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Quick on the Draw is an exhibition looking at the everyday uses of drawing.
This exciting exhibition at the Museum of Croydon, illustrates the diverse uses of drawing, from a fireworks company who draw designs for fabulous multimedia displays to a wallpaper designer.  Quick on the Draw shows how drawing can help recreate the appearance of extinct animals, develop a computer game, or design a guitar.

We use drawing to help people understand ideas, work out problems and communicate thoughts.  In Quick on the Draw you can see how in the twenty-first century we continue to use drawing as widely as ever.  Its scope and power has been dramatically enhanced by the introduction of new technologies.

The exhibition is divided into three sections. The first is The Great Wall of Drawings, a visual bombardment of drawings used in an astonishing range of different activities, trades and professions: an A to Z of the uses of drawing from architect to zoologist. The second section is Drawings Working, a series of case studies looking in detail at the uses of drawing, including those for palaeontology, wallpaper design and town planning.

The drawings are shown in context, highlighting their value and function in achieving the end result and the finished product is displayed alongside the drawings. Drawings by the architect Will Alsop, used as a basis for a consultation exercise about the future of Croydon as it might look in 2020 are on display alongside drawings made by people in Croydon as part of the consultation process. Will Alsop will also be producing a canvas for the exhibition, in collaboration with a local community group inspired by the idea of building a cathedral in Croydon to give it city status.  The work will be added to the exhibition.

The third section is Everyone can draw! where visitors will have the opportunity to put pen to paper.  This gives visitors a chance to focus on aesthetic qualities, shape and form, volume and space, colour and texture and to have some fun! There will also be a series of FREE workshops for children.