WHERE WILL 2018 TAKE YOU? PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMME classes | exhibitions | forum
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WELCOME WELCOME TO NORTH LANDS CREATIVE 2018 PROGRAMME.
Welcome to North Lands Creative 2018 programme. Located in the wild and dramatic landscape of Caithness on the North East Coast of Scotland, North Lands Creative is one of the world’s most prestigious centres for the study and development of glass as an artform, providing excellent facilities, opportunities and inspiration to artists working with glass from all over the world. Our programme of Visiting Artists and Specialised Workshops, Talks, Events and Temporary Exhibitions are presented regularly and represent a cross section of contemporary UK and international arts practice. The Quatre Bras gallery is open five days a week and admission is free. The extensive programme invites further engagement with the work that takes place in the buildings, and is aimed at anyone interested in developing their knowledge of glass. For our Workshop Programme we are delighted to be able to offer a courtesy bus to Lybster from Inverness. Information about the bus, upcoming opportunities, scholarships and booking links can be found on our website: www.northlandscreative.co.uk
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VISITING ARTISTS WORKSHOPS SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: ÂŁ1275 | 8 - 16 AUGUST
Silvia Levenson will lead participants in developing their own language by using glass as narrative medium. The basic glass working technique will be lost wax and open face kiln-forming. The aim of this workshop is shifting boundaries in order to think new works and installations inspired by the sense of place and identity.
HOT PRINTING: FRIT DE VERRE: ÂŁ1275 27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER
In this 10 day masterclass, Anne Petters will introduce a specific glass frit technique, which translates the idea of intaglio printing into a sculptural kiln-forming process. In her work Anne Petters uses glass and other materials, including natural phenomena, in a poetic and metaphoric way.
SPECIALISED WORKSHOPS
Specialised workshops are designed to give a better understanding of process. No previous experience required.
NARRATIVE SCULPTURE: THROUGH PRINTMAKING AND PATE DE VERRE: £720 | 7 - 12 MAY Karen Akester offers an introduction to open mold casting and pate de verre; a fantastic process which allows vibrant and precise colour application. Taking inspiration from folktales, poetry and storytelling, you will create your own narrative structures.
Through demonstrations, drawing, printmaking and discussion we will explore colour and glass paste application, translating your prints and drawings into small wax models. From these we will make refractory mold’s which we paint and pack with glass powders and frits. The fired glass pieces will be cold worked and assembled to create your finished sculptures. Your prints will be stitched and bound to create your accompanying ‘storybook’.
ANATOMY AND GLASS: £720 | 28 MAY - 1 JUNE
Alan Horsley will be leading a class dedicated to the development of figurative sculpture in cast glass following the process from creation through to cast object. The first part of the course will be spent working with a life model sculpting directly from life in clay and wax. These 3 dimensional drawings will then be taken into the mold shop and the techniques for making complex glass casting molds explored and explained the casts will then be fired and cast in glass.
SPECIALISED WORKSHOPS
THE PERFECT VESSEL: £930 | 1 - 7 JULY
Form: “…by which shape is determined, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed, giving it individuality and a distinctive character”. The aim of this 7-day class is to achieve a “sublime form”. The process is to discard the superfluous and to identify and develop a personal concept. The result will be a form that is the simple expression of a complex thought and students will be encouraged to adopt a sculptural approach to their work – a search for form and push their glass in a new direction rather than master a technique. In order to develop your aesthetic and conceptual perspective, while negotiating the technical challenges of deepslumping into 3-step ceramic molds, we will begin with an introductory presentation given by Karl, early on the first morning of class. Students will challenge themselves further by designing a piece of work made of only two colours of reactive opalescent Bullseye sheet glass, with mark-making realised through the application of accessory glasses such as frits, powders, confetti and stringers.
