent Artist/Researcher, Auckland, New Zealand
The Hokianga Community Drawing Project 

10.40
Susanna Crossman, Writer, Clinical Arts-Therapist, Independent Researcher, France
Imagine a House – Imagine a Home

11.00
Isabel Young, Royal College of Art London
The Household Gods: (Drawing as a Ritual Offering)

11.20
Questions

Home and Memory – Chair: Jill Journeaux

11.30
George Saxon, Independent Artist, Birmingham, UK
HOMING IN

11.50
Sofya Markova, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole, Norway
Circumcirco Lene: Observations, Stories and Architectures in/of Displacement

12.10
Rebecca Elves, Independent Artist, Kent, UK
The House Was Like Her: Rebuilding the Post-Traumatic Home Through Expanded Drawing Practices

12.30
Questions

12.45
Lunch Break

13.30-14.00
Keynote by Anna Lovat, Associate Professor Art History, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas, Texas
“Hatred Begins at Home: Thinking Domesticity with the Blk Art Group.”

The Place of Home – Chair: Greig Burgoyne

14.00
Jenny Walden, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Sketch for a Theory of drawing as an ‘unbinding’ of definitions of space, place, or ‘home’

14.20
Pete Codling, Independent Artist, Portsmouth, UK
Wherever I Iay my Hat

14.40
Belinda Mitchell, University of Portsmouth, , Portsmouth, UK
Cultivating home: Drawing interiors

15.00
Jane Reid, Independent Researcher, Newark, UK
The Kitchen Drawer: Explorative encounters with the kitchen and its contents 

15.20
Questions

Constructing Home – Chair: Jill Journeaux

15.40
Paul Vivian, University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK
Hegel’s Dialectic of Determinism in the Neolithic Sonorous

16.00
Martha Orbach, Independent Artist, Glasgow, Scotland
To Build A Home

16.20
Kathryn Ricketts and Nicola Visser, University of Regina Canada / Independent Researcher, Aarhus, Denmark
Kinaesthetic/cartographic memoirs – a fertile performative ground reflecting on our dis/re locations and environments

16.40
Joana Maria Pereira, Independent Researcher
Women who are at odds with home: drawing research, feminism and ‘world’ – travelling

17.00
Questions

17.20-30
Greig Burgoyne and Jill Journeaux
Concluding comments