(DE)NOTIONAL LINESCAPES: Situational drawing session with Renata Pękowska

This is an adult workshop and no experience is necessary. Please dress comfortably and appropriately for the weather.

When humans first started drawing they used the surfaces that surrounded them. This drawing session will move beyond the flat rectangles of white paper and draw on different surfaces that we walk on or by, using lines and marks as traces, indicators or pointing to features which could be found to be beautiful or significant.

This event will explore leaving marks in spaces as a way of positioning oneself, responding and inhabiting, against the notions of conquest, possession or permanence. It will focus on measuring spaces with and against the human body in order to make sense of the non-human scale of industrial or natural landscapes. Participants will be encouraged to consider tracing as an embodied responses to sensory input which enables continuous awareness of our bodily position and location, with drawings created and experienced through the body's movement and time, as living topographies intertwined with traces left by others.

Renata Pękowska is a visual artist and Irish Research Council Scholar PhD researcher. Her background includes architectural studies, craft design, critical theory (NCAD), and UX/UI design (TU Dublin). Her current research project considers exhibition practices as sites of attention care in the context of attention economies of online media platforms.

This event coincides with the exhibitions Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home, produced and curated by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, in partnership with Dublin Port Company. It is part of a programme of weekly Saturday events held at The Pumphouse, Dublin Port.

Event location: The Pumphouse is on Alexandra Road, Dublin Port. There are public transport links with Dublin Bus and Luas (Red Line), as well as on-site parking. For further access information please contact TBG+S Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin.

Image description: A photo of a cement surface which reads '(de)notional linescapes' in white hand drawn font superimposed diagonally across the left hand side of the image. An illustration of a hand drawing a white line splits the words across two lines.