Dan Shipsides: More-than-representation in drawing. The bind we are in with images.

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Seminar

Dan Shipsides
More-than-representation in drawing. The bind we are in with images
Tim Ingold understands that what we call 'making things' is not a process of transcription at all but a process of growth. The presentation reflects on a socially engaged practice of deep drawing in woodland spaces around Belfast which I have run over a number of years through SECA (Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action). These are free workshops open to anyone. Ingold also suggests that ‘people's knowledge of the environment undergoes continuous formation in the very course of their moving about in it.’ This activity extends my own drawing practice and engages a deep method of creativity in place – in this case drawing - which entangles a reciprocal and iterative relationship to and as nature. In this drawing acts as a process of being present, looking, listening, marking, acting, not thinking, repeating, failing, trying, retrying, breathing and then really looking again and again and marking, amending, evolving, growing, not-thinking and drawing-growing-growing-drawing. Within non-representational geography and beyond the image, Louisa Cadman considers the performative nature of practice, as processual and transformative. Parallel to drawing as process, as a way of contextualising, expanding and articulating the concept of ‘more-than-representation’ in these drawings, the ‘bind we are in with images’ will look at some issues we have with image. This will draw towards other projects which process beyond the image to engage with place through creative action and reflection.

Period	4 Sept 2025
Event title	NCAD x BSoA Research Forum #1
Event type	Seminar
Location	Dublin, IrelandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National