Expanding Your Creative Practice

Working with others outside of your artistic peers can add a dynamic exchange to your practice. Are you keen to develop your art practice to be socially engaged or co-curated with schools, young people, elders, community groups and beyond? Are you already working as an artist and educator but looking for the chance to reflect on how this can be more closely aligned to your own practice? Join visual artist and educator Vanessa Rolf as she gives you practical tools to incorporate creative approaches when working with others.

What you will get out of the session:

• You will reflect on the processes, approaches and concerns you address in your practice and how these could connect with others.

• You will think about the role of an artist in a social context and explore what difference you are trying to make

• You will explore practical and ethical considerations when planning a project working with others. You will question: How to invite people to take part? What do you bring? What do you want people to leave with?

Catering, teas and coffees will be provided

Artist Bio:

Through seeking, digging, mapping, collating and discarding visual artist Vanessa Rolf attempts to make logic of her chaotic interior world. She traces, cuts and stitches paper and cloth to embed codified shapes that unearth stories. The materials of unpicked and reworked cloth and wool felt speak a familiar tactile language.

Vanessa Rolf's work has been showcased in exhibitions, is part of national collections and has been created in response to commissions. She studied at the Royal College of Art 2002-2004, where she became an honorary fellow in 2017. She is an exhibiting member of artist cooperative The 62 Group and organises ‘Studio without walls’, an ‘a space’ funded collective of artists based in or around Winchester, exploring ways to grow supportive communities not bound by institutions. Alongside her art practice, for 20 years Vanessa has been working in a range of settings with people of all ages to make as a collective act of enquiry, agency and community building. She currently works with BA and MA level students at Winchester School of Art, Chichester University, Southampton Solent and University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.

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Gall gweithio gydag eraill y tu hwnt i'ch cyfoedion artistig ychwanegu newid deinamig i’ch ymarfer. Ydych chi’n awyddus i ddatblygu eich ymarfer celf i ymgysylltu’n gymdeithasol ag ysgolion, pobl ifanc, pobl hŷn, grwpiau cymunedol a thu hwnt neu gael eu curadu ar y cyd â nhw? Ydych chi eisoes yn gweithio fel artist ac addysgwr ond yn chwilio am gyfle i fyfyrio ar sut y gellir cysoni hyn yn agosach â’ch ymarfer eich hun? Ymunwch â'r artist gweledol a'r addysgwr Vanessa Rolf wrth iddi roi’r arfau ymarferol i chi ymgorffori dulliau creadigol wrth weithio gydag eraill.

Yr hyn y bydd y sesiwn hon yn ei gynnig i chi:

• Byddwch yn myfyrio ar y prosesau, y dulliau a'r pryderon rydych yn mynd i'r afael â nhw yn eich ymarfer a sut y gallai'r rhain gysylltu ag eraill.

• Byddwch yn meddwl am rôl artist mewn cyd-destun cymdeithasol ac yn ystyried y gwahaniaeth rydych chi’n ceisio ei wneud.

• Byddwch yn edrych ar ystyriaethau ymarferol a moesegol wrth gynllunio prosiect gan weithio gydag eraill. Byddwch yn gofyn y cwestiynau canlynol: Sut i wahodd pobl i gymryd rhan? Beth ydych chi’n ei gynnig? Beth hoffech chi i bobl ei gael o hyn?

Image Credit:

Vanessa Rolf

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Cardiff, United Kingdom