Continuing Professional Development

UCL Slade school of Art

Session 1 - Collage - Make and Remake

Collage as a medium is accessible, low cost, gives fast results and can be a really useful tool as a springboard for drawing, painting and sculpture. By working quickly in collage, it draws on transferable skills such as problem solving, troubleshooting, motor skills, as well as building confidence in decision making. 

Make and Remake - Working with Collage - using this medium as a way of thinking and making:

1. 1. Using magazines, newspaper and tape, we created a collage based on the idea of a portrait/identity 

   2. Using our off-cuts, we then re-used these to make a new portrait/identity

   3. Using new collage materials, we made a new design with a 3-D element based on either a landscape or an interior

   4. Finally, we drew/sketched our collage using pens/pencils

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Session 2 - Collage - In this session we worked with automatic drawing and monoprinting

1. We gridded up our sketchbooks with tape creating 12 boxes.  We then took a pencil for a walk crossing all boxes, we then took a biro pen for a walk.  We then used a thicker black pen to fill in/create marks, making/patterns and shades.  We had the option to add colour if we wished.  As we worked on this, some started to notice faces, landscapes or just abstract compositions

2. Using printing inks on acetate, we created a series of prints exploring our automatic drawings as inspiration

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Session 3 - Zines - In this session we worked with drawing and collage to make two zines. 

1. We made a zine using cartridge paper

2. We then went outside and sketched on each side 

3. We then created another larger zine inspired by our drawings using both collage and drawing

Barbican workshops

The conservatory hosts a range of workshops based on current exhibitions - a spectacular new site-specific commission by Indian sculptor Ranjani Shettar. Cloud songs on the horizon is the artist’s first major institutional show in Europe and features five new, large-scale, suspended sculptures across the entirety of the Conservatory space.

Shettar’s sculptures are each handcrafted by the artist and draw inspiration from the complexity of nature, using a range of materials including wood, stainless steel, muslin, lacquer and techniques that have been adapted from traditional Indian crafts.

On show Fri 12th April - Sun 5th May 2024 and as part of the commission, a series of workshops are available.

Workshops attended were:

1. Weaving using brutalist images of the Barbican Centre

2. Sewing using brutalist images of the Barbican Centre

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