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Expanded Drawing // Embodied Inquiry

Wednesday 17 June 6 – 9 pm Tutor: Ginny Elston This workshop will work with the body as a primary means of mark making and drawing. We will explore how drawing can be an inquiry into the internal, felt sense of the body, as opposed to an external form to be described. Responding with a sense of creativity and imagination to a series of props and everyday materials, we will explore how our drawings can speak of more abstract and also more felt phenomena, such as time, movement, internal spaces and states. Students will work individually for this workshop, using simple, lo-fi materials to explore a range of approaches to mark-making. Through a series of guided prompts, you’ll experiment with gesture, repetition and scale, allowing drawings to develop through movement and process rather than aiming for a fixed outcome. As the session develops, you’ll work at a larger scale across wall and floor surfaces, using the body as both a tool and a point of reference. Marks are built up through layering and accumulation, creating drawings that sit between the abstract and the experiential. The workshop is process-led and exploratory, with space to follow your own responses as they emerge. Artists such as Rebecca Horn, Bruce Nauman, Tony Orrico and Karina Smigla-Bobinski offer useful reference points for this way of working.

Wed 17 Junlook and draw workshops

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Expanded Drawing // Interrupted Marks

Wednesday 8 July 6 - 9 pm Fiona Oliver Larkin & Jill Martin Boualaxai Drawing habits form quickly. Most of the time the pencil sits close to the page, the wrist anchored, the marks controlled and efficient. This workshop interrupts that. Using extended tools, weighted handles and unusual grips, we’ll experiment with drawing tools that don’t simply obey the hand. A long stick changes your reach. Added weight slows the movement. Familiar gestures stop working in the same way. As the conditions shift, the marks begin to change. Lines wobble, drag or hesitate. Movement comes from the arm and shoulder rather than the fingers. Through a series of simple exercises, we’ll explore how altering the relationship between body, tool and surface changes the mark that appears. The drawing becomes less about control and more about gesture and response to what happens on the page. The session connects to practices where tools sit between the body and mark-making, including the work of Rebecca Horn. Expect large paper, improvised tools and plenty of experimentation. Suitable for all levels. Materials provided.

Wed 8 Jullook and draw workshops

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