You could say ‘to feel is to think and to think is to feel’ and to draw is to register these creative phenomena and manifest their relations. The impulse to inscribe feeling and thinking through the immediate and authentic form of drawing is universal.  Mejia kicks off its 2024 program with an exhibition celebrating contemporary drawing practices coming out of RMIT’s School of Art in recent years. Current Drawing department staff members Ruth O’Leary and Benjamin Sheppard have assembled their work along with RMIT alumni and three prize winning 2023 graduates—a humble local survey of recent drawing practice in the continuum of people making marks that communicate feelings and embody thought.

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Zoé Pietrzniak

Table Drum, 2023

2 x (100 x 150 x 20 cm)

timber, goat skin

Table Drum (back of room)

Zoé Pietrzniak

1 / 2, 2023

graphite on paper

25 x 14 cm

Zoé Pietrzniak

5, 2023

graphite on paper

14 x 10 cm

Zoé Pietrzniak

2 / 2, 2023

graphite on paper

25 x 14 cm

Table Drum (front of room)

Zoé Pietrzniak

Tower of Mothers, 2023

graphite on paper

14 x 10 cm

Zoé Pietrzniak

Grappling Hold, 2023

graphite on paper

25 x 12 cm

Annie Wallwork

Tere (1), 2023

graphite on paper

150 x 2700 cm

$3,200

Ruth O’Leary

Festival of Sadness, 2024

watercolour on indian rag paper

Ruth O’Leary

Waiting (for my baby to leave her home), 2024

watercolour on indian rag paper

Rachael Goy

a mark that is not easily removed, 2023-2024

gel pen, dye based ink and tear staining on paper

120 x 80 cm