Family events photo gallery

Big Draw 2006

Families worked together with a professional artist to create a MEGA map; a huge collaborative drawing combining 2D and 3D elements.

Participants were invited to draw and construct a model of their own home and then place it on a giant map in relation to the gallery and river. Visitors then used a variety of materials, thinking about colours, patterns and shapes that reflected their mode of transport, to draw the route they had taken from home to get to the gallery that morning.

At the end of the workshop everyone was invited to step back and view their map of London which consisted of incredible 3D homes and a beautifully intricate lattice of drawn marks all extending centrally to the gallery, marking peoples’ routes.

A contribution to the mega map during the 2006 Big Draw event.

A girl adds to the 2006 Big Draw event.

A boy helping with the event.

A boy and a girl helping with the 2006 Big Draw.

Drawing of houses by the river on the mega map. Big Draw 2006.

Drawing of houses. Big Draw 2006.

A train station on the mega map. Big Draw 2006.

Houses and trees on the mega map. Big Draw 2006.