Mondays 10am to 5pm – 3 x 10 week terms:
Two Term fee £1270 Termly fee £675
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THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL. Should you like further information on upcoming courses or on alternative courses please get in touch with the school.
This course will give you an opportunity to develop your own work whilst receiving guidance and mentoring in a supportive community of artists. It is intended to increase confidence, creativity and a sense of direction; helping to provide strategies for establishing and growing new bodies of work culminating in an online exhibition at the end of the year.
On this practical course Adrian and Guy help you to develop structures and methods for accessing imagery and ideas for your artwork. Part of the aims of course will be to stimulate conversations both verbally and visually within the group. Questions thrown up will be as rich and varied as the group itself. Work will be dedicated to the development of ideas, and from these ideas to articulate through paint and mixed media a personal response to questions that arise through your investigation and discourse.
The artist-tutors, and visiting tutors, on this programme are all practising and exhibiting artists who are working on their own projects. They are here to help each student clarify their ideas and develop their short and long term goals.
Above image: Omega Man by Adrian Wiszniewski RSA
Each class will have a presentation, a group discussion, time for you to work individually on your own projects, and where need be you can ask or be given a project-idea, receive one-to-one tutorials and as a group, work on similar agreed goals over the course as a whole. At the end of each day there will a group crit to review what has been done during that day.
Please note this course is limited to 10 participants. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
About the tutors
Above: Adrian Wiszniewski
Below: Guy Allott
Adrian
Glasgow born Adrian Wiszniewski is one of those multi-faceted artists who has worked in many different fields from painting to music. Adrian has his work in major public and international collections such as the Tate Britain Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum London The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Metropolitan Museum New York, Setagaya Museum Tokyo, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, London and multitude of awards include the Haldane Trust Award in 1982, the David Cargill Scholarship in 1983, the Mark Rothko Memorial Award in 1984, the I.C.C.F. Best Design Award New York in 1993 and the Lord Provost Gold Medal from City of Glasgow in 1999. As a global artist Wiszniewski has had solo exhibitions in London, Sydney, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ghent and Tokyo. A Glasgow School of Art graduate Adrian is one of the leading members of the New Glasgow Boys part of the revival and resurgence of figurative painting in the late eighties and nineties >>> read more>>>
Guy
London based Artist Guy Allott was born in the market town of Hexham Northumberland in 1972, a graduate of Central Saint Martins (1999) and the Royal College of Art (2002), Guy is a versatile artist who works across several disciplines from painting to printmaking to sculpture and woodcuts. As a young painter and sculptor Guy made playful cardboard maquettes of spaceships and paintings of surrealistic landscapes, sometimes combining the two in painted depictions of what he called Landscape Spaceships¹. By 2009 Guy work was exploring and subverting traditional representations of landscape in relation to man’s desire to explore and control nature²; his paintings and sculptures present a fantastical merging of the philosophies of science and culture, offering a critique of historic social beliefs alongside an investigation into the contemporary³. Today Guy’s work appears in private and public collections in Europe, The United States and Asia including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Royal Society, The British Library Collection, Fidelity and the UBS Art Collection. Guy is the recipient of the First Base Award from ACAVA (2003) and is one of the founders of IntoArts a charity that teaches painting and the arts to students with learning disabilities >>> read more>>>
Course timetable
| Term | Dates |
|---|---|
January Term | 9 Jan to 20 Mar 2023 Half Term 13 February |
| 9 Jan to 20 Mar 2023 – Half Term 13 February | |
| April Term | 17 April to 3 Jul 2023 Half Term 29 May (Please this term has 2 holidays the 1 May and 29 May) |
