EXPANDED DRAWING AT MIDDLE HEAD

Middle Head fortifications

Expanded Drawing is run by Margaret Roberts. The workshop will introduce you to expanded drawing - including site-specific, installation and performance drawing. After initial exercises, you will be asked to find a site within the vicinity of the fortifications at the end of Old Fort Road (pictured above), make one or more drawings composed jointly of the found site + the materials you find (eg stones, leaves, wind, water) and/or the materials you bring (eg string, mirror, foil). We will discuss the work, then document it before removing all traces before we leave.

Build an archive by bringing documentation of your expanded drawing away with you – as photographs or videos, rubbings, diagrams and other drawings, and any detritus of the work that does not originate in the site. Use notebooks to explore and record ideas at the beginning & to document it at the end. 

Satellite view of Middle Head

NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service accommodation