July 27 – 28, 2022, 10 am – 12:30 pm
Many thanks to the artist Emily Hunt for her workshop introducing our participants to Creative Strategies – String Theory: Thread as a drawing tool & How we collect ideas during the basic course within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“DAY 1: Creative Strategies – String Theory: Thread as a drawing tool
The concept of a spiral or a continuous thread will be the starting point for a series of creative strategies. The aim is to begin thinking about drawing in three-dimensional space. A short lecture at the beginning of the course will bring together three interconnected concepts: 17th century calligraphy, string art/cat’s cradles and knot theory.
The work of master scrollwork and calligrapher Baudoin van Horicke will be discussed in relation with the contemporary artists whose practices use the continuous scroll or calligraphic ornament as a visual language. A warm-up exercise will entail not lifting the pencil while making a portrait. The second exercise will introduce the Spirograph-like esoteric work of Emma Kunz and Louise Despont in relation to mathematical shapes containing personality and meaning. In the first day of the course we will begin to experiment with the material of plaster. This exercise allows a drawing of a knot to “harden” using plaster, and therefore become a sculpture.
DAY 2: Creative Strategies – How we collect ideas
The second day of the course will open with a short lecture discussing how artists string theories together. The presentation will explain how artists collect ideas to form exhibitions, drawing from sources such as philosophy, popular culture, fiction, music or history. We will look at the work of contemporary artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, Jim Shaw, Mark Dion, Grayson Perry, Helen Marten and Candice Lin. We will continue to delve into the material of plaster as a foundation for sculpture experimentations. Alongside the lecture there will be a series of more practical demonstrations on how to manipulate plaster. We will paint and colour a small sculpture that brings together three compelling ideas and discuss the results within the class.” (Text by courtesy of Emily Hunt)
Emily Hunt (b. 1981) lives and works in Berlin since 2017. Hunt has been running Big Ego Books since 2015. She was the co-Dictator of DUKE Magazine, an artist magazine focusing on Australian artists and thrift culture between 2005-2009. She has shown extensively in Australia since 2012, including at the Museum for Contemporary Art Sydney, First Draft, Casula Powerhouse, UTS Gallery, Artspace, Bundanon Trust, UQ Art Museum, KNULP and The Commercial gallery.Her work is held in collections that include The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (CCWA), Artbank, and Manly Art Gallery. She was awarded Marten Bequest Scholarship for Painting (2015), and Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant (2017), with two grants from Australia Council for the Arts (2014 & 2019). Her work has recently been shown at the Arp Museum Remagen, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Zitadelle Spandau (ZAK) and Sim Smith Gallery, London. In 2020 Hunt was selected as a participant in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt. In 2021, Hunt’s first solo exhibition in Berlin opened at Galerie Wedding.
More information on the Emily Hunt Website.
