Drawing is a vital tool for designers, not only to communicate their design ideas but also to provoke and interrogate them in collaboration with others. As theatre designer Alison Chitty says ‘Drawing is my way out of the black hole. It is immediate and fast; for me it is the foundation of the design process’.

As drawing is also central to my practice I have always taught using drawing as the core process to enable students to investigate, invent, clarify and communicate. This has primarily been with theatre and performance design students, primarily whilst I was Course Leader of the BA Theatre Design course at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL (2013-2025).

The Drawing Performance Project collective grew from my desire to create a dynamic space where designers, performers, educators, visual artists can encounter, explore and develop each other’s practices through drawing. The aim being that exploring movement and drawing together enables us to connect and inspire new ways of making performance. Movement artists Kirill Burlov and Chihiro Kawasaki have worked with me since I began the collective in 2016, and many other dancers have joined us over the years.

I have led these performative encounters and workshops both online and in person both in the UK and internationally. Highlights include workshops for the Stage Design course at the Tonneelacademie in Maastricht (2014/’17/’24/’25) for London Design Festival in 2023/’24 and ’25, at K-Arts, Seoul in 2023 and the 3-day workshop that Kirill Burlov and I led for the 2023 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.

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