‘The One Year Drawing Project’ is an artists’ book project that follows a 29-month drawing exchange between four artists. The project began in May 2005 with the creation of four drawings that were then exchanged between the four participating artists, to create further sequences of drawings. A time frame of 52 exchanges, corresponding to 52 weeks in a year was set at the outset of the project. In the end, the project took longer than a year and was completed in 18 months. Set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war, where notions of time disrupted almost every aspect of daily life, including the capacity to create art and exhibit, the project was an attempt to understand the relationship between time and the nature of dialogue within the context of a conflict. A timeline of events accompanying the book was compiled by artist and researcher Mariah Lookman.
Gallery 1 Home, Land, Survey, Country
1Fig. 1 90° 18’ 43.057 N 80° 47’ 11.726, E (2014)
Cassie Machado (b. 1982)
2Barrelism Tourist Map (1997)
Chandraguptha Thenuwara (b. 1960)
3GPS Drawing: Jaffna to Delft, 9.30 am to 10.30 am, Boat, 10 Feb 2015 (2015)
Muhanned Cader (b. 1966)
4GPS Drawing: Jaffna Hostel (Kalviyankadu) to Ramanathan Academy (Maruthanarmadam), Three-wheeler, 12 km, 26 April 2012 (2012)
Muhanned Cader (b. 1966)
5GPS Drawings, England 2011, Oxford to Paddington, Train, 1.01 pm to 2 pm, 2011 (2011)
Muhanned Cader (b. 1966)
6GPS drawing: Killinochi to Vavuniya, Train, 2011 (2011)
Muhanned Cader (b. 1966)
7GPS Drawing: Kudirimale to Wilpattu National Park Gate, 53km, 1.40 pm to 5.40 pm, Jeep, 7 October 2017 (2017)
Muhanned Cader (b. 1966)
8GPS Drawing: Fuengirola to Córdoba, 8.30 am to 11.18 am, Bus, 9 August 2017 (2017)
Muhanned Cader (b. 1966)
9GPS Drawing: Babaragasthalawa to Kumana campsite, 10 km, 1.15 hr, Jeep Toyota 4×4, June 2011 (2011)
Muhanned Cader (b. 1966)
10Independence Day Colombo 1991 (1991)
Stephen Champion (b. 1959)
11St Peter’s Old Boys Reunion, Colombo (1991)
Stephen Champion (b. 1959)
12Private Lessons, Colombo (1991)
Stephen Champion (b. 1959)
13Rosie’s Deportment Class, Colombo (1989)
Stephen Champion (b. 1959)
14Tourist, Ahungalla (1991)
Stephen Champion (b. 1959)
15Spoken English, Balangoda (1988)
Stephen Champion (b. 1959)
16If You Boycott the Elections the Penalty Is Death, PRRA, Peoples Revolutionary Red Army, Galle (1989)
Stephen Champion (b. 1959)
17Corridors of Power: Drawing and Modelling Sri Lanka’s Tryst with Democracy (2015)
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