Sales for 2 Men Drawing’s exhibition at Mario’s Cafe will commence at 6pm Tuesday 17 January.

2 Men Drawing

A drawing is more than a reminder of life – it should acquire a life of its own.

For more than forty years, 2 Men Drawing have been capturing events, buildings, animals and scenes from everyday life in two contrasting styles – one carefully worked, full of fascinating detail and always complete – the other quickly sketched with flowing lines like exuberant tangles of yarn and often incomplete.

Working in the life-sketching tradition of European masters such as Toulouse Lautrec and Feliks Topolski using charcoal pen and pencil, 2 Men Drawing capture the shifting moods of life in their city: faces, figures, buildings, the light of forgotten afternoons.

 

Bruce Harvey (r) and Pete Mills (l)

Peter Mills
Completing an architecture degree in the late sixties. He spent time with BSM and IM Pei & Partners, working on Collin’s Place and the now Sofitel Hotel, before opening his own practice and later joining business partner Craig Gorman. An early compulsion to sketch was developed in the mid seventies after Peter met ad man Bruce Harvey over lunch.

Bruce Harvey
Studied drawing at RMIT in the late sixties whilst working at Myer Advertising. Later he worked at Ad agencies Thompson Ansell Blunden and Paton Australia before opening agency Harvey and Harvey. Bruce met architect Peter Mills over lunch.

2 Men Drawing: The Film

Book Information

ISBN: 978-0-646-99074-3
Paperback: 88 pages

Published: First Ed. Oct. 2018
Second ed. Oct. 2021

Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: 2 Men Drawing