What is 'performance drawing'? When does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not? Through conversation, interviews and essays, the authors illuminate these questions, and what it might mean to perform, and what it might mean to draw, in a diverse and expressive contemporary practice since 1945.

The term 'performance drawing' first appeared in the subtitle of Catherine de Zegher's Drawing Papers 20: Performance Drawings, in particular with reference to Alison Knowles and Elena del Rivero. In this book, it is used as a trope, and a thread of thinking, to describe a process dedicated to broadening the field of drawing through resourceful practices and cross-disciplinary influence.

Featuring a wide range of international artists, this book presents pioneering practitioners, alongside current and emerging artists. The combination of experiences and disciplines in the expanded field has established a vibrant art movement that has been progressively burgeoning in the last few years. The Introduction contextualises the background and identifies contemporary approaches to performance drawing. As a way to embrace the different voices and various lenses in producing this book, the authors combine individual perspectives and critical methodology in the five chapters.

While embedded in ephemerality and immediacy, the themes encompass body and energy, time and motion, light and space, imagined and observed, demonstrating how drawing can act as a performative tool. The dynamic interaction leads to a collective understanding of the term, performance drawing, and addresses the key developments and future directions of this applied drawing process.

About the Authors

Maryclare Fo� is a UK/Irish artist and teaches drawing at the University of the Arts London, UK. She was awarded her PhD at Camberwell, UAL, UK; her work was exhibited in A History of Drawing (2018) at UAL, UK, and can be seen in Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art (I.B. Tauris, 2012).

Jane Grisewood was a New Zealand London-based artist and lecturer; she gained her PhD in 2010 at Central Saint Martins, UAL, UK, where she taught experimental drawing. She received awards from Arts Council England and had Artists' Books published that have been acquired in international collections. She exhibited at Lumen and Void London, Aether Berlin, Kaleid Oslo, Venice Biennale (2019) and in Line/Extended (2019) at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Grisewood died in 2023.

Birgitta Hosea is a time-based media artist and Professor of Moving Image at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Previously, Head of Animation at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins, where she completed her PhD in animation as a form of performance in 2012.

Carali McCall is a Canadian London-based artist and art tutor; she was awarded her PhD at Central Saint Martins, UAL, UK, where she is active in research groups. She was a finalist in the 2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize and was recently granted funding from Arts Council England for the artwork, Run Vertical (Running up the Side of a Building).

Marsha Meskimmon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History & Theory at Loughborough University, UK.

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