Portrait Sculpture with Hazel Reeves

Mon Aug 19 2024 at 11:30 am to Fri Aug 23 2024 at 05:30 pm UTC+01:00

Phoenix Art Space | Brighton

Phoenix Art Space
Publisher/HostPhoenix Art Space
Portrait Sculpture with Hazel Reeves
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Learn how to sculpt a portrait in clay
About this Event

Get ready to become hooked. Sculpting a portrait in clay is a very rewarding experience. This course will explore how to observe heads – how to see their differences and similarities, and in turn learn how to translate this understanding into a sculpture which captures a likeness of the sitter. On the first day we will sculpt rapidly an under-life-size head of the sitter, without measuring. During the next four days we will more systematically build a life-sized clay portrait of our sitter on an armature/bust-peg. This concentrated modelling will be interspersed with fun exercises - with clay and without - to help train up the eye and hands. On the final morning there is the option to hollow-out the head in preparation for firing.

This course will be taught in a way suitable for those with experience of sculpting in clay and those new to it.

Most materials are included in the cost of the course including clay for a life-size portrait. A wooden armature (sometimes called a ‘bust peg’) will be provided. This is yours to keep.

Please bring an apron/bib and an A4 sketchpad and drawing implement (pencil, pen etc). If you have any of the following, bring them. But don’t worry if not as there will be some to share:

  • Calipers for measuring
  • Metal ruler
  • Retractable metal measure
  • Wooden and/or metal modeling tools (including hollowing-out tools)
  • Wire (or “cheese”) cutter
  • Water spray bottle
  • Barbecue sticks
  • Cocktail sticks
  • Masking tape
  • Bin liners (x2)
  • Hand-held mirror
  • Old newspaper

If you are hollowing-out on the last day it would be helpful to bring an old pillow, a clean jam jar, fork and knife.

Firing is not included, however, advice on how to prepare the piece for firing and where to get the piece fired (at a kiln/pottery) will be shared during the course. You can choose to hollow-out on the final day.


Costs: £400

Days: Monday - Friday

Times: 11:30 - 17:30

Dates: Monday 19 to Friday 23 August

Location: White Room

Maximum: 8


Hazel Reeves has a passion for telling stories in bronze of struggles for social justice and redressing the lack of women represented, one statue at a time. Hazel is perhaps best known for her bronze public commissions such as Sir Nigel Gresley at King’s Cross Station, the women biscuit factory workers – the Cracker Packers – in Carlisle, Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy in Congleton and suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester, winner of the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture 2021.

Hazel is an elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and a member of the Society of Women Artists (SWA). Hazel also loves to teach portrait sculpture.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Phoenix Art Space, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, United Kingdom

Tickets

GBP 400.00

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