Drawing: 5 days - 5 approaches

Course Description:

This is a course with a difference – 5 days, 5 tutors, 5 approaches to drawing. Throughout the summer school week, students will have a different drawing tutor everyday, each offering their own individual approach. Students will have the opportunity to learn diverse drawing techniques and methods in a dynamic way, taught by established artists who use drawing as part of their everyday practice. The final day will involve a group critique by drawing tutors and other tutors involved in the summer school, allowing for constructive feedback and insight into the work made during the week.

Monday 25th

Mat Chivers

Mat Chivers studied Fine Arts, Sculpture at The Nottingham Trent University and the Escuela des Belles Artes, in Barcelona, Spain.

He has exhibited extensively throughout the UK including the Royal Academy of Arts.

His work is part of numerous private and public collections across Europe and the United States including The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Mochary Collection. He lives in Devon.

www.matchivers.com

Tuesday 26th

Laurie Steen

The Nature of Drawing, the Drawing of Nature: Workshop aimed at freeing up and losing your inhibitions to draw through large movement and shadow drawing.

Laurie Steen studied Fine Art at the University of Calgary and has been a part of many solo and group exhibitions in Canada, Switzerland and the UK including collaborating with artists of many different media on interdisciplinary, performance and design based projects. Laurie has her work in numerous private and corporate collections including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Devon.

www.lauriesteen.com

Wednesday 27th

Humphrey Ocean

Humphrey Ocean studied at art schools in Tunbridge Wells, Brighton and Canterbury. His exhibitions include 'Double-Portrait' at Tate Liverpool 1992, 'urbasuburba' with Jock McFadyen at The Whitworth Art Gallery 1997, 'how's my driving' at Dulwich Picture Gallery 2003 and 'Humphrey Ocean Perfectly Ordinary' at Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University 2009. In July 2009 he appeared in Life Class: Today's Nude on Channel 4 television in association with Artangel. His work is in the British Council Collection, The Whitworth Art Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He lives and works in London.

www.humphreyocean.com

Thursday 28th

Lilly McKelvie

Using thread as line students will explore the physical presence that it commands through various different processes from mark-making with continuous line to create stitched drawings with rhythm, density and distortion, to working in three dimensional forms constructing line sculptures that give the illusion of a solid form existing in space.

Lilly gained a first class degree in fine art and now works for the Faculty of Arts at Plymouth University.

Friday 29th

Stephen Park

Stephen Park comic, poet and artist received a 1st class degree in fine art from Goldsmiths College and an H Dip from the Slade School of Art where he was also the Henry Moore Fellow. His work has been included in New Contemporaries, and "Freeze", curated by Damien Hirst. He has performed at Theatre Royal Plymouth, Phoenix Art Centre, and Chagford Arts Festival and has taught at Middlesex Polytechnic, Camden Arts Centre and the Slade School of Art

www.stephenpark.co.uk

Saturday 30th

Critique group

 

 

Tutors: To be confirmed

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