Award for Thame’s Big Draw event

THAME’S Big Draw event, held last Autumn in the museum, has won a Drawing Inspiration Award from The Campaign For Drawing.

The Big Draw was organised by the group of artists from the Thame area, Sparkartists. The Thame event was awarded a prize in the Highly Commended category, and as can be seen from the list of winners below, was in good company:

2008 Drawing Inspiration Award recipients

Trailblazers
The British Museum, London
Crawley Borough Council, West Sussex

Winners

Matravers School (Specialist Arts College), Wiltshire
ReachOutRCA (Royal College of Art), London
Ruskin Mill, Prema Arts Centre & Sir William
Romney’s School, Gloucestershire

Runners Up

Barrow Hill Junior School, London
Courtauld Institute of Art: East Wing Collection VIII
Goldsmiths, University of London
Milton Keynes Gallery

Highly Commended

Aspex, Portsmouth
Ordsall Community Arts, Greater Manchester
Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
Portsmouth City Council, Corporate Initiatives
Sparkartists, Oxon
St George’s Primary School, Worcester
West Walls Studios, Cumbria

All Award winning events will be represented in the Campaign for Drawing’s annual Drawing Inspiration publication as examples of best practice for
future Big Draw organisers, and will be presented with their awards at a ceremony for which details will be published later.