‘Circle Drawing’ is a series of large-scale drawings made all 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; each work is titled by its duration.

McCall’s Circle Drawing and performance-based practice began in 2004 while an art graduate at the University of Toronto, in 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 later co-authored publication titled: ‘Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945’ (Bloomsbury 2020); the sound of drawing has always been a key element in the work.