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 imagemaking 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,
pictures, tone, colour, texture, and ideas. In
doing so, students will develop fluency in
their individual practice and become
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.
