The value as shown in the works of Drawing Breath is not so much an assemblage of the importance of drawing as a skill or an art even. It provides the unnamed diversity that challenges artists refining draughtsmanship everyday.’ - Bridget Tracy Tan, Director of Institute of Southeast Asian Arts and Art Galleries.                                                                                                 Apart from art and design, drawing is a fundamental grounding for many other fields – including engineering, architecture, and cartography. Drawing remains integral to the visual arts despite the apparent changes in its current discourse. Yet, in spite of its importance, drawing is often deemed only as the means to an end. In art academies, it is more often regarded a skill to be acquired as preparation for students in their major studies like sculpture, printmaking or painting. In Drawing Breath, however, the practice was exalted as a genre for-itself; with its diversity exemplified by the 87 works exhibited in this exhibition.  The first collaboration between Wimbledon College of Arts and NAFA, this travelling show commemorated the Jerwood Drawing Prize – the largest and longest running annual open competition for drawing in the UK, gathered works from prize winners, and participants who have continued to contribute to the debate on the notion of drawing.