Manchester Academy of Fine Arts - The Meditation of Drawing

MAFA exhibition at Manchester Cathedral

10 September 2023 - 12 October 2023

Photography is an immediate reaction; drawing is a meditation’ – Henri Cartier-Bresson

The purpose of drawing can be many things to different individuals; it can describe, record, document, explore, invent, create, visualise and communicate. Drawing is the most basic tool of depiction; it can become a meditational act of awareness. The Manchester Academy of Fine Arts initiated this exhibition to explore and promote the positive aspects of drawing.

Visitors to this exhibition will see how MAFA artists each have their own individual approaches to drawing. We hope you will be inspired by the drawings on display in the Nave of the Cathedral and selected sketchbook images in the Chapter House. Responding to the concept of the exhibition, the public will be able to participate by drawing the surroundings around them. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition with essays by Professor Tim Brennan, Julia Midgley and John Hewitt. The essays examine how drawing is a meditation of the world around us.

https://mafa.org.uk/the-meditation-of-drawing-exhibition/

I am very happy to have two pieces included in the exhibition.