Sorcha Dallas

The exhibition features eleven internationally acclaimed artists, many of whom have not been seen widely in Britain before. As a group, their work represents a vast range of possible interpretations of drawing, from meticulously rendered scenes from everyday life to three-dimensional drawings invading architectural space. All of these artists treat drawing as a primary means of expression, a practice in its own right, with its own integrity. Drawing foundered in art schools in the 1970s, tainted by academicism, but recently it has undergone a resurgence of popularity, partly because of its accessibility as a tool for communicating personal visions and ideas.

The end of the Line: attitudes in drawing is organised by Hayward Touring in collaboration with mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and The Bluecoat, Liverpool, in association with The Drawing Room, London.

Just as the formal and stylistic parameters of drawing have expanded, so has the range of artists attracted to it. This exhibition includes animation by the Japanese artist Naoyuki Tsuji, who exploits the subtle traces left when erasing charcoal; the Belgian painter and draughtsman Michaël Borremans who creates enigmatic scenes in which the scale of figures and buildings is disrupted; Fernando Bryce who appropriates graphic imagery from colonial era newspapers and magazines, skilfully translating the language of photography into his own in pen and ink; Chilean Sandra Vásquez de la Horra who invents fantasies worthy of Goya.