attRAct Programme Spring 2020

attRAct Programme Spring 2020

Welcome to attRAct!

Friday 17 January1.30–5.30pm

Clore Learning CentreBurlington Gardens

All new attRAct students are invited to this special welcome event which will introduce you to key members of the Learning team at the RA, including the attRAct Project Manager and attRAct Assistant.

There will be a number of team building exercises to introduce you to the other attRAct students, and lots of opportunities to explore the RA campus and become more familiar with your new creative base, including practical workshops and a tour of the RA.

Life Drawing

From observation to imagination, via invention

Friday 24 January10am–4pm

Life Drawing RoomBurlington House

Places: 25

In the first in a programme of life drawing workshops for attRAct this year, held in the RA’s historic Life Drawing Room, Mark Hampson, Head of Fine Art Processes for the RA Schools, will introduce you to the potentials of the medium of drawing: including mark making, gesture and expression.

Focusing on developing skills in lateral thinking and observation, this first session sets out to challenge you. Mark will explain how adopting specific methods and ways of seeing can open up your creation of observational images and abstractions in a variety of mediums. You will draw from a professional life model.

Life drawing has been established within the programme as a vital strand of practical, traditional teaching that underpins the development of artistic skill and development. With a history of life drawing that spans back to before the establishment of the RA Schools, the Royal Academy of Arts is the perfect place to explore this skill. Mark Hampson is an artist and Head of Fine Art Processes at the RA Schools. His hybrid artworks merge digital and handmade narrative approaches using combinations of invented and appropriated imagery that create new histories, often of a comic nature. He is a keen collector of toys, old prints and any old rubbish that catches his eye or makes him laugh.

attRAct Programme Spring 2020

Workshop

ArchitectureEco-Visionaries

Friday 7 February10am – 4pm

Clore Learning CentreBurlington Gardens

Places: 25

Join Jack Carter Architects for an insight into analysing and imagining architectural spaces, taking inspiration from our exhibition Eco-Visionaries. The exhibition brings together architects and artists who are proposing inventive ways in which to address the most pressing issues of our times. This workshop gives you the opportunity to develop your own responses.

Careers

Examine and explore

Thursday 13 February4.30 – 7.30pm

Clore Learning CentreBurlington Gardens

Places: 30

We will explore the design brief for a highly sustainable building through drawing and architectural models. We want you to be bold and imaginative and explore how architecture can have a positive impact on our homes and communities.

At the end of the day, you will have the opportunity to present your proposal to a jury. This workshop is not just for aspiring architects, all budding designers are welcome! Jack Carter Architects (JCA) are a London based design studio consisting of Jack, Abigail, George and Tom. Founded in 2016, Jack worked for the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Paris for seventeen years as an associate leading a variety of internationally recognised projects including the New York Times Building and the Shard redevelopment of London Bridge. JCA are currently working on a number of pavilions in the UK, a community hub building in Cape Town, South Africa and a new campus for Santander in Liverpool.

Gain a wider understanding of the ideas and processes within your work through a series of informal exercises and discussion-based games.

Group critiques are a cornerstone of art school and life as an artist. This session provides the opportunity to receive that all-important feedback on your work as well as considering alternate ways of working and gaining skills in critical analysis as you evaluate your work, and that of your fellow artists.

This workshop’s aim is to leave you buzzing with new ideas for your work and with a clear strategy of how to make those ideas happen. Jake Garfield studied at the Royal College of Art and the Royal Drawing School. Through printmaking, he explores the relationship between images and reality in contemporary life. In 2018 Jake launched Line of Thought, which provides workshops at the intersection of art and philosophical discussion at institutions including The Royal Drawing School, The Royal College of Art and The Whitechapel Gallery. He is the recipient of the Royal Drawing School Printmaking Prize in 2013, the Durham Wharf Award in 2015 and the Printmakers Council Prize in 2016.

attRAct architecture events are supported by

attRAct Programme Spring 2020

Careers

Portfolio Reviews

Friday 28 February1.30 – 4pm

Life Drawing RoomBurlington House

Places: 25

Workshop

Screen printing: an introduction

Friday 6 March10am – 4pm

Clore Learning CentreBurlington Gardens

Places: 20

Led by RA Schools students Agnieszka, Jala and Irini, this session gives you the opportunity to talk to practising artists about your work. Take advantage of the opportunity to see what work other students are producing and to ask questions such as:

• How do I develop my ideas? • How do I show my research and

thinking? • What work should I take with me to

interview? • How should I structure my portfolio?

