In WORKING DRAWING, the artist’s proposition is to utilise DRAW Space as a hybrid workshop, studio, exhibition and event space where the labour of drawing as practice, pedagogy and field of enquiry is made evident through his daily inhabitation and activations. Visitors will be able to activate a large sound drawing made in homage to John Cage and watch drawings being produced by various drawing automata, including the artist’s version of the 19th-century harmonograph and by the very 21st-century Sensilab Drawbots. The exhibition’s title paraphrases and adapts from a pivotal 1966 conceptual art project by American artist Mel Bochner ‘Working Drawings and Other Visible Things On Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed As Art’. Warner’s assimilation flips the homonymous words from Bochner’s referencing noun usage to the active verb usage to emphasise consideration of drawing as productive cultural labour and to address the essential question ‘What can drawing be?’ “You are invited to be your own lamp.” Gary Warner Images courtesy the artist and DRAW Space.