Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design
Bachelor of Interior Architecture
Bachelor of Interior Architecture
The 2004
Masterclass for 2nd and 3rd year Interior Architecture students was held
on September 3 and was a drawing Masterclass presented by renowned SA
visual artist Jonathan Dady.
Born in England in 1961, Jonathan Dady trained in both the UK and Australia primarily in sculpture. A particular interest in drawing eventually led to work in both 3-D and 2-D towards a hybrid that deals with drawing as ‘object’ in space. The past five years have seen the development of ideas to architectural scales that seek to mutate the design process by realising ‘propositional drawings’ in real space at actual scale, the proposition becoming the real.
Dady
is fascinated by the actuality of a Drawing in space and, by extension,
the dialogue it can have with that space.
He lectures on a part time basis in Sculpture and Drawing at Adelaide Central School of Art in South Australia as well as past projects in both visual art and design at Adelaide University, The University of SA, Flinders University and Monash University. He has made collaborative work with Architect, Simone Vinall, has worked periodically in Set design, Production design and Art direction for film, he has worked extensively in 3-D Design and fabrication, exhibits in both a commercial and experimental arenas as well as commissioned public works. In 2003 Dady developed a large site-specific work for the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Over
more than a decade Jonathan Dady has developed a practice that is
primarily about the poetry of making things. The work draws upon, and is
expressed in, a broad 3-Dimensional arena.
Working over a full day, Dady and the students explored different ways of using ‘the drawing’ to generate design ideas. Techniques involved continuous line, blade, soft lead and charcoal drawings of an installation Dady created out of found objects in the studio.
