About Course
Two term fee £1320 Term Fee £710
Limited number of places available. Please book early to avoid disappointment
In this practical course Adrian and Rosanna help you to develop structures and methods for accessing imagery and ideas for your artwork. Part of the aims of course will be to stimulate conversations both verbally and visually within the group. Questions thrown up will be as rich and varied as the group itself. Work will be dedicated to the development of ideas, and from these ideas to articulate through paint and mixed media a personal response to questions that arise through your investigation and discourse.
The artist-tutors, and any visiting tutors, are all practising and exhibiting artists who are working on their own projects and are available to help you clarify your ideas and develop your short and long term goals.
Each class will have a presentation, a group discussion, time for you to work individually on your own projects, and where need be you can ask or be given a project-idea, receive one-to-one tutorials and as a group, work on similar agreed goals over the course as a whole. At the end of each day there will a group crit to review what has been done during that day.
TERM DATES
January Term 8 Jan to 18 Mar 2024 – Half Term 12 February
April Term 15 April to 1 July 2024 –
Note 12 week term due to May Bank holiday on 6 May & Half Term 27 May
End of Year Exhibition Date TBA
About the artist tutors
Adrian Wiszniewski RSA
Glasgow born Adrian Wiszniewski is one of those multi-faceted artists who has worked in many different fields from painting to music. Adrian has his work in major public and international collections such as the Tate Britain Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum London The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Metropolitan Museum New York, Setagaya Museum Tokyo, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, London and multitude of awards include the Haldane Trust Award in 1982, the David Cargill Scholarship in 1983, the Mark Rothko Memorial Award in 1984, the I.C.C.F. Best Design Award New York in 1993 and the Lord Provost Gold Medal from City of Glasgow in 1999. As a global artist Wiszniewski has had solo exhibitions in London, Sydney, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ghent and Tokyo. A Glasgow School of Art graduate Adrian is one of the leading members of the New Glasgow Boys part of the revival and resurgence of figurative painting in the late eighties and nineties
Rosanna Dean
Rosanna Dean b.1988 is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (2019), BA (Hons) Painting Camberwell College of Art (2013) and studied Old Master painting at the Angel Academy Florence. She recently returned from Kerala, researching Theyyam ritual and Indian temples. Her practice addresses conflicting ideologies surrounding representations of the divine. Seeking to establish connections between the ways in which societies have depicted religious belief over time, she combines the features of divergent practices from East to West to create work with a contemporary spiritualism.
Dean is fascinated with the grotesque, and beauty and repulsion intermingle in her canvases. The figures become decontextualized, ambiguous, anonymous forms that hover in space. The body stripped of its individual identity becomes a vehicle for exploring shared fears and experiences. The common site where different perspectives, viewpoints and histories collide. Dean creates an open discourse in deciphering the objects on her canvas and installations, to probe our contemporary beliefs, and question what the body means to her viewer