Circle Drawing is part of a series of large-scale drawings all made initially in front of a live audience, drawing one continuous line at full arm’s length until complete exhaustion; most performances last in duration between 2 – 4 hours and each work is titled by its duration.

The vinyl artwork evolved from the idea of the drawing as sound. Created in the studio McCall documented her drawing through the recording, 16 minutes for SIDE A and SIDE B.

McCall’s Circle Drawing performance-based practice began in 2004 while an art student at the University of Toronto, Canada, studying Art and Art History. In 2007 the work became the foundation for a practice-based research PhD, thesis titled ‘The Line is a Brea(d)thless Line: introducing the physicality of running as a form of drawing’, and McCall later co-authored the publication: ‘Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945’ (Bloomsbury 2020). The sound of drawing has always been a key element in McCall’s work and the artist is now developing the circle to another version of the line in time.