'“In 2019 I put together a group of artists interested in drawing and their own CPD. We met once a month at Drawing Projects UK for four months. The venue was important, lending a degree of professionalism, a sense of serious endeavour. The group – myself, Leonie Bradley, Kirsty Lovell, Andy Midgely, Maxine Foster, Vanessa Coles, Esmé Clutterbuck and Henny Burnett. 

Initially we had to explore what contemporary drawing might include by testing its boundaries. Is a piece of cord tied to several objects including oneself a drawing? Is this spill of charcoal a drawing? And that torn edge?”

Their first collaboration filled the room involving all the furniture and tape, paper and charcoal. It was a cross between a playground and a den. They decided it was a legit. drawing. There was no conventional beauty in it and some found the mess discomforting, a fact which couldn’t be discussed initially. So, as they tested the limits of what constituted a contemporary drawing, they were simultaneously testing one another’s boundaries.

Drawing as a Tool for CPD (Continuing Professional Development)