phil sawdon
about ... anon and on anon
bio
The accumulative and ekphrastic guide to a fallacious building:
A heuristic architecture of found words … readymade
propositions, parlance and bricolage for no such place in the middle, the furthest
place
from fixed points of view.
Phil Sawdon is an artist, writer, editor, sometime academic, founder and keeper of The Fictional Museum of Drawing.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Design and the Creative Arts at Loughborough University.
He was a director and editor of TRACEY: drawing and visualisation research until 2015.
He is a co-editor with Marsha Meskimmon and Russell Marshall of the academic series Drawing In (Bloomsbury). From 2010 to 2019 with Marsha Meskimmon he was a co-editor of the Literature/Creative Text section of the online arts journal/magazine Stimulus Respond.
He publishes in varied formats including edited and authored books on contemporary drawing with I.B. Tauris and Intellect. The titles include Drawing: The Purpose (2009), Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art (2007), Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art (with Russell Marshall, 2012), Drawing Ambiguity: Beside the Lines of Contemporary Art (with Russell Marshall, 2015) and Drawing Difference: Connections Between Gender and Drawing (with Marsha Meskimmon, 2016).
He works with Deborah Harty (Loughborough University) as the creative drawing research collaboration humhyphenhum.
He also works with Russell Marshall as the drawing research collaboration Marshall and Sawdon.
He is an elected member of the Leicester Society of Artists (LSA).