Join us from the 31st July - 4th August for RuptureXIBIT’s Summer School!
‘Tales of Oddity’: Performance and writing based exercises exploring the imagery and poetics of inner worlds with Garance Paule.
‘Introduction to Figurative Drawing’: develop your technical drawing skills and enrich your practice through taught life-drawing and reference based exercises with Sadie Wight
‘enter the f/ol\d: somatic and artistic artmaking’: Master of Dance and performance Susan Sentler will host a short session within the summerschool. Students of Susans are welcome to jump in on other workshops at the conclusion of Susan’s short programme.
During our Summer School, expand your practice, try something new and create lasting connections with your fellow participants as these workshops run side by side throughout RuptureXIBIT Gallery and Studios, in a hub of creative exploration!
***Update (September 2023): Pictures of the Summer School Courses have been added below! Thank you to everyone who attended our first ever Summer School, if you would like to attend our workshops please sign up to our newsletter (bottom of page) for regular updates of all our events and shows!***
Sadie Wight: Introduction to Figurative Drawing.
Introduction to Figurative Drawing is a five day workshop led by visual artist Sadie Wight. During this course, participants will develop their drawing skills through both theory and practice based exercises.
Firstly, we will be exploring the concept of ‘gesture’ and its application in drawing from life, with the opportunity to participate in life-drawing sessions. As we progress through the week, the focus will move to volume and shape, working from references that will be provided.
Participants will need to bring their own paper/sketchbooks, drawing implements (charcoal, pencils and pens are recommended, but please bring anything you feel comfortable working with.) A reading list will be provided.
Thank you to those who attended the ‘Introduction to Figurative Drawing‘ workshop last week, and to Sadie Wight for leading the course and delivering such an exciting and informative five day programme!
Throughout the week, participants worked with themes of gesture, volume, shape, perspective and anatomy. Starting and ending the week with drawing from the live model, participants watched their confidence and skills grow, leaving with the tools needed to further their practice!
I was lucky enough to participate in this course, and couldn’t have hoped for a more productive week. Sadie‘s teaching and encouragement skyrocketed my confidence in figurative drawing- I’d always shied away from drawing people, especially from imagination, and I didn‘t expect I’d see such a big improvement in just five days! - Rupture’s Olivia.
The Collective Imaginaries x RuptureXIBIT Summer School.
Garance Paule Querleu: Tales of Odditty
A Collective Imaginary is a co- created sanctuary of artistic exploration in which particulars become embodiements of universal elements allowing an interplay between chaos and order, masculine and feminine, light and darkness
Collaborating with Meditation Teacher Sophie Wright and curandera Maria Garcia, Garance Paule Will facilitate a Collective Imaginary on the theme of Odditty.
Tales of Odditty is a three day imagination-centered Art and Mindfulness « Atelier» wherein sign, form, colour, meditation and movement may reveal our stories of difference, care for our oddities.
Tales of Odditty will run for 3 days, Monday 31st, Wednesday 2nd and Friday 4th.
Course Overview:
Part One: Visuals of Difference
Live Music Therapy, Introduction to symbolical play, Introspective mindfulness visualization, Sketching Signs and Symbols, Somatic Dance.
Part Two: Poetics of Difference
Defining my ‘Difference’, The language of Difference : From Word to Sign, The Image, Transforming a ‘Difference’ deemed negative into an Image inspired by Nature.
Part Three: Stories of Difference
Collaborating on the co creation of a visual and poetic story Creation of public display.
Watering the pistil of creativity,
nourishing in the nectar of imagination,
I am a flower which blooms
In sways,
Inside,
Outside,
Inside,
Outside…”
Susan Sentler: enter the f/ol\d: somatic/ artistic artmaking.
Join us at one of two half-day workshops on Monday 31st July, from Susan Sentler, at £30 per session.
Susan Sentler, from her shared research practice with Glenna Batson:
the f/ol\d as somatic/artistic practice
What can a fold be? A vessel, womb, pocket, pleat, crease, cavern … an/other way to enter
corporeality through the discovery of the vibrancy of thinginess. In this time together, we will
explore the f/ol\d – a practice of somatic/artistic making – of letting things appear.* The f/ol\d
becomes alchemical through improvised languaging, gesture and collaging of material and
media. Come dive into and out of our enfolded topographies.
Participants will partner with material/media – paper, fabric, photography, text, drawing, and
filming. The mix of materials with moving matter helps to propagate a multiplicity of
possibilities, becoming an archive/anarchive** of process.
* from Tufnell & Crickmay 1988 A Widening Field: journeys in body and imagination.
**anarchive, https://3ecologies.org/immediations/anarchiving/anarchive-concise-definition/
Susan Sentler is an artist rooted in the field(s) of Dance, Performance, Visual Arts as educator/lecturer, maker/choreographer, director, curator, researcher, dramaturg, and performer. She has worked globally with conservatoires, academies, conferences/symposiums, etc., and for all levels of higher education, meriting Senior Lecturer status from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Susan’s practice is inter/trans-disciplinary, anchored by a honed somatic relationship to image, interested in dissolving the indexical to yield an expanded materiality. She has ongoing collaborative practice as research with colleague Glenna Batson titled the f/ol\d as somatic/artistic practice (https://thfold.net). Susan focuses on gallery/museum contexts creating/collaborating on ‘responses’ or ‘activations’ with specific exhibitions/artistic works and choreographs durational installations orchestrating still/moving image, objects, sound and absence/presence of the performative body. Her work has been exhibited, screened and/or performed in the UK, USA, Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Recommended materials list:
Comfortable clothing to move in
Paper of varied sizes, volumes
Journal
Varied writing/drawing tools
Fabrics of varied types/sizes
Charged smartphone, using video and/or photos