Please come to the session with your portfolio or specific works of any medium that you would like to talk about.

Agnieszka Szczotka, Jala Wahid and Irini Bachlitzanaki are all postgraduate students at the RA Schools, a school of contemporary fine art that offers 17 artists the opportunity to participate in an intense three-year programme each year. Graduates from the RA Schools continue to influence art and culture in the UK and across the world through art practise, education, research, artist-led spaces and collaboration.

Screen printing is a very versatile print process which allows artists to make multiples whilst experimenting with colour and surface. In this workshop, RA Schools print fellow Adam Hogarth will introduce you to the basic concepts and techniques of screen printing in a fun and challenging way.

Adam will explain the historical context of screen print, from its Pop Art roots (think Andy Warhol) to the work of Turner Prize nominee Ciara Philips. You will be introduced to the tools, inks and materials used in screen printing before being taught basic techniques, focusing on monoprint and stencilling. Adam Hogarth is the etching fellow at the RA Schools. He graduated from Northumbria University in 2008 with a BA Hons in Fine Art and from The Royal College of Art in 2013 with an MFA in Fine Art Printmaking. Since then he has worked as a screen printer for the commercial fine art publisher Advanced Graphics, and at The Working Men’s College as an etching technician and tutor. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the ICA as part of the 2013 New Contemporaries, The William Morris Gallery, Spike Island (Bristol), Danielle Arnaud Gallery and Jyvaskyla Print Triennale. His artwork is a realisation of the slow, impending march of our individual and collective doom.

attRAct Programme Spring 2020

Excursion

Victoria and Albert MuseumSouth Kensington

Friday 13 March10am – 4pm

Meet outside South Kensington tube station

Places: 20

Once a term the attRAct programme will take you out of the RA to introduce you to other aspects of the art world on a day-long excursion. We will visit independent galleries, artist studios, research centres and archives and exhibitions at other institutions.

Careers

Research as practice

Thursday 26 March4.30 – 7.30pm

Clore Learning CentreBurlington Gardens

Places: 30

This term, join us as we explore London’s Exhibition Road, where we will be visiting the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, which has a unique and exceptional collection of paintings, sculpture, print, photography, textiles, casts and ceramics spanning over 5,000 years of art and culture.

This will be a good opportunity to learn more about both traditional and contemporary art practices, to get a good understanding of how large cultural institutions are managed, and how artists find inspiration from museum collections.

The V&A is the world’s largest museum of applied and decorative arts and design, as well as sculpture, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

We will also be visiting the Serpentine Gallery, which is a contemporary art gallery located in Hyde Park. Established in 1970, the Serpentine Gallery is a leading arts institution showing emerging and established artists from around the world. Its annual summer Pavilion has become a site for international architectural experimentation.

In this workshop, RA Schools student Rebecca Kay will introduce you to a range of artist practises that focus on research, rather than using it as a jumping-off point for a final physical piece. You will look at a wide range of artists, from people that use their bodies as research, to artists that produce publications, collections and curate exhibitions as their final pieces.

Through discussion and an exchange of ideas, you will produce zines, collages and mind maps during the session, and come away with a much broader knowledge of alternative artistic research practices.

Rebecca Kay is a current RA Schools student whose work engages sculpture, photography, written word and curatorial practice. Kay graduated from Manchester School of Art (2016), was the 2016-2017 recipient of the Woon Prize Fellowship, Newcastle and was part of School of The Damned, an alternative art course (2018).

attRAct Programme Spring 2020

Workshop

Life DrawingDon’t avoid the difficult bits!Facing up to heads, hands, feet and faces

Friday 27 March10am – 4pm

Life Drawing RoomBurlington House

Places: 25

Workshop

Sculpture mayhem

Friday 3 April10am – 4pm

Clore Learning CentreBurlington Gardens

Places: 20

In the second life drawing class for attRAct this year, Mark Hampson, Head of Fine Art Processes for the RA Schools, will drill down into the technical aspects of life drawing, introducing insights into proportion and anatomy. Using exercises that reveal how drawing was traditionally taught in the RA Schools, students will work directly from the antique casts of the RA, a skeletal model and a professional life model.

