Ref: SWE31614
This course is designed for those with a practice in making, but who are looking for ways to fully develop their ideas before embarking on time and resource intensive processes. Whether your practice is in ceramics, glass, jewellery, sculpture, painting, textiles, fibre art, etc., two-dimensional or three-dimensional, you will learn and use processes to develop initial ideas to their fullest potential.
You are encouraged to bring images and objects that you are inspired by as a starting point; the tutor will provide some as well. You will explore their potential using a wide range of research to influence your ideas, and you will explore themes and think laterally, which can reveal rich veins of inspiration. You will use observational and non-observational drawing and collage techniques to explore and interrogate your inspiration, and find the shapes and forms that you wish to harvest for your own use.
Once you have your ingredients, you will look at ways of combining research and inspiration, exploring more drawing techniques and using the photocopier to its fullest potential to produce multiple iterations for each idea, combining, reviewing and refining with the freedom available with these multiple material and time light processes. We will work as a group to support each discovery and explore ways to be a critical friend in the creative process.
By the end of the course, you should have a number of ideas/ designs ready to be developed in your chosen media, as well as ideas you wish to develop and explore further with the new processes and practices you have used.
Arrival Day - this is the first date listed above
Courses start early evening. Residential students to arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm.
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included).
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential.
Daily timetable
Classes 9.15 - 5pm, lunch is included.
From 6.30pm: Dinner (included for residential students).
Evening working - students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with their tutor's permission and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Last day
Classes 9.15am - 3pm, lunch is included.
Residential students are to vacate their rooms by 10am please.
(This timetable is for courses of more than one day in length. The tutor may make slight variations)
Trained in Fine art At Nottingham Trent University, Anna has worked in arts education for over 20 years. Anna’s practice explores the material nature of thinking and “working out”, the much-maligned value of making something nice to look at, and the symbiotic relationships between learner, educator, artist, audience, art and place.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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