John Berger writes..

can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past has suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.

I know too that the powerful fear art, whatever its form, when it does this, and that amongst the people such art sometimes runs like a rumour and a legend because it makes sense of what life's brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us, for it is inseparable from a justice at last. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts and honour.

ArtLab 2010-2011

Here is  a list of the workshops I intend to offer during ArtLab clubtime:

1. Shy Drawing, Loud Drawing: learning how to see
   - how speed effects your drawing;
   - learning to see outlines;
   - learning to see negative space;
   - using relationships to help your drawing;
   - warming-up exercises;
   - why tearing up your drawing can be creative;
   - how to make your mistakes useful
2. Why use a sketchbook?
3. Perspective: a perspective
4. Using projection: large group drawings
5. Drawing Storyboards 1: Characters and Places
6. Drawing Storyboards 2: 99 ways to tell a story
7. Basic Photography: using the darkroom as a camera
8. Basic Photography: taking the photograph 'for a walk'
9. Ceramic Sculpture 1: basic form building
10. Ceramic Sculpture 2: working from a model
11. Sculpture from mixed materials
12. Printing techniques 1: scratch & compress
13. Printing techniques 2: layering
14. Painting: using paint, mixing colours
15. Painting: a portrait
16. Painting: a story
17. Performance art: the classics
18. Performance art: your own
19. Site-specific art
20. New media art

Giacometti in his studio

Welcome

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past has suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.

John Berger

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.