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Reviews: Jerwood Drawing Prize: It's time to go back to the drawing board as the theorists hijack art from the hands of artists
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ART
JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE
Glasgow School of Art
DRAWING is the ultimate artistic paradox. Apparently the simplest
of art forms, it is in fact infinitely complex. From the moment a
child picks up pencil or chalk, the marks it makes on paper are
direct, spontaneous, immediate. In theory, drawing is art at its most
pure. On the evidence of the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition,
however, drawing is currently suffering from an identity crisis and
desperately needs help.
In his foreword to the exhibition catalogue, the chairman of the
Jerwood Foundation tells us "the art of drawing lies at the ...
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