Figure Concepts
5 Day Workshop | Available
This workshop is designed specifically for intermediate level students who wish to focus on ideation within their figurative work and deconstructing intuitive responses to the figure. Students will reflect on why they use the figure, what the figure means to them and how they are most interested in using it as a means of expression. Historical and contemporary themes on the use of the figure will be presented. A personalized approach to responding to the figure and fulfilling a desired outcome will be emphasized.
Part of the class experience will be sharing inspiration, ideas, imagery, and ways of approach that will foster a collaborative spirit and collective learning. Although this course is conceptually focused, attention will be given to strategic process decisions (colour choices, media methods and formalism/design opportunities). Options for approaching a multi-figure scenario and the role relationships between figures will be addressed.
Notes:
- The course includes 1 model per day (Monday-Thursday)
- There will be two different model set-ups, each running for two full days.
- Students working in all media are welcome.
- One hour lunch break each day.
- Friday, June 26 will be a half day artwork presentation and discussion, starting at 10AM & ending at 1PM.
Base Tuition: $442 + Model Fee: $100 = $542 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Reflection on & identifying what draws you to the figure
- Gain insight into the diversity of ways the figure can be approached and used
- Use of the figure as a means of communication and expression in one's own work
- Making strategic colour, media handling and formalism & design decisions in relation to idea
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.