Life drawing has been established within the programme as a vital strand of practical, traditional teaching that underpins the development of artistic skill and development. With a history of life drawing that spans back to before the establishment of the RA Schools, the Royal Academy of Art is the perfect place for you to explore this skill.

Mark Hampson is an artist and Head of Fine Art Processes at the RA Schools. His hybrid artworks merge digital and handmade narrative approaches using combinations of invented and appropriated imagery that create new histories, often of a comic nature. He is a keen collector of toys, old prints and any old rubbish that catches his eye or makes him laugh.

In this workshop RA schools students Liv Preston and Millie Layton aim to take you through a journey of complete disorder and confusion to appreciate the beauty of sculptural destruction. We will work together to create large sculptural forms to then spend equally as much time destroying them. We will draw on artists who use these methods in their practice to create new freedoms within their work.

Using a combination of traditional sculpting techniques, drawings, discussions and brute force we will create a day of sculptural mayhem with a focus on embracing mistakes and destruction

Liv Preston and Millie Layton are professional troublemakers who are both currently studying at the Royal Academy schools. Both have sculptural based practices and have exhibited extensively across the UK and internationally.

Workshop

Clay: an introduction

Friday 24 April10am – 4pm

Clore Learning CentreBurlington Gardens

Places: 20

From the earth beneath our feet, to bricks, crockery and hip replacements; clay in its various forms can be found throughout our everyday lives. In this workshop you will have the chance to investigate the possibilities of clay through making.

Working experimentally, you will begin the session by learning basic hand building skills such as coiling and slab building, enabling you to make functional and sculptural forms. We will also look at how clay can be used as a mold to create plaster casts, and how to use coloured clay to create a collaged abstract tile. Throughout the workshop we will be taking inspiration from artists and designers who use clay, exploring the history and alchemy of this wonderful material.

Lydia Hardwick graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2013. Primarily using clay, her practice engages with formal aspects of sculptural ceramics, and the creation of design objects. She leads workshops in museums and galleries across the UK and has exhibited internationally. She collaborated with Assemble on their Turner Prize winning project Granby Four Streets and her designs for this project can be found in the V&A’s permanent collection.

An amazing opportunity for students aged 7–19 to exhibit their artwork online and at the Royal Academy of Arts

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LocationAll of the workshops will take place at the RA unless otherwise stated. Practical workshops always take place in either the Clore Learning Centre (Burlington Gardens), or the Life Drawing Room (Burlington House). Both of these spaces are in the main building of the RA.

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The Royal Academy of Arts is an independent institution led by distinguished artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.

Royal Academicians

Eighty governing artists – Royal Academicians – all practising painters, sculptors, engravers, printmakers, draughtsmen and architects, are elected to the Royal Academy. All RAs are required to donate an example of their work. Past Royal Academicians include Sir Joshua Reynolds (the first President of the RA), John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Current members include Bob and Roberta Smith, Yinka Shonibare, David Hockney and Tracey Emin.

RA Schools

The Royal Academy’s art school is the oldest in Britain. Around fifty students study drawing, painting and printmaking on a free three-year postgraduate course.

Summer Exhibition

One of the founding principles of the RA was to ‘mount an annual exhibition open to all artists of distinguished merit’ to finance the training of young artists in the RA Schools. Now known as the Summer Exhibition and held every year without interruption since 1769, the exhibition attracts around 12,000 works, with the edited selection made by Royal Academicians.

Exhibitions

The RA presents a continuous programme of temporary, internationally acclaimed exhibitions covering all periods and art forms.

Collections and Library

The RA owns a major collection of works by Royal Academicians, past and present, and has the oldest and one of the most beautiful fine arts libraries in the UK.

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