Nature Drawing Nature, 2nd Seminar
Situated Drawing - Cartographies of Practice — Online, April 2 and 3, 2026
I presented some recent drawing research — you can listen to me speaking about the development of my UAL Academic Support workshop Thinking Through Drawing in Nature. 🌱 (my presentation Thinking Through Drawing in Nature: Accessing the bloom space of potential starts at 42.58 below)
Thank you for this opportunity! Huge thanks to Pedro Soares Neves 🙌🏻
https://journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/BBDS/NDN2?fbclid=PAdGRleAQ8e4NleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAadpFUDthKOJCnZ1UY2uPHVSWubSizkPaOCfUgiOe5L2NwD7yM-ombwNr0bjrQ_aem_T86rHTRCTJxlHbKxmbrYTQ
April 2 - Thursday
- 16h30 to 19h25 (UTC - Lisbon time)
- 20 min each presentation
Lovise Søyland; Department of Visual and Performing Arts Education, University of South-Eastern Norway
Drawing with the forest: An Embodied and Material Encounter with time and place
Anthi Kosma, Aikaterini Tsevdou, Aggeliki Papanikolaou, Demetra Papaspyrou ;independent researchers, Greece
Entangled Naturalisms: Drawing nature beyond media.
Ilga Leimanis; University of the Arts London, United Kingdom
Thinking Through Drawing in Nature: Accessing the bloom space of potential
- 20 min QA/ Dialogue
- 15 min Tea break
Kelly Cumberland; University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Situated Drawing: Cartographies of Practice
Joanna Leah; Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom
Drawing Out Hilbre: Tidal Event-Scores Between the Cartographic and the Choreographic
Fiona Harrisson; School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University, Australia
Plant Thinking: enlivening knowing through drawing in-the-field
- 20 min QA/ Dialogue
- closing remarks
April 3 - Friday
- 16h30 to 19h25 (UTC - Lisbon time)
- 20 min each presentation
Louise O’Boyle; Ulster University, United Kingdom
Drawing as Situated Artist Research in Place and Relation
Jill R. Baker; Visual Artist and Faculty, Linn Benton Community College, United States of America
Paper in the Floodplain: and other instructions for drawing
Christina Kirchinger; independent researcher, Germany
The Constraint as Impulse
- 20 min QA/ Dialogue
- 15 min Tea break
Amir Hariri; independent researcher, United States of America
Lines in Exile: Toward a Phenomenology of Situated Mark Making
David LeRue, Keyiana Marques, Sa Eun Song; Concordia University, Canada
Can Close Looking Reveal the Workings of the World? Drawing, Geography, and Place-Based Practice
Chad Connery; University of Calgary, Canada
Anca Matyiku; University of Cincinnati, United States of America
Adjective Constructions: Stratigraphic Drawing and Projective Dis/placement
- 20 min QA/ Dialogue
- closing remarks
The video recordings are available via these direct links:
April 2: https://youtu.be/WA7tMUJA9dk
April 3: https://youtu.be/btUyp4WKj7g