THE BIG DRAW
The Campaign for Drawing invites everyone to join in the annual Big Draw (1-31 October), using drawing to engage with the past, present and future.
The ninth Big Draw season has now closed.
In October 2008, 1200 venues, including galleries, museums, science centres, heritage and environmental
sites, libraries, archives, community and shopping centres, colleges, schools and art clubs are hosting
drawing activities for people of all abilities. They explored technical, scientific, architectural,
archaeological or fine art drawing. Participants of all ages were invited to help expand the boundaries of
drawing - experimenting with pencils, crayons, charcoal, sand, clay, digital imagery, choreographed movement,
vapour trails and fire drawings. Most activities were free and widely accessible. Find out what happened in 2008 by visiting our Flickr Group where you can view images from our Launch, Drawing on Life, at the Wellcome Collection and University College London; Transports of Delight: The Big Draw at St Pancras and The Big Picture Party at the British Library as well as many other Big Draw events throughout the UK and abroad.