SACRED WINGS

Join me and create 2D and 3D works that respond to stories: well known stories, haikus, fables and myths, or your own stories, both real or imagined. Some workshops are in the morning, some in the evening and some over one weekend. For more details and to book a place, please follow individual links.

Many Ways to Tell a Story: Many Ways to Tell a Story – Phoenix Art Space

Unfolding stories with drawings, illustrations, mixed media and 3D

Develop visual story telling tools to interpret personal stories, creative writing, poems, myths or folktales. Inspired by picture and artists’ books, illustrated diaries and Eastern European animations, you will learn how to:

• generate ideas through mood and story boards
• create a sequence of images
• design characters
• combine images and text into handmade books or 2D and 3D outcomes

The first half of the course will be structured, offering exercises and starting points while the second will support you with developing your own project and using techniques of your choice including drawing, painting, collage, textile and 3D.

Winter Landscapes: Winter Landscapes – Phoenix Art Space

Create decorative paper structures and concertina books using cyanotype, ink drawings and mixed media.

Cyanotype is a 19th century technique which uses sunlight, objects and negatives of photographs to create ethereal blue images on paper or textiles. In these sessions, we will explore cyanotype techniques, ink drawing, painting, creative typography, collage, mono printing and simple paper manipulation techniques to create figurative or semi abstract imagery inspired by real and imaginary landscapes, natural forms, winter stories and seasonal rituals. You will then have an option of combining your artwork with words into a decorative foldable structure that celebrates Winter Solstice or Christmas.

Ink & Mixed Media Haiku Concertina Books: Ink & Mixed Media Haiku Concertina Books – Phoenix Art Space

In this playful and relaxed weekend course, you will respond to micro-poems and explore traditional and experimental ink drawing, painting, creative typography, collage and mono printing techniques to create figurative or semi abstract imagery. You will then combine your artwork together with words to make a one-off artist’s book: a poetic contemplation of transient landscapes.

Joint the exhibition of paper sculptures, installation and artist’s books by April Yasamee and Dagmara’s burial shrouds for green and traditional burials.

The exhibition will be at the Fishing Quarter Gallery from 26th to 30th of June, 12 -6 pm with the Meet the Artists Event held on Saturday, 29th of June from 4 pm till 8 pm.

About April Yasamee.

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Insta: aprilyasamee

April  Yasamee is a London born artist now based in St Leonards on Sea. Her art practice spans studios across London, Bristol, Italy and Melbourne, Australia. She is a fine artist with an MA in History of Art specialising in mediaeval materials and their meanings and has been influenced by the Italian Arte Povera movement. She is exhibiting a range of her paper sculptural work in the Fishing Quarter Gallery, which deals with the tension between combined materials, fragility, balance/imbalance and the temporal: small scale mixed media sculptures, artists books and a large suspended paper installation. Collaborating with textile artist Dagmara Rudkin, is an exciting opportunity for her to find new visual possibilities on unfamiliar aspects in end of life provision and transience

About Dagmara Rudkin

www.dagmararudkin.com

Insta: dagmara.rudkin

Based in Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, Dagmara Rudkin is a Polish-British fine artist with an MA in Sequential Design and Illustration and a passion for storytelling through textiles and installations. For the last 20 years, she has produced personal and collaborative projects in Fine Art and performance.

Now, she specialises in shroud making—an art form that honours rites of passage rituals and commemorates the sacred. She shares her practice through teaching as an artist educator at Hastings Contemporary, Phoenix Art Space, and as an Associate Lecturer at Brighton MET.

The Transient Shelters exhibition is an opportunity for her to show why making or commissioning a shroud for yourself or your loved one can be life-affirming and how choosing a shroud made from salvaged textiles over a traditional coffin can be easier on our planet.

As a part of Dying Matters Week and the Open Studios Weekend, Dagmara Rudkin will show a selection of bespoke shrouds for green and traditional funerals. Visit Dagmara in her studio, 3S6 at Phoenix Art Space and find out why making a shroud for yourself or your loved one can help with processing grief or the anticipation of death and how choosing a shroud made from salvaged textiles over a traditional coffin can be easier on our planet.

19/05/ Phoenix Arts Space. Please use this link to book a place.

Explore themes of identity, memory, mythology, rituals, subconsciousness, life celebrations or loss. Work in silence or join into a conversation or both.

Stitch, draw, print, deconstruct, embellish, transform and sabotage fabrics, found objects and recycled materials into 2D or 3D work that is playful, inventive, poetic.

Transform your salvaged family heirloom textiles and loved but longer needed objects into semi-abstract sculptures, mythical 3D characters, memory boxes or mixed media wall hanging.

Exploit the narrative potential and emotional value of things you cannot bear to throw away and use them instead to create a work of beauty, comfort or magic. We will use a wide range of inspirations from the sculptures of Louise Bourgeoise, Meret Oppenheim and Joseph Cornell boxes to medieval reliquaries, Guatemalan worry dolls and shamanic masks.

