I recently worked on Live Drawn Stages, a R&D project gratefully supported by Visual Arts South West as well as Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio. Taking from the learnings of previous R&D project Live Illustration Expanded , I partnered with Bristol-based performer Tom Marshman to live illustrate on stage two of his shows. We were given access to the beautiful stages at St Georges’ Bristol and Ashton Court Arts Mansion to test these projected live drawn scenographies. It was fascinating to experiment with symbolic texts and explore how live drawings can extend the metaphor to create a magical atmosphere.
Photograph Khali Ackford joined us to document this project.
Read more about this project on Watershed’s blog here.