Annotated Drawing of Drawing 
Stephen Farthing 2011

The Drawn Word

Professor Stephen Farthing, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Drawing, has co-edited the book The Drawn Word with Dr Janet McKenzie. The book is the product of a research project funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council networking grant that explored the relationship between writing drawing and literacy. As such it is collaborative publication between Studio International, the University of the Arts London (UAL) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT).

It is the first of a proposed series in which Studio International will link with educational institutions to publish academic papers and research outcomes. The Drawn Word presents the papers from the third conference Drawing Out (2013) organised between UAL and RMIT in Melbourne. This publication focuses on explaining the relationship between writing and drawing; the ideas raised at the symposium are expanded and clarified, with the inclusion of artists' and academics' contributions from sources as diverse as Oxford professor emeritus Martin Kemp ' who has written on the Leicester Codex by Leonardo da Vinci and Professor Asa Briggs (a leading British historian and a key code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war) ' who discusses, 'Drawing as Code'.

The essays are organised into five key sections: Definition; Transmission; Application; Representation; and 'All Writing is Drawing', an exhibition remit for artists in Australia and the UK.

For more information, visit Studio International’s website.

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