Craft of digital drawing explored at free lecture

That is the question Professor Simon Grennan will ask and explore, focusing on drawings made in the 1990s by international artists’ team Grennan & Sperandio, at a free lecture at the University of Chester.

The Inaugural Professorial Lecture, ‘Without meaningful recourse to trace: Grennan and Sperandio’s digital drawing in the 1990s’, will be presented at the University’s Exton Park site on Wednesday, March 12.

Celebrating the appointment as a Professor of Art and Design, the event will be held at the School of Education, from 6.30pm to 8pm.

Professor Grennan will look at Grennan & Sperandio’s use of emerging digital edge recognition and digital ‘point and line’ techniques in the 1990s, positioning these innovations relative to older techniques such as tracing, animation and even older ideas about drawing, visualising and the body.

Professor Grennan, who is also Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the University’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, began producing comic books in 1995. He has a passionate interest in the ways in which comic strips, “the most 19th century of media”, continue to provide opportunities for scrutinising the relationships between words and images. He trained as a fine artist, establishing an international studio with American artist Christopher Sperandio in 1990, producing hundreds of projects and more than 40 books to date.

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Images:

1. Professor Simon Grennan.
2. Grennan & Sperandio. Buried Treasures. Fantagraphics. 1998.