Students worked on The Acre at Headingley Campus on Thursday, as the space became an enormous drawing area with the help of visiting artist Erik Alkema.

The students created large-scale characters which moved across The Acre and interacted with each other to produce a live drawing which was visible in total from the air, and was photographed by an overflying plane. The video of the live event will be screened in the Library late this week.

Mr Alkema described his mission statement as an artist, "I see myself as a storyteller. But a storyteller who has a big conflict with the limitations of language. I am driven by the frustration that words, with which we tell and think our World, are never good enough and are at most bad approximations.

"Speaking in images gives me the opportunity to show black and white at the same time. To look for nuances, but without getting grey. To stage conflicts which are not one dimensionally conceivable."

Leeds Met, Big Draw: Beyond the Line, is proving to be another opportunity for students and staff to celebrate the diversity and importance of drawing.

The event forms part of the National Campaign for Drawing's annual Big Draw, and follows on from a gathering of 750 students and staff earlier this week at the University's Library, in an effort to demonstrate how a learning space might be re-imagined in an innovative and unique way. Activities included Drawing an Audience, Blackboard Banquet Tables, The Ideas Stall, Literary Genre Tattoos and The Extended Drawing with Nous Vous Design Collective.