Simon Callery Field Drawings
Wednesday 15 October 2008 11.00am – 1.00pm | Centre for Drawing Project Space
Archaeologist Helen Wickstead will speak on the function and practice of drawing in archaeology
Drawing occupies a position of status within archaeology and its graphic function and material characteristics continue to fascinate artists. Excavation site field drawings and drawn records of artefacts are understood as interpretation and record information in a highly developed and codified visual language.
This talk is an Agendas event complimenting the Field Drawings loan of historic archaeological drawings from the archive at Oxford Archaeology. Spanning a forty-year period the archaeological drawings on loan register the shifts within the discipline towards its primary means of recording. These unique documents will be in the Centre for Drawing Project Space at Wimbledon College of Art alongside recent landscape-based works by the artist.
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This encounter with archaeological drawing and contemporary drawing constitutes an element of the Thames Gateway Project, a practice based AHRC research engaging with landscape in change within the dynamic of the regeneration zone.
Further Information
Previous Events
- Art and Archaeology Exhibition
- Earthscapes: Geology + Geography Seminar
- Touchstone
- Stonehenge Riverside: The Ventral Surface
- Another Proof of the Preceding Theory Screening at the Herzliya Biennale
- Ventriloquist
- Art and Archaeology Seminar
- Simon Callery Field Drawings
- Drawing Stonehenge
- Virtual World Exhibition: Stonehenge Riverside Project 2007 Artist Residencies
- Site Specific: Between Archaeologists and Artists
- Some Time Now
- Interferences - High Moorland Visitor Centre, 2006
- Interferences - offiCina, Beijing, China, 2006
- The Big Draw
- Shovel Down National Archaeology Week 2005
- The UCL Big Draw Event
Publications
- Documenting the Past - Cheshire Life Article, November 2008
- Drawing from the Past
- Drawing Time - British Archaeology Magazine Article
- South of Woodhenge. An Interim Report on the 2007 excavations
- Land Division and identity in Later Prehistoric Dartmoor, South-West Britain
- Recent Approaches to the Archaeology of Land Allotment
- Historical context and chronology of Bronze Age land enclosure on Dartmoor, UK
- Drawing: The Purpose
- Theorising Tenure: A Landscape Analysis of Later Prehistoric Dartmoor
- Summary Report of the 2004 Excavations and Survey at Shovel Down
- Summary Report of the 2003 Excavations and Survey at Shovel Down
- Excavations of Bronze Age field systems, Shovel Down, Dartmoor, 2003