Joe Graham

United Kingdom °1980
affiliation: The Royal College of Art, Falmouth University
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Dr Joe Graham is an artist and drawing researcher, currently based between Cornwall and London, UK. He completed his practice-led PhD in Drawing Research at Loughborough University School of the Arts (2015), his MFA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2010), and his BA in Fine Art Painting at Chelsea College of Art & Design (2002). He is currently Lecturer in Drawing at Falmouth University, and Visiting Lecturer in Critical & Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art. His current research is concerned with exploring the phenomenology of the drawn line across a range of media, as part of a larger examination investigating drawing as a form of communication. His work can be seen on his website (www.joegraham.eu) and his published research can be seen on his academia.edu page (https://rca.academia.edu/JoeGraham).

research

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  • ANCHORAGE: a phenomenology of outline (2017) author(s): Joe Graham, Steven Dickie, Chantal Faust published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    'ANCHORAGE' constitutes a collaborative piece of phenomenologically inspired drawing research, undertaken by artists Joe Graham, Steven Dickie, and Chantal Faust. Comprising forty drawings plus a written text, the objective is to ‘outline’ an understanding of the phenomenon of outline, described in an effort to overcome the traditionally definitive descriptions of it that abound (Rawson 1987; Maynard 2005; Thomas and Taylor 2003). In this respect, it constitutes both a relocation and an online extension of an earlier stage to the project, published in print: 'ANCHOR' (2015). In outlining an alternative form of reply to the earlier question (what is an outline?), the purpose of 'ANCHORAGE' is to revisit what was left uninspected or simply assumed; namely, whether an invariant understanding of outline in relation to drawing as a form of art might sensibly be defined. To address this notion, a variety of hand drawn ‘outlines’ by Graham, Dickie, and Faust are supplied for analysis, using original material from 'ANCHOR' as a guide. As lead investigator, the text by Graham seeks to unpack these variations as a part of a Husserlian-inspired methodology (Husserl [1950] 1999). This is geared towards seeking what an essential or perhaps even ‘truthful’ understanding of outline might look like, contingent on the drawings presented here.
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