Drawing as Expanded Practice - Evening Course - 8 weeks

Day: Wednesdays

Dates: 9 October 2024 – 4 December 2024

1 x week break for Half Term – Wednesday 30 October

Time: 18:00 – 20:00

Level: Beginners (18+)

Tutor: Ana Vicente

Location: 124 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4DJ

Cost: £235 / Early Bird rate: £210

COURSE OVERVIEW

In this eight-week course, we will take drawing in its rawest sense and explore ways to connect with it to understand, record and reframe being in the world. Together we will take drawing as a process and not as a fixed outcome; and expand it in the direction of movement, sculpture, writing and performance. We will focus on the importance of creative experimentation as we engage with a range of materials, sites, processes and ideas. We will explore the possibilities of drawing as a language, as a way of thinking and as a way of imagining a world.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will be structured by posing a series of weekly problems/ questions/instructions devised to ignite your curiosity for exploration and for thinking through making. The course aims to create a space where you develop your own definitions of what drawing is for you, free of expectation, judgement, or conceptually accepted norms. Therefore, we will use methods and materials that may not be immediately associated with drawing in its most traditional sense– as a two-dimensional activity carried out with dry marking materials on paper. Instead, some of our methods will include walking, asemic writing, sensorial mark-making, choreographic scores and others. You will work individually as well as collaboratively.

At the end of the course, you will have explored a set of approaches that you can use in your own practice, that being a creative practice or other (i.e. gardening, cooking, teaching, science, engineering, sailing, mudlarking, etc…). Such approaches will develop your confidence in employing creative ways of understanding, recording and reframing the world underpinned by an expanded drawing practice that is personally meaningful to you.

No experience of art or drawing is necessary, but a sense of curiosity and openness to play and explore both individually and as part of a group is essential. This course will be useful for anyone interested in exploring/ reigniting their creative practice therefore it is also suitable for (but not restricted to) artists, designers, architects, filmmakers, dancers, writers and performers.

What’s included: The course will include all materials and tools specific to the different weekly activities.

What to bring: You are advised to bring a sketchbook/ notebook, pens, pencils, scissors and any other mark-making materials of your choice. A camera for taking photographs and/or video is also advisable (i.e. own mobile phone), yet not essential. You may be asked to source own objects to bring for specific sessions.

10% discount available for City & Guilds of London Art School undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation students and alumni, and staff. Contact to receive the discount code.

Participants must be aged over 18.

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