Workshop with Kirsty Badenoch – 22 February 2025

Land Lines: Drawing as Working the Land
11.00–16.00, Saturday 22 February 2025
8 Smart’s Place, London WC2B 5LW

Land Lines: Drawing as Working the Land was a workshop led by Kirsty Badenoch that took place at Drawing Matter in February 2025. The workshop was based around the working drawings and design processes of the late Alberto Ponis and his wife Annarita, and the time Kirsty spent with them at their home in 2021. It explored ways of reading, walking, and drawing with the landscape.

Alberto and Annarita’s drawing, designing and building processes are deeply rooted in place—connecting local landscape knowledge with organic modernism, ecology with geology, craft with weather with wild. To mark the passing of Alberto in Autumn 2024, we traced their footsteps and fingerprints from London to Sardinia and back. Working with Ponis’ pathway drawings in the Drawing Matter archive alongside geological maps of London and Sardinia, we drew time-and-space connections. We embarked on six 1:1 drawing ‘walks’ together, exploring ideas of drawing-as-listening, and observing-as-designing, and seeking new ways of engaging across species, geologies and ecologies.

Alberto Ponis (1933), Plan, Yacht Club Path, Punta Sardegna, Sardinia, 1965. Coloured ink over print base on pink paper, 363 × 1015 mm. DMC 2921.1.
Alberto Ponis (1933), Plan, Yacht Club Path, Punta Sardegna, Sardinia, 1965. Coloured inks over print base on yellow paper, 365 × 1007 mm. DMC 2921.2.

Kirsty Badenoch is an independent artist, drawing researcher and architect. She works with fragile and fractured landscapes, communities and ecologies to develop place-based projects that forefront more-than-human agency. With 10 years experience practicing landscape architecture, Kirsty currently teaches at The Bartlett School of Architecture and University of Cambridge; and has led drawing workshops and courses at Goldsmiths UAL, Drawing Room and Architectural Association. Kirsty is curator at Microscope, an experimental arts-and-ecology space in Dalston.

Land Lines was the first workshop of Drawing Matter’s Public Programme in London. To be notified of future events, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Instagram.