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Details for Leicester Museums & Galleries events and exhibitions programme.

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In collaboration with SOCK Gallery, Leicester Society of Artists (LSA) proudly presents its 139th Annual Exhibition, showcasing the remarkable talent of artists from Leicestershire and Rutland in a celebration of creativity.

LSA is a lively and diverse group of professional visual artists. Our 160+ members work across various media and styles, including oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, etchings, lithographs, screen prints, sculpture, glass, ceramics, textiles, and more. The exhibition will feature more than 100 original artworks from both established and recently elected members, including portraits and landscapes, abstract and figurative pieces, with a good mix of large and small works.

This year’s exhibition will showcase works inspired by the theme ‘A Sense of Place’, highlighting unique interpretations of our local area.

The Exhibition Launch Party will take place at 3:30 pm on Saturday, 6th September 2025.

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The Vesper issue of the online literary magazine/journal Stimulus Respond Includes a drawing fiction by Phil Sawdon titled 'When the Daylight Draws Again'

When the Daylight Draws Again can also be viewed in the Loughborough University Research Repository.

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TUES 26 MARCH, 6-8PM DRAWING ROOM, LONDON SE1 ORGANISED BY SABRINA FULLER, HELENA RECKITT + EHRYN TORRELL

Readings

Together we will read selections from critical works:

Catherine de Zegher, ‘A Century Under the Sign of Line: Drawing and Its Extension (1910-2010),’ 2010, and ‘Drawing as Binding/Bandage/Bondage: Eva Hesse Drawing,’ 2014

Karen Kurczynski: ‘Drawing in the 1990s: historical revisions and phantom visions’, 2023.

Marsha Meskimmon and Phil Sawdon, ‘Approaching: drawing near,’ in Drawing Difference: Connections between Gender and Drawing, London: IB Tauris, 2016

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This very short article/drawing fiction was published in the online blog Drawing Research Network (DRN) hosted by TRACEY at Loughborough University.

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For the first time in our history we head out of the City of Leicester and into the county with this year’s Annual Exhibition being held at Sock Gallery, Loughborough. A location with arts and culture at its core.

In our Exhibitions we celebrate new work by our members, well known for their professional values and high standards of creative work, each with a strong connection to Leicester and Leicestershire..

From 7th September, 164 art works by 97 artists will be displayed. A stimulating exhibition showcasing our diverse membership and the many intriguing approaches and interpretations made to their individually chosen subjects.

Most works in the exhibition are for sale. www.leicestersocietyofartists.co.uk

Sock Gallery opens 10-4 Monday to Saturday and late when there are performances in the Town Hall. Enter LE11 2XB for nearby carparking off Woodgate.

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soanyway magazine

Volume 2 Issue 15 (Painting) Summer 2023

Phil Sawdon: la souris est en dessous de la table

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The Order of the Drawing, selected by guest curator Arno Kramer, accompanies the Drawing Research Network‘s 2023 Drawing in Relation series of research presentations organised by the Drawing Research Group (DRG) at Loughborough University.

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This very short article/drawing fiction was published in the online blog Drawing Research Network (DRN) hosted by TRACEY at Loughborough University.

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Soanyway Volume 2 Issue #12 is online at: https://www.soanywaymagazine.org/issue-twelve

The issue includes my contribution, A Snatch of Conversation.

ISSN 2043-6408

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Ecologies of Drawing: In Situ, selected by guest curator Sara Schneckloth, accompanies the Drawing Research Network‘s 2022 Ecologies of Drawing series of research presentations organised by the Drawing Research Group (DRG) at Loughborough University.

We invited drawn submissions in response to the theme of ‘Ecologies of Drawing’ and these selected images explore Ecologies of Drawing and how they can act as agents of change. Scientifically concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and environments, in the context of drawing, the term ecology might be understood generously to include: environments of dynamic exchange and metastable equilibrium; inter-relational sites of spatial and temporal encounter; the complex systems and patterns of material and virtual worlds; social, political, and economic ecologies; self-sustaining microcosms within spheres of containment; and fragile interdependencies.

In the light of the analogous and entwined conditions of drawing and ecology, we were curious to learn how the agency of drawing operates as an ecological practice – be it in graphite trails, sonic traces, and waves of light, or events and encounters that activate diverse thought and conversation.

Submissions were invited from anyone practicing drawing in a traditional or expanded way and we received well over 100 entries from artists across the globe.

We would like to thank all who supported the exploration of this theme and to extend a special thank you to Sara for her committed and attentive approach to the selection and curation of the exhibition.

Phil Sawdon, ‘In Deep Time’, Shale and chalk, 2018.

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... elected to the Leicester Society of Artists on 4th September 2021 ...

Drawn to Time, selected by guest curator Susan Kemenyffy, accompanies the Drawing Research Network‘s 2021 Temporal Drawing series of research presentations organised by the Drawing Research Group (DRG) at Loughborough University. We invited submissions to the call for drawings in response to the theme of ‘temporal drawing’ suggesting that temporality is not only inherent in drawing, both as a process and as a product, but is also its fundamental condition. We consider that to draw is to draw inescapably in and of time. If to make a mark is to capture the trace of a gesture, then mark-making reveals the movement of time - of the living present becoming past, and of the past contracting into the present. And so, we asked: how can we explore the time of drawing? How does time prompt us to think differently about drawing? Submissions were invited from anyone practicing drawing in a traditional or expanded way and we received over 370 drawings from artists across the globe in response. We would like to thank all who supported the exploration of this theme and to extend a special thank you to Susan for her committed and attentive approach to the selection and curation of the exhibition.

Phil Sawdon, ‘thematic material’, video, 2021.

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Drawing Fiction: Drawings' Bodyies

I have a new drawing fiction in issue #135 of Danse Macabre.

Drawings’ Bodyies: An Autopsy

https://dansemacabreonline.wixsite.com/neudm/phil-sawdon-135

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Drawing Interstices

I have a recent drawing fiction available to read in the online journal Drain.

The journal issue is titled SOCIAL/AFFECTS.

Drawing fiction: Drawing Interstices

http://drainmag.com/drawing-interstices/

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