Drawing and the related issues - material, perceptual, expressive, cultural - have led on into formal and academic research in the field accompanied by practice.

 

Teaching of drawing through practice occurs in many contexts - social, academic, experimental, project setting and research. Teaching in the North East of England includes early work as a tutor with the WEA (Northern Branch),  work with the NHS for The Arts Project, Northgate Hospital, provision for learning difficulties and acquired head injuries, projects within primary and secondary education and  presentations and tutoring within the university sector, from undergraduate level to PhD. 

 

Personal Doctoral research exploring intersections between contemporary drawing issues and studio glass practice was completed through the University of Sunderland, Department of Glass and Ceramics, in 2012.

 

Presentations and papers include those for the Drawing Research Network conferences at the Universities of Loughborough and Brighton, the Robert Minkoff Academic Symposium, Brooklyn, New York and development of a new evidenced based Drawing Taxonomy in support of practical and theoretical teaching in the field.

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Recent exhibitions include "What is Drawing ?" The Customs House Gallery, South Shields, Observations Not Taken Today  Vane Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and  "Drawing Talking To The Sciences"  Exhibition and Conference at the Ruskin, Lancaster.