All basic materials and tools provided. Also tea and biscuits. Maximum 8 people in a group. All levels welcome.

Costs: £50

Days: 1 Sunday

Dates: 19/05/2024

Times: 11:30 – 16.30

Location: Brighton, BN2 9NB , Phoenix Art Space, White Room

Textile and Mixed Media Sculpture – 2 consecutive Sundays workshop.

9/06 and 16/06 / Phoenix Arts Space.

Please use this link to find out more and to book a place.

Costs: £130

Days: 2 Sundays

Dates: 9/06 and 16/06

Times: 11:30 – 17.00

Location: Brighton, BN2 9NB , Phoenix Art Space, Red Room

7/07 Textiles Sundays, Phoenix Arts Space. Link to booking coming soon.

Past Workshops

Ink & Mixed Media Haiku Concertina Books

Course Details:

In these three playful and relaxed sessions, you will respond to micro-poems and explore ink drawing, collage and mono printing techniques to create figurative or semi abstract imagery. You will then combine your artwork with words into a one-off artist’s book: a poetic contemplation of transient landscapes.

Session 1: You will explore traditional and experimental ink drawing and mixed media techniques to develop imagery inspired by landscapes and animals.

Session 2: You will learn how to use six different simple printmaking techniques in response to haiku poems.

Session 3: You will use collage and mixed media techniques and combine images created earlier with haiku words into a series of concertina books.

This course is suitable for all levels including beginners.

Develop Your Own Project

Course Details

• 19 February – 25 March 2024
• 6 Monday mornings, 10:00 – 13:00
• Red Room, Phoenix Art Space
• 6 Sessions
• 10 Maximum Attendees

This course is designed to help you to unleash the potential of a project you may be carrying in you but don’t quite know how to translate into a tangible outcome. It is also aimed at those craving creative time but needing an informal structure to identify their areas of interest and an opportunity to enhance their practical art skills. This course is also for anyone interested in building an art portfolio or wanting to develop their own visual language and art practice.

It is suitable for all levels and interests areas including drawing, painting, collage, character and costume design, illustration, mixed media 2D and 3D work.

Throughout the six lighthearted but stimulating sessions you will have an opportunity to:

• Learn how to respond to fine art and design briefs
• Use mind maps and mood boards to generate ideas
• Establish your own themes and areas of interest
• Create design sheets, mock ups, prototypes and experimental swatches
• Create a final outcome such as a painting, mixed media work, a set of illustrations or designs, or a sculpture

Designed and facilitated by Phoenix artist and PT 19+ Art and Design Foundation Leader, MET College, Dagmara Rudkin.

This course is suitable for all levels including beginners.

Hastings Contemporary:

Hastings Contemporary – Hastings Contemporary

INTRODUCTION TO ART: PRINTMAKING – Hastings Contemporary

INTRODUCTION TO ART: 3D – Hastings Contemporary

Hastings Contemporary

Inspiration and Interpretation – Hastings Contemporary

Figure in Landscape – Hastings Contemporary

Phoenix Art Space

Design and Make a 3D Character – Phoenix Art Space (phoenixbrighton.org)

There are ongoing links in my work between a female body, nature, animals , mythology, folklore and domestic spaces occupied by women and where stories are told. This is one of my relatively recent pieces: Pegasus. The stripped lampshade cover made me think of a caparison and when I added a wing, it just became a flying horse. With the one-breasted corset-like armature of a deconstructed lampshade it can also be seen as an Amazonian warrior. Or maybe it is a winged female Centaur?

I am delighted to participate in this vibrant and eclectic exhibition set up by Cultivate Art Gallery. 37 painters, mixed media and 3D artists showing nearly 200 pieces of art.

Cultivate presents Saturation – An on-line art exhibition… | THE ORGAN (organthing.com)

Another wonderful creation from Wendy Pye and Maria Jastrzebska with music by Peter Copley and read by Rita Suszek and supported with funds of ACE. With my drawings of crows and doves. Here is an interview with Wendy on making of this and other videopoems and here is a short interview with me about how I approached the character of the Crow in the Snow Q Project.

I am delighted and honoured to have my work feature in the film poem Lullaby. Created by Wendy Pye, with words by Maria Jastrzebska and music by Peter Copley. Read By Rita Suszek.

The film co-incides with poet Maria Jastrzebska and Mark Hewitt’s new Snow Q Live literature performances.

Details of performances and ticket details:
https://snowqproject.wordpress.com/snow-q-live-lit-event-2…/

Throughout December the Phoenix Art Space Window Gallery is displaying our responses to haikus. Here is mine: a three-part installation made out of lampshades that represent transitions between seasons and transitions in women’s body. There are many other responses created by Phoenix-based artist in the exhibition which will continue till the 5th of January 2020.

HAIKU 2019