Land Lines with Kirsty Badenoch

A visual-textual journey through the “Land Lines” workshop, hosted at Drawing Matter in February 2025.

To mark the passing of Alberto in Autumn 2024, we traced their footsteps and fingerprints from London to Sardinia and back. Working with Ponis’ pathway drawings in the Drawing Matter archive alongside geological maps of London and Sardinia, we drew time-and-space connections. We embarked on drawing “walks” together, exploring ideas of drawing-as-listening, and observing-as-designing. The workshop was embodied, involving physical as well as metaphorical walks, and drawing at 1:1. We worked with originals from the Drawing Matter Collection – the Ponis’ original drawings, and John Ruskin’s rock collection.

As part of a Develop Your Creative Practice Grant from Arts Council England, I (Eleanor) participated in this workshop.

Limited edition copies available for purchase here from Kirsty Badenoch.