Critical Mass Draw

Artist-led group, The Drawing Shed, took over an empty Woolworths with the aim of giving everyone the opportunity and free materials to be creative.

The event was well publicised through five local schools, posters and house-to-house leafleting.

The artists attracted more families by wheeling their mobile drawing studio, The Drawing Shed, through busy East London streets to the tube station, stopping en route for guerrilla pavement drawing.

Inside the familiar space, they encouraged families to fill large areas of paper lining the floor, while teenagers delighted in using broad markers for Manga-style portraiture on the windows.

Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust Awards

The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust aims to increase public appreciation of the arts and music. Their awards recognise educators, artists, teachers and others who use The Big Draw to extend their audience’s perception of drawing and to engage them in innovative activities. They reward organisers whose events relate to their setting, local environment or community, show a clear purpose and good results. Individual drawings may have been used to create a collective artwork, or a public display to celebrate participants’ achievements.