Drawing Workshop with James Robert Morrison

Exhibiting artist James will be running a drawing techniques workshop linked to his artwork in the exhibition.

James explains, “In my teenage years, I didn’t know anyone gay, there were no ‘out and proud’ public figures and school was an exclusively heteronormative environment due to the Section 28 law passed in 1988, which stopped councils and schools from promoting the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.”

Inspired by this and the play on words (in the UK, ‘fag’ is first and foremost a colloquial term for a cigarette, before being a homophobic slur), James has created a series of drawings of male couples on the unique and challenging medium: fag (cigarette) papers.

In the workshop James will run through how he prepares a surface to draw on, help you select an image and share some of his drawing processes with the group. An interest in drawing would be helpful for this workshop.

Age 14+