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Seminar Presenter: nature drawing nature - April 3rd 2025

Panels Moderation: Pedro Soares Neves (Lisbon University, Portugal)​ Presenters: Brent Dedas (University of South Carolina, USA)  "The Honeybee Blueprint Project" Max Zolkwer (UADE, Argentina) – "Crab, Tender, Casa Galpón, Spiders" David Griffin (OCAD University, Canada) – "Knots and Knotting: A Poetics of Drawing Water" Melisa Paz Miranda Correa (UC, Chile) – "Drawing Through Amuya: Andean Epistemologies and the Relational Practice of Landscape". Paulo Ito (Brazil) – "Lines in Motion: Drawing, Gesture, and Urban Reflections" Kiera O'Toole (Loughborough University, UK) – "Drawing Spatialized Feelings: Counter Mapping Atmospheres"Sara Schneckloth (University of South Carolina, USA) – "Marking Ground"

Seminar presenter: Architecture, Urbanism, Public Art, participation, Drawing, and the Environment,  University of Lisbon, University of São Paulo, 8th Nov 2024.

In 2024, a new line of activity will begin with the aim of fostering transatlantic dialogue dynamics on Architecture, Urbanism, Public Art, participation, Drawing, and the Environment. This dialogue seeks to develop among professors, researchers, curators, public administration, producers, and artists who express themselves in Portuguese and Spanish, with a focus on Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, among other regions.
This initiative is co-produced by Dr. Pedro Soares Neves from the University of Lisbon and Prof. Dr. Lilian Amaral from the University of São Paulo, organizers of two synchronous seminars, one in Europe and the other in the Americas, respectively APD - Architecture, Public Art, Drawing (online) and the Nomadic Seminar Valongo Expedition (hybrid).

DRN2023 Drawing in Relation: Affect & Agency

The second event in this year’s DRN series of Drawing in Relation events at Loughborough University is concerned with entanglements of agency and affect. The artists present work that is informed by art theoretical narratives of embodiment and new materialist conceptions of post human and more than human intra-actions. They are interested in the way that phenomenologies of space, atmosphere and site affect the form and structure of expanded practices of drawing, how a new materialist lens creates opportunities for thinking about who or what draws in arts practice research as they trouble the nature of and agency and subjectivity through drawing intra-actions within a specific place.
Kiera O’Toole’s drawings are created in-situ, often in response to a particular environment such as a beach or a cave. O’Toole refers to her drawings as ‘felt maps’ to describe the recording of the phenomenological emotional experience of a site’s atmosphere through a gestural and embodied approach. O’Toole states that ‘The drawings attempt to record something that is neither a thing nor a quasi-thing but something more felt than thought.’

Kiera O’Toole, a practice-led PhD student at Loughborough University. Her research examines drawing’s capacity to record and materialise a site’s atmospheric emotional tone. O’Toole publishes including contributing book chapters; 2021; ‘Project Anywhere Biennial IV’, published by University of Melbourne and Parsons, School of Art, NY; 2020: ’Drawing from the Non-Place’ published by Cambridge Scholars

Seminar Presenter: NOT JUST NED: THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE IRISH IN AUSTRALIA,

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA , 2nd July, 2011 https://www.nma.gov.au/__data/assets/audio_file/0004/529213/not-just-ned-what-sort-of-his-020711.mp3Not Just Ned: what sort of history of the Irish in Australia? Symposium chaired by Orla Tunney, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Ireland, with short contributions from other speakers giving their opinions on the Not Just Ned exhibition.

Shane Carmody, Pat Cooke, Vale Noone, Keira O’Toole and Orla Tunney

Conference presenter with Dr. Annemarie Murland, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

20th Australasian Irish Studies Conference
Sydney, December 2013
Convenors: Ronan McDonald and Gemma Clark

The mission of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand is to promote and facilitate the advancement of knowledge about Ireland and Irish matters broadly conceived in Australia and New Zealand.

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Artist Talk: Sculptors Drawing Space, 2022   Many thanks to Mark Richards FRSS
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Conference Poster: Making Connection' ; Mapping Creative Encounters, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, Sept '23 - Feb'24.

Felt Maps: Documenting the ’emotional vibrations’ of everyday atmospheres

This practice-led research examines the process of drawing in-situ as a means to document one’s pathic felt-bodily sense. By examining how the affective and expressive qualities of atmospheres, as understood within the theory of new phenomenology, we understand how the gesture of atmospheres as corporeally felt impulses might influence the gestural drawing process. By examining the pathic knowledge of the drawer’s felt body, the research examines how the spatialised feelings of atmospheres can re-emerge through the reduced form of the linear mark.The research elucidates this drawing process through a new-phenomenological lens that extends our everyday life experiences beyond the five senses to include a pathic sense.

Drawing within the research expands the premise that ‘drawing is phenomenology,’ that is: drawing is understood as an embodied act that records its own creation while recording the trace of the drawer (Harty 2009, 2012, 2015) to include a phenomenology of pathic practice as a method of enquiry into the spaces in which we draw. The drawings are referred to as ‘Felt Maps’ which is a self-devised term and are defined as records of the phenomenological experience of the ‘emotional vibrations’ of atmospheres. This research contributes and expands upon the knowledge and practice of drawing as a phenomenological act to offer a more meaningful account of what is usually referred as ‘’in-situ’, background’, ‘surroundings’ or ‘environment’ within the process of drawing in-situ process.