Date and time: 5 February 2027, 17.00–18.00
Location: Northwest Gallery Lecture Theatre (A025), AUB Campus
Join us for a panel discussion exploring “the art of movement within drawing”, considering how artists use line, gesture, rhythm, time, space, and material to create a sense of movement and transformation.
The event will open with a formal welcome from Violet M. McClean, Curator of the AUB Hang at TheGallery, followed by a discussion with invited speakers reflecting on the role of movement within contemporary drawing practice.
The panel will feature Professor Anita Taylor, Founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (since 1994), artist and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee; alongside Yvonne Crossley, who was awarded this year's Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, and AUB alumni
Please note: Seating is limited for this event – booking is essential. Booking for this event will open soon.
The evening will be followed by a drinks reception in TheGallery from 18.00–19.30. This is an open event, and no RSVP is required for the reception.
Drawing at Arts University Bournemouth
Drawing is at the heart of contemporary creative practice and is taught at AUB as an extension of thinking, making, and communicating. While traditionally associated with the static mark on paper, contemporary drawing continually challenges these boundaries. It can move through space and time, exist as animation or moving image, become sculptural or performative, respond to sound and light, or incorporate digital and mechanical processes.
The panel will explore how movement can be both the subject and the process of drawing. What happens when a line records the movement of a body, a hand, a machine or a material? How can drawing capture time, rhythm, gesture and change? And how might artists move beyond the fixed image to create works that are activated by space, technology, performance or the viewer?
The discussion will consider drawing as an active and evolving practice, one that can be handmade, manufactured, digital, sculptural, projected, sewn, worn, or performed. It will examine how artists use movement to challenge traditional understandings of what drawing is and where it can exist.
Celebrating contemporary drawing
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is recognised as the UK’s leading annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing. Its exhibitions celebrate the breadth and vitality of drawing as a contemporary art form, bringing together artists working across different media, disciplines and approaches.
The 2026 exhibition brings together 92 selected drawings by 86 artists living and working across the UK, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Spain and the USA. Selected from 2,621 entries by 1,403 artists across 48 countries, the exhibition demonstrates the international reach and continuing vitality of contemporary drawing.
The selected works reveal the extraordinary range of ways in which artists approach drawing, from works on paper to moving image and 3D works. Across these practices, drawing can record gestures, movements and processes, while also becoming a means of exploring memory, narrative, systems, environments and imagined worlds.
This panel invites us to think about drawing not simply as a static image, but as an act, a process and a movement through time and space.
