Young Artists Summer Holiday | Stage and Sets: Immersive Spaces (10 - 14 years)

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Stage and Sets: Immersive Spaces

During this 5 day course, students will discover how artists throughout time have created different spaces for the viewer to explore. From the worlds in paintings of The National Gallery, to the  artists and set designers of today, we will take inspiration from two- and three-dimensional environments and build an immersive environment to set the stage.

Students will draw from observation and imagination throughout the week as we investigate the still life in the studio, the outdoors, dreams, and memories.  We will work individually and collaboratively to create exciting universes which explore space, scale, tone, and colour through drawing techniques, collage, and sculpture.

To begin, we will gather information and learn by borrowing from artists such as, David Hockney, Lubaina Himid, Richard Diebenkorn, Georges Seurat, and Maja Ruznic. Students will gather ideas as we observe landscape and theatre at the gallery or museum. Young artists will bring their knowledge and skills back to the studio where we will build on our understanding and discover how we can create drawings we feel we could jump right in to.

Students will then combine the environment with its inhabitant. By creating costume and masks, and drawing from storytelling and the clothed body, how do we combine figures with scenery?

This course will cover a wide range of techniques, mediums and ways of working. We will be experimental and play with ideas whilst having fun and learning from one another!

This course is for you if you are interested in:

  • Landscapes.
  • Drawing the figure.
  • Set design.
  • Theatre.
  • Costume and Mask creation.

Students will:

  • Have the opportunity to  working freely both independently and as a group.
  • Explore and gain understanding of how to create a successful and immersive environment.
  • Explore and consider tone/texture and understand how these give the drawing depth and perspective.
  • Gain confidence drawing large scale and create  collaborative/collages and murals.

To attend this course students must have a good level of spoken English.

Please note we do not take group bookings for our courses.

This course may include at out of house trip in zones 1 or 2. A full schedule will be provided in advance.