Explorations in Figure Studies
10 Week Class | Available
This course is intended for students wishing to develop their figure drawing beyond simple representation, to give students a greater scope of familiarity with depicting the human form both technically and conceptually. Using a variety of media, students will learn to take chances and create lively and thought-provoking works. Consideration will be given to different ways of reacting to and representing the figure - as a piece of design, a metaphoric symbol and within a conceptual idea. Examples of relevant artists' work will be shown.
For the less experienced students, the course provides an opportunity to gain confidence through taking creative chances in a supportive environment. And for students with more developed drawing skills, it offers an opportunity to explore new ways of seeing and using the figure, strengthening conceptual approaches and exploring alternative material use.
Notes:
- The class will work from nude or costumed models: the poses will range in length from gestures to 3 hours.
- It is recommended that students have taken an Introduction to Drawing course, or have some drawing and/or figure drawing experience
Base Tuition: $475 + Model Fee: $120 = $595 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Emphasis on different ways of reacting to and representing the figure
- Looking beyond replication & rendering to interpretation and design
- Consideration of what is important about the figure and form and how to best capture and communicate that
- Discovering new ways of thinking about the figurative identity & form and the opportunities for new ways of expression
Gillian Iles
Since 1997, Gillian has exhibited in public institutions, artist-run centres and commercial galleries in Europe, USA, South America and Canada. Ideas draw from geopolitical events and their relationship to individual experience. She finds commentary within power dynamics, social constructs and systems of belief related to colonial Western culture; particularly their manufactured existence, illusionary value, tenuous persistence and questionable motives. Contradiction, impermanence and precarity are relevant at all stages – within idea, material choices and methods of presentation. Gillian’s practice spans painting, sculpture, constructions, sound & video. Installations merge real and illusionary space into a composite of realities and points of view. Often large-scale, her installations respond to the opportunities of a space and ways to implicate the viewer. She is a founding member of two artist collective galleries in Toronto - Propeller and Loop, and has been with Red Head collective since 2012.