Ref: SWE31652
Drawing and writing are intimately connected, primal means of communication. The rules of grammar live deep in our unconscious, even entering our dreams.
Working with plenty of charcoal, paper, ink and movement, this course aims to increase confidence, challenge preconceptions and release creativity by extending your drawing and creative writing practice. Using techniques derived from theatre, yoga, performance and psychology, you will be invited to explore your imagination and memory by observing inner and outer worlds.
Through a series of exercises you will delve into your imagination and subconscious through the haptic senses of touch, hearing, taste and smell. You will explore various ways of seeing, including synaesthesia, memory images, after-images, eidetic and dream images.
Explore ways that drawing and writing can combine and inform each other, including asemic and automatic work. You will also engage in a series of visualisation exercises leading into writing about your own work. The result could be a poem, a statement, an artwork, or somewhere in between.
Inspired by artists and thinkers like Mira Schendel, Henri Michaux, Peter Blegvad, Roland Barthes and Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Proust and Henri Bergson, you will leave with a suite of drawings from small to large, a series of written pieces and new and vital strategies for unlocking your creativity.
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)
Tabatha Andrews makes sculptures, performances and installations exploring memory and communication. She works with a range of materials including drawing, wood, felt, glass, bronze, light and sound. Her award-winning work engages with a wide variety of contexts, from hospitals to forests, cathedrals and galleries. She has collaborated with composers, choreographers, scientists and community groups.
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