Drawing Narrative in Time
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Howeson2
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- T - Other
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- Location
- London
- Brief description of type
- Multi-Component Output with Contextual Information
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research investigates the technique of drawing over historical prints and engravings as a way of creating new personal, social and political narratives. Working with images from the Museum of London print archive, Howeson used drawing as a poetic language to re-interpret original prints from the 18th and 19th centuries by adding new elements that represent time past, present and future. The result is an original method of exploring the passing of time by transforming found images into new stories. Working with the print archives, Howeson chose images containing fragments of stories from the past – industrial workers, gravediggers, builders, children, horses and carriages. The prints were photographed, enlarged and digitally printed, and a repeated redrawing and erasing followed. These methods altered and subverted the original content, overlaying it with contrasting stories from the modern world and connecting past and present narratives in new ways. Research was also carried out through sketches, writing and photographic documentation. Found photographs and text from contemporary news articles were also used as material for conversations between past and present. While other artists have worked with found imagery as source material, Howeson’s drawings take archival collaboration further: in the redrawn images, a visual dialogue with the original work emerges in which modern-day socio-political issues are given resonance through their juxtaposition against history. Howeson’s work is also distinctive in its use of drawing as the sole medium of investigating the themes of time and timelessness. The research was presented in a three-week solo exhibition, ‘Present in the Past’, at Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, 5–25 February 2015, and disseminated through presentations, workshops and publications, including as a case study, ‘Anne Howeson/Drawing and Memory’, in Minichiello, M. and Embury, G., Reportage Illustration: Visual Journalism (London: Bloomsbury, 2017).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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