Description
In this course, ‘Baroque your world’ we will be looking at the techniques, visual devices and strategies employed by artists from the renaissance, baroque and rococo periods, and we will think about how to use them in our own work.
We will look at contemporary artists (such as Genieve Figgis and Dale Lewis) who make considerable use out of artists from these three periods, and we will think about how to make transcriptions of our own from various paintings..Artists always learn from drawing from the past, in this course we will make that learning explicit. Come and baroque your world!
About Archie Franks
Archie holds a post graduate diploma from The Royal Academy Schools, 2012, and a First-Class BA, Honours degree from City & Guilds London Art School, 2009. He is the recipient of various awards and honours including the Jerwood Painting Fellowship, 2016, the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting, The British School at Rome 2013; Tooth Award 2012; Gordon Luton Award 2012; Richard Ford Award, 2011; and the Philip T Ribbon Award, 2011.
Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Salon London, 2017 and Welcome Screen, London 2015. Select group shows include APT Gallery London, 2019; Narrative Projects London, 2018; Mall Galleries, London, 2018; Mercer Chance, London, 2017; Edicola Radetzky, Milan, 2017; The Jerwood Painting Fellowship Show, Jerwood Space, London, touring to the Arts University Bournemouth, Cardiff Bay Arts, and Norwich University 2016-17; Transition Gallery, London, 2016, 2015 and 2014; Block 336, London, 2015; Horatio Junior, London, 2015 and 2014; Transition Gallery at Sluice Art Fair, London, 2015;
A.P.T Gallery, London, 2015; Riss(E), Varese, Italy, 2014; The British School at Rome, Italy, 2014; The Romanian Academy in Rome, Italy, 2014; Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, 2013-14; ICA, London, 2013-14; Spike Island, Bristol, 2013; Fort Gallery, London, 2013; Peles Empire, Cluj, Romania and London, 2012; Barbican Arts Group, London, 2012; Royal Academy Schools Show, London, 2012; Premiums Royal Academy of Arts, London, 201; Royal Academy of Arts, London 2011.
