Look & Draw Workshops

NEXT WEEK HAPPENING with Ginny Elston
Expanded Drawing // Embodied Inquiry
Wednesday 17 June · 6–9pm /£45
What happens when movement and sensation inform drawing as much as observation?

Working with simple materials and guided prompts, you’ll explore how marks can emerge from a felt sense of the body, responding to ideas of time, space and internal states.

As the session develops, you’ll work on a larger scale across wall and floor surfaces, using the body as both a tool and a point of reference. Through repetition, layering and accumulation, drawings will build and evolve over time, creating unexpected connections between movement, sensation and mark-making.

Suitable for all levels. All materials provided.

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Expanded Drawing // Embodied Inquiry | Look and Draw Wednesday 17 June 6 – 9 pm Tutor: Ginny Elston This workshop will work with the body as a primary means of mark making and drawing. We will explore how drawing can be an inquiry into the internal, felt sense of the body, as opposed to an external form to be described. Responding with a sense of cr...

Last week Jill Martin Boualaxai ran the first session in the Expanded Drawing series, exploring drawing through objects, surfaces and trace.
We collected marks from the fabric of building itself and objects within it, taking rubbings, and inking objects as a means of recording surfaces. The session then moved into three large collaborative drawings. Using the objects as tools, participants translated the marks from the collected surfaces used built marks together across shared sheets of paper.

One of the key ideas we explored was rhythm in drawing. As marks accumulate, a surface needs variation; dense areas and open spaces, light and dark tones, different kinds of gesture and shape. Rather than filling every space, the challenge was to respond to what was already there and allow the drawing to develop a sense of balance. The result was a series of layered surfaces where traces, fragments and gestures accumulated over time.

Thank you to everyone who joined the session.
Expanded Drawing continues next month. More info here: https://www.lookanddraw.co.uk/service-page/expanded-drawing-interrupted-marks?referral=service_list_widget