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 Art Workshops

Workshops are for all levels, suitable for groups or individuals, teenagers above 14 years old and adults. This set of workshops will increase the capacity of visual memory, will improve confidence in recognising art styles and will give the satisfaction in newly acquired skills.

Art Workshops are carried out in-person’ and online. Below is the description of the basic set. There are more programs developed for patients at mental health hospital and for general public during 2020-2021 with the support of Arts Council England and a-n: The Artists Information Company.

1. Art-Laboratory. Muscle Memory Exercise.

Experience: when drawing a participant can imagine or recollect different movements. It is a muscle memory exercise and evokes thoughts about relations between the hand muscles, active environment and feelings. Imprints of the work reflect the process in which a participant had been involved. Students are encouraged to use big pieces of paper roll.

 2. Art-Publishing. Exercise for attention.  

Audio/teacher Instruction will guide participants through a proactive process of filling a sketch book in order to develop creativity. Participants can work individually on separate books or together on one book. Sizes vires from A6 to A2, depends on participant skills and ambitions.

 3. Art-Manufactury. Exercise for Visual Memory. 

Two part-session. During the first part, participants will be given video and published catalogs for browsing. The second part will be a drawing session when participants will be drawing from memory recollection. Students are encouraged to produce many pictures.

4. Abstract Art workshop. Drawing, painting, 3D assemblages, collages from images and imagination.

The workshop will focus on developing the ability to build up skills on transforming 3D images into 2D artworks and vice versa.

5. Narrating through visuals. Speed-drawing class for building visual narration.

Participants of this workshop usually have a distant idea for developing a story for a small book. The structure of the workshop assists in creating a unique story through visualisation and minimal text.

6. Printmaking. Lino cut, mono prints, collagraph.

General and advanced technique in printmaking. Participants will be able to apply newly acquired skills for printmaking small, medium and larger projects.

Publication from speed drawing workshops Art-Manufactory. Please, click the link below:

Investigating Art Movements through Speed Drawing. Short publication.

Project Videos 2017-2025

2020. COVID19.

The artwork was comissioned by Willesden Gallery for the exhibition in 2020.

This is an Artist's response to online art workshops. The book of 20 folds metaphorically represents the substance of online relationships built with patients of a mental health hospital. The Art Process: The flavour of printmaking ink is strong. Provokes real longing for life experiences.

The Printing press encapsulates COVID conditions. The Artwork: Rests inside a black box. An envelope of darkness. Hardware. Marks - reflected replies to my first efforts during the first online workshops, when artists were forced to rertrain to become life presenters and online teachers.

2018. The project ‘Your Prisons - Our Cells’ questions the humanity of systems, the purpose of punishment, discipline, and control. Her visit to the HM Prison Reading (2016) and The Ballad of the Reading Gaol (O. Wilde) are sites for her visual response. The idea was induced by reading Discipline and Punish by Foucault, were surveillance is described as an effective disciplinary device, which assures the automatic functioning of power. The only solution is ‘Self-discipline.’ She walked around the prison in the North of the UK.

My art practice involves mixed-media installations, using printmaking, sculptural forms, and video. in 2018, my research explores the role of women in society. After volunteering for the Mental Health Hospital and Women after Prisons Art Workshops I had tremendous change in the understanding of female efforts and their role in society. Since January 2018, I have been trying to visualize and to find textual connections for the main elements in bringing up civilizations in processes of birth and breastfeeding. I chose to work with clay and printmaking to represent the correlation between natural forms, lines and the intangible aspect of time. Then I applied results to throw wheel techniques distinguish the sculptures unique qualities in reflection to the individuality of human beings. I incorporated printmaking process to echo the reproduction

and each man exclusive features at the same time.

2015-2017. The project “MMXVIII Passages” has been in development for more than  two years. Throughout my life, moving between countries has often made me wonder about people and their life journeys. The general concept is based on the fact that the mass of people moving between countries legally and illegally is equal to the 5th largest country with a population more than 244 million.

2016. London Streets, UK. Willesden Gallery commissioned the project Contested Space based on research into London’s streets and traffic situation. The outcomes inspired by the vibrant atmosphere were presented in the Solo Exhibition, which displayed artworks of various printmaking techniques and video installation with 7m film. For the production of the film, the professor of the Fine Art Department at CityLit London College travelled by bike and recorded the traffic on the streets of London.

The title, Contested Space, reflects a social situation where everyday participants of the city’s traffic compete for their personal track spaces and the shortest journey time. Places filmed: Holborn, Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Square, St. Thomas' Hospital, Trafalgar Square, and streets of London.

2016. Draft for Pavements. Part of research for Contested Space project.