The Idea into Artwork
10 Week Class | Available
This course provides guidance, feedback and community for developing an idea or a body of work. The student initiates the artwork concept and the course focuses on determining and working through an approach most suitable for the idea. Development of an artwork relies on understanding the nature of the idea and making relevant and meaningful decisions about content, composition, colour and media that support and deliver the initial intention. This course will address all the stages and variables, moving through the creative process, to achieve the conceptual goal.
The course will include group discussion of ideas, experiences and process, along with periods of actively working on artwork. Feedback will be provided as students work through ideas, roughs, and final artwork. Additionally, image slide shows, demonstrations and lectures/discussions highlighting visual principles and examples will aid in developing ideas into artwork. Students are encouraged to work in the medium of their choice (drawing, painting, photography, digital). Content is applicable to artists working both representationally and abstractly. Ideally students come to this course with one or several ideas that they want to explore and develop.
Base Tuition: $480
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- What You Will Learn:
- To develop a better understanding of what motivates your work and your personal visual language and how to direct it
- To break down your initial idea and identifying the key goals
- To identify critical visual statements when setting up an image
- To make relevant process decisions to support your goals (e.g. content, composition, colour & media)
- To refine reflection, critical analysis and effective problem solving throughout the process
Gillian Iles
Gillian's practice consists of painting, sculpture and video/projection. She has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Chicago, Miami, Montreal and Toronto in public institutions, university galleries, artist-run centres and commercial galleries. Her work has been highlighted in Canadian Art, Mix Magazine, Toronto Life Magazine, as well as the National Post and The Globe and Mail. She is featured in the book Carte Blanche Volume 2: Painting. Gillian was a founding member of two artist-run galleries in Toronto - Propeller and Loop, and is currently a member of the Red Head Gallery in Toronto.
Her environmental scale installations include combinations of paintings, sculptures, constructions video and projection, creating installations incorporating both real and illusionary space, transforming exhibition spaces into a composite of alternate realities.
The composite imagery presents an array of contradictions as a sensory collage of fleeting instants that shape greater social identity & individual perception.
Gillian teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Sheridan College and the Toronto School of Art in Canada.