Sketching at the museum: V&A
Time: 10:30 - 16:30
Location: Off Site
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- Course Code: VH064
- Dates: 01/05/25 - 01/05/25
- Time: 10:30 - 16:30
- Taught: Thu, Daytime
- Duration: 1 session
- Location: Off Site
- Tutor: Heidi Wigmore
Course Code: VH064
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Duration: 1 session
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What is the course about?
An introduction to sketching in different areas of The V & A Museum. Drawing will be explored in its broadest sense by gathering information through image making, research and interpretation. Enjoy the challenge of expressing yourself in fresh ways through a personal response to the collection and in discussion with the group.
Explore a range of approaches with a variety of drawing media, using experimental mark-making, light and shadow and colour to interpret the objects on display.
Meeting place will be at the main entrance on Cromwell Road. You will then be given a plan for the day by the tutor. Please be on time as the tutor can only wait max 15 mins for latecomers. Please contact Visual Arts if you are running late
The tutor will have your phone numbers in case they need to get in touch in an emergency.
What will we cover?
* Quick sketching
* Experimental mark-making
* Intuitive response
* Line, tone, pattern, texture
* Volume and form
* Scale and spatial relationships
* Inter-relationship of objects on display
* Sketching as research.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Start to sketch a range of objects and artifacts from observation
- Investigate different methods of drawing
- Interpret and reinterpret work in the collections
- Sketch with greater confidence in public space.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This course is for you if you are a beginner or:
- You want to learn more about how to sketch as research
- You have not used a sketchbook before
- You need more confidence looking at and understanding museum collections
- You’d like to broaden your ideas of what drawing is.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
You will receive individual guidance and group discussion to enable you to develop your practical work in thesketchbook throughout the day, supported by a handout and itinerary.
Please note the Meeting place as above.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Please bring an A5 or A4 hardbacked Sketchbook preferably one that opens out flat, and a selection of:
Drawing pencils eg HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, Glue stick, coloured pencils, felt pens/markers, rubber and sharpener,biro/fine liner and any other materials that are portable, clean and easy to use in the gallery eg oil pastels/crayons etc.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Sketchbook: Ideas, materials, techniques
50 Drawings in a day
Contemporary Drawing Studio.
Heidi Wigmore BA MA PGCE is a visual artist whose diverse practice including public art projects, billboards, banners, film and participatory live art events is informed by drawing, particularly relating to dynamic performative female figures. The impulse of the work is to challenge, resist and critique societal perceptions of female experience through a hybrid visual language appropriating myriad historical, global and cultural references. She has been the recipient of a number of public arts funding awards for her projects including Arts Council England. She is artist workshop leader for English National Ballet where she has developed ‘live drawing’ events at The Coliseum, Sadlers Wells the Royal Albert Hall that explore the common language of drawing and dance. She has also led drawing events at Tate Liverpool, at the Turner Prize for Hull City of Culture and for the British Museum exhibition ‘Lines of Thought’.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.