9 sessions from Mon 29 Apr 2024 [Show]
Jazmin van Breda: Experimenting Sculpturally through Clay
We are delighted to welcome artist Jazmin van Breda who planned a series of workshops over the course of six weeks from the 3rd June to the 8th of July.
The workshops will focus on freedom of expression – considering alternative frameworks for living and new ways of seeing. Experimenting sculpturally through the medium of clay.
Workshop 1:
Introduction to decorative art and the work of the Bloomsbury artists within Charleston Farmhouse.
Drawing exercise. Responding to a series of objects of everyday use, considering how to change/alter their purpose and function.
Experimental making from the drawings into plasticine maquettes.
Workshop 2:
Focusing on Picasso’s ceramics, and the work of contemporary ceramic sculptor Betty Woodman.
Looking at Picasso’s pots/plates and considering the merging of art/sculpture and function.
Experimenting with collage as a response.
Workshop 3:
Working from the collages of the previous weeks to make everyday objects out of clay - to later use as ‘canvases’ to paint on.
Workshop 4:
Painting the previous week’s sculptures, using the objects as the ‘canvas’.
Workshop 5:
Expanding out of the home into the architecture of our cities, considering how buildings are decorated.
Looking at the hidden art of cities. Focussing on Portuguese tiles in the city of Lisbon
Asking the question – how might we decorate our cities?
Workshop 6:
Painting/decorating the tiles from the previous session.
**
Jazmin van Breda (b.2001, Sussex) lives and works in London. Graduating from Central Saint Martins with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, she works sculpturally specializing in woodwork and ceramics.Jazmin’s sculptural work is an exploration into the displacement of objects within architectural space and considers how the environment influences perception and response. The objects she makes are domestically familiar but distorted to remove their functionality and represent their altered form, purpose, and status within the public sphere. Inspired by architecture and furniture and the human relationship between the two, she captures movement patterns symbolic of how audiences respond to artwork within different spaces and shapes her work to symbolize human behavior and preoccupations. ‘I consider the degree to which audiences are guided by the spaces around them and how we are inherently directed by the architecture we inhabit.’ Her work attempts to awaken memories of domestic familiarity and is inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s vision of ‘the daydreamer’ and a space to daydream: ‘The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ (Bachelard, G.,1958). Jazmin’s sculptures create a space that positions itself between the private and the public, highlighting the impact of public exposure and environmental influences on perception and interpretation. Connecting the audience to her work through emotional engagement, evoked by memory and personal daydreams, is at the heart of her practice.
No tickets are currently available to book.