Overview
Where do ideas come from? Can you go out and look for them, or can you find them in books, inside your own house or memories? How do you respond to other people’s imaginative worlds, whether visual or literary? This course is for artists who want to explore the role of story and sequence in their practice, illustrators who want to abandon formulas, writers who want to combine pictures with their words, drawers who want to write, or anyone new to image-making who would like to build a visual vocabulary in relation to narrative, poetry and the sequential image.
Through a range of experiments in drawing, collage, poetry, storytelling, listening and looking, we will consider how to create tensions and harmonies - between words and pictures, tone and colour, texture and ideas, developing fluency in our individual practice and becoming 'bilingual' in the two languages of drawing and writing.
Please note this course has an emphasis on the use of imagination and memory which can at times elicit difficult feelings for some.
