Drawing as Expanded Practice - Evening Course - 8 weeks

Day: Wednesdays

Dates: 8 October 2025 – 3 December 2025

1 x week break for Half Term – Wednesday 29 October

Time: 18:00 – 20:00

Level: Beginners (18+)

Tutor: Ana Vicente

Location: 124 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4DJ

Cost: £247 / Early Bird rate: £222

COURSE OVERVIEW

In this eight-week evening course, we will take drawing in its rawest sense and explore ways to connect with it to understand, record and reframe being in the world. Together we will take drawing as a process and not as a fixed outcome, and expand it in the direction of movement, sculpture, writing and performance. We will focus on the importance of creative experimentation as we engage with a range of materials, sites, processes and ideas. We will explore the possibilities of drawing as a language, as a way of thinking and as a way of imagining a world.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will be structured by posing a series of propositions devised to ignite your curiosity for exploration and for thinking through making. The course aims to create a space where you can develop your own definitions of what drawing means to you, free from expectation, judgement, or conceptually accepted norms. We will use methods and materials that may not be immediately associated with drawing in its most traditional sense. Some of our methods will include walking, asemic writing, sensorial mark-making, choreographic scores and others. You will work individually as well as collaboratively.

At the end of the course, you will have explored a set of approaches that you can use in your own practice. Such approaches will help develop your confidence in employing creative ways of understanding, recording, and reframing the world, underpinned by an expanded drawing practice that is personally meaningful to you.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Looking at a range of examples of drawing as expanded practice, discussions, themed propositions and associated guided ‘exercises’, lots of playfulness, experimentation with materials, scale and movement, working with embodied and somatic methods, working with process-based approaches not always resulting in a finished outcome, working collectively and exploring own individual interests independently.

This course will not teach participants how to draw in the conventional sense (i.e., observational and representational skills). A good dose of curiosity to experiment will be required, as well as some freedom from expecting tangible and finished outcomes.

No formal experience of art or drawing is necessary; however, openness and confidence to play with materials and ideas, both individually and as part of a group, are essential. This course will be useful for anyone interested in exploring/ reigniting their creative practice; therefore, it is also suitable for (but not restricted to) artists, designers, architects, filmmakers, dancers, writers and performers.

What’s included: The course will include all materials and tools specific to the different weekly activities.

What to bring: You are advised to bring a sketchbook/ notebook, pens, pencils, scissors and any other mark-making materials of your choice. A camera for taking photographs and/or video is also advisable (i.e., your own mobile phone), but not essential. You may be asked to source your own objects to bring for specific sessions.

10% discount available for City & Guilds of London Art School undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation students and alumni, and staff. Contact eveningcourses@cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk to receive the discount code.

Participants must be aged over 18.

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