A Line Going for a Walk: Artworks from The JADA Collection

We are fascinated by drawing. The way drawing is defined depends on where, how, and why it is happening and who is doing it. Perhaps, an accepted and purposely expansive definition is that drawing is ‘mark-making’, or as artist Paul Klee once famously said, a line is a dot that went for a walk.

Drawing as graphic or visual communication is at the heart of A Line Going for A Walk. Selected from the Grafton Regional Gallery’s JADA Collection, this exhibition features acquisitions from previous iterations of the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award. 

The artists featured in this exhibition use drawing to generate and communicate their ideas to others. They use it to demonstrate their curiosity about the world, and as an intellectually driven symbol system where their thoughts are expressed in drawn images. 

This selection shows the depth and diversity of contemporary drawing, and the JADA’s important role in fostering and supporting Australian drawing practice. 

This exhibition is on show in Prentice House West until 8 December 2024.

A Grafton Regional Gallery collection exhibition. 

Image Credit: Betty Greenhatch, Contemporary China 2015, pencil and gold ink on paper, (detail). Image courtesy of the artist.