ARTS WORKSHOPS
Arts-related workshops facilitated by practising artists, introducing aspects of contemporary, creative investigation
Bespoke 1-2-1 Workshops : with Alice Sheppard Fidler
Your time to question, unpick and develop your practice in a reflective and supportive environment at The Hide Artist Retreat
Friday 30th September 2022 : Alice Sheppard Fidler
A day performing alternative drawing
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
"I prefer to see with closed eyes." Josef Albers
There is no set outcome for the one day workshop on drawing.
We will be responding to light, sound, movement, darkness and touch in a playful and experimental approach to mark making.… a whole body experience working standing, walking sitting, lying…
Sheppard Fidler works across installation, sculpture and performance. Her conceptual art practice utilises and transforms found and recycled materials and spaces to navigate often fragile and imperceptible boundaries between place, human experience and states of being. Her site-specific approach often operates outside of the gallery context, responding to the available, universal, on-hand resources that each new project offers.
Sunday 16th October 2022 : Ann-Margreth Bohl
A day of mindful engagement with gravity
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
But what is the point of soft without hard or weight without lightness’ - Isamu Noguchi
On this day course, you are invited to cut, rip, rub, chip, hang, burry and tangle, playing with inherent material qualities of stone and paper.
Based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, Ann-Margreth works in stone, metal, sound and beeswax.
She’s interested in light, shadow and the passing of time. Her work includes monumental sculptures which are time pieces: they cast a complex and changing series of shadows. Like modern ‘Stonehenges’, they’re precisely aligned with the sun as it moves across the sky.
PAST EVENTS
: Rebecca Stapleford
A day exploring origin stories using Somatic techniques
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
In this workshop we will be moving through our linages; reclaiming the tools of song and dance to activate memories and illustrate stories. Using the body, rhythm and sound we will unpick our sense of belonging and discover our contemporary ceremonies.
You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Stapleford’s practice explores the physicality of storytelling and body memories. Occupying spaces outside of art venues, places of worship, empty buildings and public spaces, she examines subtle gestures and audible experiences. Her work questions gender roles, the everyday and the overlooked.
She is the former Live Words and Music curator, Whitechapel Gallery. Works include: Crowning and Drive Thru Wet Nurse, Metamorphosis 2017, In-Between Two Sounds, Walthamstow Quaker Meeting House, 2010. Collaborations include Other Places with James Porter Site Festival 2016, Triad and Body Chandelier with choreographer Marguerite Caruanagalizia, Place Theater London 2008.
: Alice Sheppard Fidler
Re-seeing the normal, a day of abstract photography
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
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Sheppard Fidler works across installation, sculpture and performance. Her conceptual art practice utilises and transforms found and recycled materials and spaces to navigate often fragile and imperceptible boundaries between place, human experience and states of being. Her site-specific approach often operates outside of the gallery context, responding to the available, universal, on-hand resources that each new project offers.
: Rebecca Stapleford
A day exploring origin stories using Somatic techniques
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
In this workshop we will be moving through our linages; reclaiming the tools of song and dance to activate memories and illustrate stories. Using the body, rhythm and sound we will unpick our sense of belonging to discover our contemporary ceremonies.
You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Stapleford’s practice explores the physicality of storytelling and body memories. Occupying spaces outside of art venues, places of worship, empty buildings and public spaces, she examines subtle gestures and audible experiences. Her work questions gender roles, the everyday and the overlooked.
She is the former Live Words and Music curator, Whitechapel Gallery. Works include: Crowning and Drive Thru Wet Nurse, Metamorphosis 2017, In-Between Two Sounds, Walthamstow Quaker Meeting House, 2010. Collaborations include Other Places with James Porter Site Festival 2016, Triad and Body Chandelier with choreographer Marguerite Caruanagalizia, Place Theater London 2008.
Sunday 7th August 2022 : Alice Sheppard Fidler
A day of slow consideration through clay
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
This workshop will take place predominantly in the garden at The Hide, using local, natural materials.
Over the course of the day we will be adopting the Japanese art form of making 'mud dumplings' in which earth and water are moulded and shaped by hand, then carefully polished to create a delicate shiny sphere. The process requires hours and careful focus so as not to break the ball. We will use this meditative process to connect to our surroundings and our breath giving us a way in to simply be present.
Sheppard Fidler works across installation, sculpture and performance.
Her conceptual art practice utilises and transforms found and recycled materials and spaces to navigate often fragile and imperceptible boundaries between place, human experience and states of being. Her site-specific approach often operates outside of the gallery context, responding to the available, universal, on-hand resources that each new project offers.
www.alicesheppardfidler.com
Friday 5th August 2022 : Emily Lucas
A day of play and experimenting with printing inks
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
Monoprint for Drawing
Come and experiment with relief inks, making mono-printed coloured backgrounds in the morning on which to draw and print onto in the afternoon. This is a non-technical, one-day course, where participants will have an opportunity to play with colour, texture, surface and line using relief printing inks and the etching press. No drawing skills are necessarily required – just the willingness to be inventive and have a go.
