ANSELM KIEFER: Memory Landscapes

ANSELM KIEFER: Memory Landscapes

✏️ Live Online Class: Saturday 25th October 2025 2pm BST

🍿 + 14 Days Recording Access

👋 Taught by Karolina Głusiec and hosted by Frances Stanfield

💸 Pay What You Can

💻 Please book via eventbrite on a browser, not the Eventbrite app. Email us if you need help.

In this class we will be creating structural artworks that combine drawing, painting, collage, sgraffito, and encaustic techniques, all designed to build richly textured layers using simple materials found at home.

Anselm Kiefer’s monumental work has been exhibited all over the world, including the long-touring Finnegans Wake exhibition, first launched at the White Cube in London.

Kiefer also works on a smaller scale, producing drawings and prints. Central to his practice is the act of collecting, both material and immaterial: memories of people, landscapes, and objects. You will see how the gathering of materials and memories can shape a surface into a painting.

Kiefer has long been an advocate for things that have been seen but then suppressed or erased. His works contain many layers, where even the removed layers remain an essential and active part of the artwork. His deep respect for collective and personal histories, and the act of creating them, has become a distinctive and vital element of his paintings.

Suggested Materials

We suggest the materials below but you can join with anything you have. You can always invest / search for new materials after the class and draw along again with the recording access.

• Thick paper or cardboard – do you have anything that has been laying around at home? It may be a perfect surface - try to reuse something :)
• Oil pastels, chalk, charcoal, and other “messy” drawing materials
• Ink
• Paints of various kinds and paintbrushes
• Scissors and glue
• Wax crayons, a candle, and a lighter or matches (for making “encaustic”)
• Toothpicks or other sharp tools for scratching into drawings
• Packing paper (like the kind used for vegetables in shops)
• Various paper you find interesting - it can be old notes or drawings
• Magazines for cutting out images
• Small dishes for water
• Protective paper or covering for your table

This class is suitable for all levels! Practicing artists and complete beginnners a-like.

Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class

Tickets:

We suggest an amount of £20. However, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we may continue to offer our sessions on this basis whilst also giving our tutors a sustainable wage.

There is also a ticket option to "Pay It Forward" to support us and our students! We offer classes for free to those who can't afford the minimum amount (If this is you please email us to join for free). This continues to ensure our classes are available to everyone!

Once booked:

You will receive a confirmation email and be able to access information on how to join the event via your eventbrite "Online Event Page" You can access this by signing into eventbrite or creating an account using the email address that you booked with.

In the Class:

You can't be seen or heard in our classes, your audio and video are automatically turned off and there's no way these can be turned on. You can talk to us and others in the class in the chat box!

We love to see your drawings or anything else our classes inspire! You can share them with us by tagging us on instagram (@londondrawinggroup) or emailing us if you don't have socials.

About the Tutor:

Karolina Glusiec-A multidisciplinary artist based in Deptford, south-east London, UK whose practice emerges from drawing and animation branching out into mixed media, structural and site specific objects and artworks. She is also a teacher and runs dept.con.temporary art gallery together with Jamie Temple from their flat in London. She won Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2012.

ARE YOU TRYING TO BOOK VIA THE EVENTBRITE PHONE APP?!

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hello@londondrawinggroup.com

And that's it!

We're really looking forward to you joining us.

Love,

LDG

Image by Karolina Głusiec