The functions of drawing are identified as threefold: researchers explore the potential of drawing as a means of documentation of the visual world, as a means of expressing personal responses to socio-political issues, and as a means to developing an intelligence of seeing through innovative teaching strategies - an intelligence which is likely to inform the widest range of contemporary art practices. There is also cross-disciplinary research being undertaken between teachers of drawing, visual psychologists and study skills tutors, testing the hypothesis that indicators of dyslexia might be discerned in the drawings of dyslexic students.See paper at:

http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/kt/include/2007/proceedings/paper.php?ID=1_6

Staff participating in this research group include:

Howard Riley
Robert Newell
Sue Williams