Emily studied Drawing and Applied Arts at UWE in Bristol and continued with a Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking MA. She is currently undertaking a PhD in drawing. She has exhibited her work in London, Poland, Greece and Hong Kong and regularly has work in the RWA Open in Bristol. Her work is held in both private and public collections.
Sunday 31st July 2022 : Alice Sheppard Fidler
A day of slow consideration through clay
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
This workshop will take place predominantly in the garden at The Hide, using local, natural materials.
Over the course of the day we will be adopting the Japanese art form of making 'mud dumplings' in which earth and water are moulded and shaped by hand, then carefully polished to create a delicate shiny sphere. The process requires hours and careful focus so as not to break the ball. We will use this meditative process to connect to our surroundings and our breath giving us a way in to simply be present.
Sheppard Fidler works across installation, sculpture and performance.
Her conceptual art practice utilises and transforms found and recycled materials and spaces to navigate often fragile and imperceptible boundaries between place, human experience and states of being. Her site-specific approach often operates outside of the gallery context, responding to the available, universal, on-hand resources that each new project offers.
Sunday 3rd July 2022 : Emily Lucas
A day of play and experimenting with printing inks
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
Monoprint for Drawing.
Come and experiment with relief inks, making mono-printed coloured backgrounds in the morning on which to draw and print onto in the afternoon. This is a non-technical, one-day course, where participants will have an opportunity to play with colour, texture, surface and line using relief printing inks and the etching press. No drawing skills are necessarily required – just the willingness to be inventive and have a go.
Emily studied Drawing and Applied Arts at UWE in Bristol and continued with a Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking MA. She is currently undertaking a PhD in drawing. She has exhibited her work in London, Poland, Greece and Hong Kong and regularly has work in the RWA Open in Bristol. Her work is held in both private and public collections.
Friday 1st July 2022 : Nick Grellier
A day working with text and visual language
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
In this day workshop we will use low value, accessible materials and methods of drawing, collage and assemblage to look at building visual language. By giving text and language equal weight to image and embracing intuitive making, play and humour, we will let go of judgements on what are good or bad outcomes and gain creative insight and freedom.
Nick Grellier’s practice centres on drawing, collage, assemblage, textile and text.
MA Fine Art UWE Bristol 2017-2020, BA Fine Art Chelsea School of Art 1985-1988. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions SPacejUNK drawing project (solo) SVA John Street Jan 2022, A Room of Her Own Irving Contemporary Oxford March-April 2022, SFSA Drawing Open no format Gallery Deptford May 2022, TODAY drawing project (solo) SVA John Street Jan 2020. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 various UK venues. Residency At The Garage Bristol March 2022, Drawing Symposium Lockdown 1 Pecha Kucha Drawing is Free/ Drawing Projects UK Feb 2022.
Friday 20th May 2022 : Nick Grellier
A day working with text and visual language
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
In this day workshop we will use low value, accessible materials and methods of drawing, collage and assemblage to look at building visual language. By giving text and language equal weight to image and embracing intuitive making, play and humour, we will let go of judgements on what are good or bad outcomes and gain creative insight and freedom.
Nick Grellier’s practice centres on drawing, collage, assemblage, textile and text.
MA Fine Art UWE Bristol 2017-2020, BA Fine Art Chelsea School of Art 1985-1988 Recent and forthcoming exhibitions SPacejUNK drawing project (solo) SVA John Street Jan 2022, A Room of Her Own Irving Contemporary Oxford March-April 2022, SFSA Drawing Open no format Gallery Deptford May 2022, TODAY drawing project (solo) SVA John Street Jan 2020. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 various UK venues. Residency At The Garage Bristol March 2022, Drawing Symposium Lockdown 1 Pecha Kucha Drawing is Free/ Drawing Projects UK Feb 2022.
Friday 13th May 2022 : Alice Sheppard Fidler
A day performing alternative drawing
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
"I prefer to see with closed eyes." Josef Albers
There is no set outcome for the one day workshop on drawing.
We will be responding to light, sound, movement, darkness and touch in a playful and experimental approach to mark making.… a whole body experience working standing, walking sitting, lying…
Sheppard Fidler works across installation, sculpture and performance. Her conceptual art practice utilises and transforms found and recycled materials and spaces to navigate often fragile and imperceptible boundaries between place, human experience and states of being. Her site-specific approach often operates outside of the gallery context, responding to the available, universal, on-hand resources that each new project offers.
Sunday 8th May 2022 : Ann-Margreth Bohl
A day of mindful engagement with gravity
11am-4pm : The Hide Artist Retreat, GL5 5JJ
6 Spaces - suitable for all adults
‘But what is the point of soft without hard or weight without lightness’ - Isamu Noguchi
On this day course, you are invited to cut, rip, rub, chip, hang, burry and tangle, playing with inherent material qualities of stone and paper.
Based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, Ann-Margreth works in stone, metal, sound and beeswax.
She’s interested in light, shadow and the passing of time. Her work includes monumental sculptures which are time pieces: they cast a complex and changing series of shadows. Like modern ‘Stonehenges’, they’re precisely aligned with the sun as it moves across the sky.
https://www.annmargrethbohl.com/