Discussions, power point presentations by all, and technical talks will encourage and enable students to expand their ideas once outside the classroom. Students are requested to bring along their own hand-tools if possible, note-pad and pen, a camera and a piece of work which best illustrates their style. The participants on this course will need to have a level of experience which will allow them to get the most out of the course. If you feel comfortable cutting and handling glass and want to use this class to expand your knowledge, please apply. After teaching his workshop Karl will continue on at North Lands Creative for two weeks working on a personal development residency. Karl will be using this time to research and create a body of work that is influenced by the landscape and people of Caithness in general and the village of Lybster in particular. An area he has come to feel part of during his long and ongoing connection with North Lands.
SPECIALISED WORKSHOPS
SURFACE, TEXTURE & MARK MAKING: ÂŁ720 17 - 21 SEPTEMBER
Marina Hanser will lead a class dedicated to exploring non-traditional methods of mark making in kiln-formed glass to help each artist find their individual voice. The 5-day workshop will introduce a variety of techniques including kiln-forming, kiln-casting, pate de verre and cold working as well as ways to use them to create personal marks, textures and surface finishes. We will use clay, polystyrene, chicken wire, plaster, cloth, paper, wax, sand, found objects and other yet to be discovered materials to explore mark-making techniques directly in glass and in molds. The class will introduce cold working techniques such as sawing, carving, engraving, grinding and other surface finishes. In order to explore transparency, translucency and opacity we will use the full range of glass products available including billets, sheet glass, frit, powders and glass paint. Expect to expand both on your technical and conceptual skills through daily demonstrations, discussions and presentations.
SPECIALISED WORKSHOPS IN FROM THE COLD: £720 | 24 - 28 SEPTEMBER
Anthony Scala will be returning to North Lands to teach his popular 5 day technical class looking at the possibilities achievable when using cold working techniques within sculptural glass. The class will investigate form, surface finish, decoration and the interplay of light, reflection and refraction within the glass object. An introduction to the types of adhesives used for different methods of construction will also be discussed, as well as techniques for assembling components into a finished piece of work.
INTERMEDIATE FLAME WORKING: £360 9 - 11 OCTOBER
Continue expanding your flame working skills during this intermediate flame working workshop led by Ian Pearson. Expect to develop the techniques learned in the introduction to flame working class as well as new, more advanced techniques. This class is open to those who have completed the introduction to flame work class and also those who are already experienced at the torch.
ANNUAL FORUM 2018
Curated by Professor Michael Rogers
NORTH LANDS CREATIVE PRESENT GLASS NEXUS ANNUAL FORUM 2018: 4 – 5 AUGUST Alastair Pilkington Studio, Lybster
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION (UNTIL 31 MARCH) : £212.50 REGULAR REGISTRATION FULL : £250/ STUDENT £190 Whether you’re an individual artist or managing a studio, an arts freelancer or working in a funded arts organisation, this year’s forum is about your concerns and our community. It’s time for hard truths, some imaginative thinking but most of all, about creating a platform, where despite and because of our varied interests and experiences, we can come together. The ‘Glass Nexus’ Forum will bring together a range of experts in the field of glass for two days of public thinking and private incitement to explore the hard questions we’ve been asking and the challenges we’re facing will be answered with some realistic, achievable and visionary possibilities. Bright minds, stories to inspire, delight, provoke and rally you will come from far flung cities and our own back yards. Be ready to interrogate, ignite and bring these possibilities to life. Whether you’re a maker or a shaker, your voice and answers are needed to shape the way ahead. Special Discounts to CGS and SGS members, to find out more information on the forum programme please visit the website or email info@northlandscreative.co.uk
COLLECT 2018: 6 APRIL – 10 AUGUST
Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Admission: Free North Lands Creative is pleased to present the recent work shown at Collect 2018 at our Lybster Quatre Bras Gallery. This exhibition shows the work of artists Emma Baker, Alan Horsley, Silvia Levenson and Anne Petters and has been conceived to celebrate the artists’ personal approach to glass and how it is integrated into their practice in terms of the conceptual and technical demands of the medium.
NORTH LANDS CREATIVE, QUATRE BRAS, LYBSTER, CAITHNESS, KW3 6BN, SCOTLAND T: +44 (0) 1593 721229 | E: INFO@NORTHLANDSCREATIVE.CO.UK Scottish Charity Number: SCO23805