2004

Tree Drawings

Amy Doherty, Poppy Stedman and Sam Stephens
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Kingston University

D&AD Student Awards Winners
John Gillard Award
The Jerwood Drawing Prize

This set, open-ended brief, developed from a project simply entitled
“24 hours”. Each student or team of students, were asked to interpret and develop the brief in any direction they wished. 

This team of students focused on the natural world and its timescale which often goes unnoticed. 

By attaching pencils to the end of branches of ten different species in Richmond Park, the passing of time was recorded from the perspective of these fascinating organisms. As the winds blew, the trees made beautiful, sensitive drawings on the paper positioned beneath them.

The project came full circle, when I further encouraged them to make a complete set of pencils, from the trees that made the drawings.

It also ended the debate about trees being inanimate objects or not.