From solitary confinement, Moliere Dimanche started drawing on anything he could find. The result was a series of fantastical, allegorical images that depict abuse, racism and profound isolation.
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There’s a disturbing disconnect between the polite etiquette of arms fairs and the hell that their products create.
The graphic novel has become a literary phenomenon, but the name doesn’t adequately describe the medium’s flexibility, diversity and potential.
Ghana’s Chale Wote festival’s main aim is to provide an alternative platform for the arts. It uses street arts to break creative boundaries and cultivate a wider audience for the arts in West Africa.
Children’s scribbles can tell us a lot about how they will progress in school.
The Dobell is a celebration of drawing. And the work in this year’s show, from Noel McKenna’s beautifully rendered drawings of dogs to Richard Lewer’s depictions of states of mind – is first rate.
Drawing can help us to think creatively and develop hand-eye coordination. But an insecurity around ‘not being able to draw’ is preventing many high-school students from using this skill.
Don’t dismiss children’s early writing as scribbles. Children know more about writing, even before they learn to read.
Before LOLcats, there were LEOcats.
He may not have invented the helicopter, but the real man is more than worthy of the myth.
Children’s drawings are an accessible and compelling image of the mandatory detention of children in isolated camps. Is that why they carry so much weight in the media?
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Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Design, RMIT University
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Burke and Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Developmental Psychology, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
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Casual academic, Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford
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Professor of Evolutionary Studies, Professor of African Prehistory, University of Bergen
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Principal Investigator, SapienCE - Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour, University of Bergen
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
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Lecturer in Media, Macquarie University
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Lecturer of Film and Television, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Penn State
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
