Drawing on Oxfordshire
[Introduction]
[Abingdon] [Banbury]
[Oxford] [Woodstock]
[Exhibition]
Drawing objects from the collections of four Museums
in Oxfordshire.
A one day workshop took place at each Museum. It involved groups of young
people, aged between 5 and 17,
visiting their local museum and choosing artefacts from the collections to draw
with GPS.
The shapes of the museum object were first simplified on paper
and then paced out on foot at a much larger scale in a nearby open space.
Each of the final drawings was about the size of a football pitch.
Click on the map to see the results from each
location
Perspective GPS map of Oxfordshire [Grid = 5 x 5 km]
The objects were selected for their significance to the local
area.
Drawings of MG motor cars, an icthyosaur, gloves and ammonites
were made at Abingdon in Abbey Meadow; hobby horses, a penny farthing,
a shuttle from plush weaving and armour at Banbury in Spiceball Park;
more gloves, cut steel swords and keys from Woodstock in the grounds of
Blenheim Palace and a grave slab from St Frideswide’s Priory and
dodos from Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’
at the
Museum of Oxford were drawn in Merton Field, Christchurch.
What is GPS Drawing?
GPS receivers are mostly used to find where we are and where we want
to go,
but it can also record where we have been as a digital dot-to-dot drawing.
With this principle we can turn our travels into enormous line drawings.
Details:
The project took place from 15- 22 October 2003 and linked county, city and
district museums and galleries through GPS drawing.
It brought together young people, museum objects, and open spaces through drawing
using innovative technology and techniques.
'Drawing on Oxfordshire' was part of Oxfordshire County Council's Cultural
Entitlement initiative,
which promotes access to and participation in cultural opportunities for young
people.
It has enabled the participants to use literally billions of dollars worth of
space technology for creative purposes.
This whole project, along with Drawing Oxford on Oxford,
was part of ‘The Big Draw’,
a national campaign to encourage adults and children to draw in a range of contexts,
with events and activities taking place across the country every year during
October.
The campaign is organised by Drawing Power with one of its themes this year
being ‘space and place’.
External Links:
It involved 5 different locations across Oxfordshire:
Museum of Oxford,
Abingdon Museum, Banbury
Museum, The
Oxfordshire Museum, Modern
Art Oxford
Acknowledgements:
Sarah Lewis, Cultural Entitlement Officer, Learning and Culture, Oxfordshire
County Council
Sarah Mossop, Community and Education Manager, Modern Art Oxford
Linda Smith, Study Support Co-ordinator, Learning and Culture, Oxfordshire County
Council
Lesley Williams, Extended Learning Development Officer, Learning and Culture,
Oxfordshire County Council
Museum Education Officers: Kate Reeve, Natalie Chambers
Museum Curators: Cherry Gray, Carol Anderson
Locations: Merton Field and Christchurch
College, Oxford; Abbey Meadow, Abingdon;
Spiceball Park, Banbury and Blenheim Palace, Woodstock
Special thanks to all the people who took part in the workshops:
At the Museum of Oxford
The Oxford School Year 9:
Ashley, Carl, Rebecca, Suzanna, Sarita, Sadiya and Mrs Foster
New Hinksey CE Primary, Oxford:
Debra, Kit, Louis, William, Bill, Yage, Emily, Henry, Harmony,
Mrs Draper and Mr Clark
At Abingdon Museum
Larkmead School, Abingdon:
Jess, Lauren, Claire, Rachael, Scott, Rudie, Zara, Dom, David,
Beckie, Mrs Champion and Mrs Hunter
At Banbury Museum
The MAP Project, Banbury:
Andrew, Grace, Sarah and Jason
Banbury School Year 10:
Emma, Yazzmin, Andy, Marc, Tim, Vicki, Holly, Joanna,
Ellie, Jason and Mrs Parkinson
At The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
PRUIS, Banbury and PRUIS, Oxford
The MAP Project, Bicester:
Alex, Chris, Butch, Josh and Selma
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