Take a journey through approaches to drawing using Tate’s collection and exhibitions as subject matter and starting points. This five week practical course explores different techniques and processes associated with drawing and provides the opportunity to experiment with your own mark making explorations while visiting a different gallery space each week. This contemporary approach to drawing is led by artist Sarah Sparkes.
Sketch books and some materials provided. No prior drawing experience required.
Artist Sarah Sparkes exhibits widely in the UK and internationally. Her new work,The GHost Formula, 2016 commissioned by for FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) recently toured to NTMoFA (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts) as part of the exhibition No Such Thing As Gravity. She was the 2015 winner of the MERU ART*SCIENCE award for her film Time You Need, which she recently presented at KOSMICA in Mexico. She runs the creative research project GHost and she has been collecting Liverpool ghost stories, as part of an Arts Council funded project. She exhibits her paintings with New Art Projects, London. Sarah Sparkes is an Associate Lecturer at UAL and she teaches art and curating courses at numerous institutions.
This event has been provided by Tate Gallery on behalf of Tate Enterprises LTD.