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The Weekend
Academy’s first Big Draw at the Byam Shaw, 2002, won a National Drawing
Inspiration award
from the Campaign for Drawing.
People of all ages drew from ‘animated’ versions of famous paintings,
modelled by young actors from the National Youth Theatre. These included Chagall’s Promenade,
Seurat’s Pierrot with a White Pipe and
Van Arnolfini Marriage. Degas’ Absinthe Drinkers sat
and argued in the café, the Arnolfinis stood patiently under a
single candle chandelier and discussed how many children their marriage might
produce, and Chagall’s Promenaders defied gravity with a ladder. Children
were so absorbed in their work that parents were able to draw independently.
Byam Shaw students were on hand to support and encourage participants to
draw and exhibit their work, which we hung in the Concourse Gallery over
the Big Draw weekend.
