The Big Draw Crawley

During Crawley’s 60th anniversary celebrations, the council ran wide-ranging activities to investigate how drawing can engage communities.

Visitors at Crawley Museum sketched objects, designed tiaras inspired by an exhibition of jewellery for Crawley’s Carnival Queen, and made finger puppets based on parkland creatures.

Crawley Art Society ran a Walk on the Wild Side at Tilgate Park, inviting visitors to focus their art on human and animal feet.

The Friends of Worth Park Gardens commissioned artist Steven Follen to devise an activity promoting the park. The result, Discovering Heritage, was crazy croquet, played with paint-dipped tennis balls flying across rolls of paper. More sedate participants sketched Victorian artefacts and horticulture.

In the County Mall, A Crowd Draws a Crowd involved painting and dressing larger-than-life mannequins to represent the borough’s history, and papering the crowd with cut-out people.

A multi-media performance at Hazelwick Secondary School brought cultural diversity and artistic challenges for students and their families.

Sunrise Nursery’s Home Sweet Home exhibition at the Civic Hall spurred Council staff to submit their own work for an auction in aid of the Mayor’s Charity.