Create an original or altered map using personal responses to place, space and memory.
This two-day workshop will encourage students to explore artists’ use of maps as a source of visual inspiration and as a way to express their ideas about a geographical place, identity, history or memory. Over the course of the weekend, we’ll take a couple of trips outdoors to gather personal responses to our environment which we can then expand on back in the studio.
Both days will begin with a slideshow and discussion of maps as art, covering themes such as personal histories, places, memory, politics, territories and identities. We’ll experiment with a variety of ways of altering maps using paint, collage and stitching, and you’ll be encouraged to develop your own map-based artistic ideas.
Taking inspiration from artists including Grayson Perry and Mona Hatoum, you’ll work on a series of quick studies before moving on to create one small resolved work, using map-making ideas, motifs or physical forms.