The Feminist School of Painting

Art Workshops at BALTIC Gateshead

FREE, Booking essential

BALTIC presents Ad Minoliti’s ongoing project The Feminist School of Painting, as part of their solo show Biosfera Peluche / Biosphere Plush.

The gallery space will be transformed for art workshops for all ages and experience levels. The Feminist School of Painting seeks to critically reimagine the structure of the ‘art school’ and reconsider traditional painting genres from a feminist, intersectional, intergenerational and queer perspective, inclusive of trans-feminism and all those who identify as women.

At BALTIC, the school will specifically explore the genre of landscape painting, approached in an expanded sense – beyond the white male hetero-normative gaze – from urban design to outer space landscapes, digital landscapes or as the construction of a human paradigm.

The classes will be run in partnership with a multidisciplinary group of artists, academics, writers, and activists. By incorporating collaborators from diverse backgrounds, the classes playfully promote accessibility, creativity and curiosity over any art-specific expertise. See the full schedule below.

Schedule

Saturday 16 April 13.00-15.00

Session 14 | Voicing Animacy with Sabina Sallis and Jim Lloyd

This session will broadly consider how through art practice, we can voice and animate language to communicate living, animate worlds. Artists Sabina Sallis and Jim Lloyd will present elements of their art practices exploring multispecies worlds that are alive with active participation, particularly discussing approaches that use language in a creative and playful way. Sabina and Jim will then guide participants through the creative activity of making a voice visible via actions of writing, drawing and painting.

Saturday 23 April13.00-15.00

Session 15 | Slow Return Humus Sound Activation with Sabina Sallis and Joe Sallis

This is the second of three workshops with Sabina Sallis, who will first lead a talk with Joe Salis considering humus - a nutrient-rich organic material that forms in soil when natural matter decays - in both its material role and as a metaphorical expression of creative production. After the talk you will be guided through a practical creative activity, making a ‘Slow Return Humus Sound Activation Device’ inspired by experimental musical instruments.

Saturday 30 April 13.00-15.00

Session 16 | Speculative Painting and Drawing En Plein Air with Laura Harrington and Sage Brice

In this session you will explore Sage Brice’s idea of ‘drawing in the fluid tense’, an experimental technique that seeks to highlight the changeability of a landscape by considering its many potential dimensions in time and space - pushing at the boundaries of realism and speculation. This will be followed by a practical outdoor activity in which we will ask what it is that 'matters' about working in the field. Participants will be invited to use found materials to explore imagined pasts and futures while working in situ at riverside locations.

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Tickets

These tickets are to participate in The Feminist School of Painting art workshops at BALTIC, Gateshead. Tickets for The Feminist School of Painting art workshops are free, and all art materials will be provided. Booking is essential to reserve your space.

There is the option to make a donation of £3* which will support BALTIC's free exhibitions and activities, making contemporary art available to all.