The Drawing Shop
Created by Johnsey to have a space where local communities can come and engage with art and make work for free. He has worked in ongoing collaboration with the public, schools and other community groups, to create an ever growing archive of drawings, paintings and sketchbooks with the starting point of mark-making.
This project has generated over 1000 drawings, paintings and sketchbooks of works in progress called ‘The Drawing Shop’ which they invite the public to collaborate on with them. The gallery features a rolling exhibition programme of work that has been made in The Drawing Shop during our time in Hillsborough – the works have been made by members of the public and artists from ArtWorks.
‘The Drawing Shop’ is an inclusive and accessible open-studio environment where the public are invited to engage in free creative sessions with ‘The Drawing Shop’ team, and everyone is welcome! They currently operate on a pop-up basis moving from space to space, and this time they are in Hillsborough and have taken over the old Wilkos.
