Drawing Discussion with Craig Fisher & Andrea Cryer

Drawing Projects UK presented this online Drawing Discussion - with Andrea Cryer and Craig Fisher - alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition on Tuesday 11 January 2022.
Exhibiting artists, Andrea Odu Cryer and Craig Fisher, will introduce their drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition and will discuss the nature of drawing with stitch with Professor Anita Taylor followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Andrea Cryer's drawing, Searching, 2021, thread drawing, 70 x 70cm is drawn with thread on a repurposed vintage wool blanket. A sketch capturing a moment when searching for a lost memory from a series of drawings and photographs of her elderly mother whom they were ‘shielding’ during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Craig Fisher's drawing, Pages from my Sketchbook, 2021, hand machine embroidery on linen, 60 x 80cm (overall), 37 x 25cm (individual pages). Pages from my Sketchbook are an ongoing series of drawings that employ labour intensive textile techniques (machine and hand embroidery) to re-present and replicate the quick notes/sketches/drawings Craig Fisher make in notebooks. Taking inspiration from the everyday and the art/artists he is looking at, the sketchbook page drawings visualise ideas, thinking and research. Re-making the original ‘sketches’ by stitching them offers a different perspective on their value, elevating their status due to the time spent producing them.
Andrea Odu Cryer (b.1957 Yorkshire, UK) studied BA (Hons) Fine Art & Tex tiles at Bath Spa University (2004-08). Selected group exhibitions include: ING Discerning Eye, London (2020); Bath Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Bath (2019); Art of the Stitch, International Touring Exhibition, UK, Hungary, Germany (2008/2009). Recent awards include the Westbury Mayfair Art Award 2020. She lives and works in Wiltshire in the UK.
Craig Fisher (b.1976 Johannesburg, South Africa) studied BA Fine Art (Painting) at Northumbria University (1996-99); MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (1999-2000). Selected group exhibitions include: FORMAT21: Control, International Photography Festival, Derby, UK (2021); Dimensions of Publicness: 24 Gabrovo Biennial of Humour & Satire in Art, Museum of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria (2019); Gestures of Resistance, Romantso Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (2017). Solo exhibitions include: a space in a space, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham, UK (2022); rack ‘n’ ruin, The Trophy Room, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK (2018); Homemade Devices, Beach Gallery, London, UK (2013). Recent awards include: Nottingham Castle Open 2014 Purchase Prize (2014); and selection for an international artist residency at Villa Lena Art Foundation, Italy (2016). He lives and works in Nottingham, UK.
Please note that this is a recording of a live event presented on Zoom.
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