‘Drawing As Monument and the Material of Memory’ organised and curated by Stephanie Owens, Head of School Arts + Media at Plymouth College of Art
From the 9-20 November 2020, the PS1 Gallery Space on campus played host to the exhibition ‘Drawing As Monument and the Material of Memory’, a display of frottagés by our School of Arts + Media students, organised and curated by Stephanie Owens, Head of School Arts + Media.
The exhibition was the culmination of several workshops celebrating the launch of Plymouth College of Art’s new Drawing Lab. Inspired by drawings and socio-political art of the late Hungarian architect and artist László Rajk, the workshops examined the process of drawing as an engagement with the public realm and as a record of the physical presence of objects, names, spaces prone to disappear over time.
The workshops were led by Stephanie Owens, Head of School Arts + Media, Judit Rajk, Rajk’s widow and collaborator, Hungarian curator Andi Soos, New York-based curatorial researcher Isi Litke, and Valerie Goodman, Director of Valerie Goodman Gallery, New York alongside our Arts + Media staff and students and art students from Budapest.