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: $475
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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
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.