Lines of Thought: Drawing Dissected

Isabel Seligman is the Bridget Riley Art Foundation Exhibition Curator in the department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. She is working on a project encouraging art students to explore and take advantage of the museum’s vast graphic collection, comprising 50,000 drawings and over two million prints. She is the curator of the touring exhibition Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now and author of the accompanying book published by Thames & Hudson. Isabel will talk about the project which has seen nearly a thousand students from art schools across London visit the British Museum to draw from works from the Renaissance to the present. She will discuss the influence this has had on the curation of a show examining drawing as a thinking medium.