Drawn In is a fascinating exploration of drawing as a tool for unlocking the imagination.
It’s a brand new exhibition about to start its tour of Scotland in the Travelling Gallery.

With new funds from The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Creative Scotland, the Travelling Gallery team have been able to commission new works specifically for the unique space including a wonderful new animation from Katy Dove inspired by some of the places the Travelling Gallery will be touring to; a bold and beautiful wall drawing from Rob Churm and two curious installations by Berlin based artist Franziska Furter.

As if that isn’t enough there are also works from Japanese performance artist Sachiko Abe, Belgium based brother and sister Sara and Wout Bomans, Richard Forster, Alex Frost and Swiss artist Nicolas Party. See below for more detail on the artists and their work.

There is also the special opportunity of being able to look at sketchbooks from many of the exhibiting artists as well as artists involved in the Travelling Gallery education programme.

Drawn In will be parked outside the City Art Centre and open to all from
11am – 5pm on Saturday 26th February before beginning its tour of the country.

This will also an opportunity to view dynamic large-scale wall and window drawings by
Greig Burgoyne on the ground floor of the City Art Centre.

MEDIA EVENT
Friday 25th February 2pm – 3pm
City Art Centre, EH1 1DE

Press preview of the exhibition and opportunity to meet artists Franziska Furter
and Greig Burgoyne.

The Tour

Saturday 26th February City Art Centre, Edinburgh EH1 1DE 11am – 5pm

Then touring to:

* 28 Feb – 4 March, Midlothian * 7–11 March, East Ayrshire * 14–18 March, Renfrewshire * 21– 25 March, South Lanarkshire * 28 Mar–1 April, Scottish Borders * 4– 8 April, Edinburgh * 11–15 April, East Ayshire *26– 28 April, Perth and Kinross * 3– 6 May, Angus * 9–20 May, Highlands *
23– 27 May, Western Isles * 30 May– 3 June, Moray * 6–17 June, Shetland Isles

The Artists

SACHIKO ABE
Recently Sachiko Abe performed each day of the Liverpool Biennale cutting millimetre lines of paper from an A4 sheet. This beautifully eloquent event is represented here by a pencil drawing and a film by Sachiko and Ben Rivers. www.afoundation.org.uk/details.php?id=57

SARA BOMANS
Sara Bomans has created characteristic hair-drawings based on the sketches of hybrid creatures and monsters drawn by her 9 year old brother Wout. www.sarabomans.be

ROB CHURM
Rob Churm makes drawings using basic materials such as pens, biros, Tipp-ex, ink and brushes.
He explores new ideas but often finds himself returning to common themes – things that have balance, things that flow and their interruptions, rivers and bones, people and animals, cigarettes and light bulbs, explosions, patterns and empty spaces. www.sorchadallas.com/artists/28

KATY DOVE
Destinations the gallery travels to have been chosen as starting points for this new work. Photographic and filmed footage were captured in several locations around Scotland including Helmsdale and The Black Isle. Birdsong from these places has been mixed with other sounds to form the soundtrack for the film. Katy Dove is just beginning a residency in New York supported by Creative Scotland.
www.halesgallery.com/artists/_KATY%20DOVE/

RICHARD FORSTER
Painstakingly detailed, almost photo-real pencil drawings made from snapshots, or pages torn from magazines that have particular resonance for the artist, explore our understanding of what we are looking at, so questioning both the thing itself and the image of the thing. www.inglebygallery.com/artists_detail.php?id=59

ALEX FROST
The source photographs – which for much of the series are self-portraits of the artist with his eyes closed - are processed using software designed to transform images into stitch-patterns for computer-controlled looms. Frost punches pinholes through the resulting stitch marks by hand, then lays the template on the ground and forces enamel paint through the holes from the back to make an image on the front. www.alexfrost.comm

FRANZISKA FURTER
A 5mm wide line of very thin aluminium leaf whirls around on the wall and forms loops, a loose knot without a beginning or an end. As the viewer moves along the drawing the reflections from the line change from dark to shiny to invisible. The second work made out of thousands of knots with nylon threads, is like a three-dimensional drawing hanging from the wall.
www.doggerfisher.com/artists/artistdetail.php?id=52

NICOLAS PARTY
Nicolas Party’s still life drawings always include the same series of objects, teapots, pots, sausages and fruits. The artist sees these objects as different characters and every drawing involves a new situation, a new intrigue between the characters, while the table functions as a theatre stage.
Nicolas recently exhibited at the Collective Gallery as part of the New Work Scotland Programme. www.collectivegallery.com

GREIG BURGOYNE
For the first week of the tour only Greig Burgoyne will creative a live wall drawing and window drawing on the ground floor of the City Art Centre. They take references from the energies and transitional nature of the gallery setting. www.greigburgoyne.com