The Big Draw

Schools participating in The Big Draw

Look at some of the drawing
The Primary Schools
The Secondary Schools

Fifty-five Swansea primary schools have signed up for a week long BIG DRAW and a team of some of the City’s best artists will be on hand to help them prove that Swansea can pull out the stops to get as many people as possible drawing. This will include grown-ups as well as children all proving that ‘drawing changes the world’. This exciting project is part of a nation-wide campaign launched four years ago to encourage everyone to draw. The Guild of St. George, a small charity, initiated the campaign to show why drawing should be valued more highly in education and everyday life, and to involve everyone. Since the launch, it has brought together over a million people at venues across the UK to discover that drawing aids observation, communication and creativity and above all, is fun.

Galleries, museums, schools, colleges as well as community organisations have all taken part but nothing quite like Swansea’s Big Draw involving so many schools and artists has been tried yet. Keith Bayliss the project’s co-ordinating artist said …

”We will all be drawing our imaginary journeys across enchanted territories and I’m really looking forward to the weird and wonderful images that I know will emerge”.

The public will have a chance to see some of the work on show in the Foyer of County Hall in 26 April - 7 May 2004.

Swansea’s BIG DRAW will take place from the 22nd to the 26th March with a Big Draw for secondary schools planned for the summer term.

The project has been organised by Swansea Education Department’s Arts team headed by Carolyn Davies and supports many of the aims of the authority’s policy for the arts in education.

"The beginning of the week has got off to an excellent start and by Friday over 8,000 children, teachers and school visitors will have participated".
Carolyn Davies, Teacher Adviser and Co-ordinator for the Arts

Click on the schools below to see the children in action

Penclawdd Primary School
Birchgrove Infants School
Graig Infants School
Ysgol Bryniago
Clwyd Primary School
Morriston Primary School

"Drawing is a natural way for children to communicate. They use drawing as
a way of interpreting the world around them. They use it to express ideas
and feelings.
Carolyn Davies, Teacher Adviser and Co-ordinator for the Arts

 

Click on the schools below to see the children in action

Birchgrove Comprehensive School
Bishop Gore Comprehensive School
Pontarddulais Comprehensive School

Children enjoy drawing. It is an activity that they really want to do.
The Big Draw encourages everyone to have a go and by collaborating and
co-operating they will produce one big drawing that has a little bit of everyone
in it".
Carolyn Davies, Teacher Adviser and Co-ordinator for the Arts

Drawing Power, the Campaign for Drawing, is in its fourth year. The Guild of St. George, a small charity founded by John Ruskin in 1871, initiated it to show why drawing should be valued more highly in education and everyday life, and to involve everyone. Since its launch in 2000, it has brought together over a million people at venues across the UK to discover that drawing aids observation, communication and creativity and, above all, gives pleasure.