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Matthew Harris - Back to front & back again

“Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.”
John Cage


A four-day workshop to explore playful ways in which images and visual information can be generated and developed through drawing.

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We always enjoy welcoming artist Matthew Harris to the InStitches studio.  A graduate of Goldsmiths College, Matthew has been working with textiles since 2000, having for the previous ten years made and exhibited drawings and works on paper. He has shown in a number of group and solo exhibitions throughout the U.K, Ireland and Japan.
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Matthew's work  employs dyeing, cutting and hand stitching and is concerned primarily with abstract imagery and the translation of drawn marks into cloth. By making work that is pieced, patched and assembled, he aims to create pieces that explore repetition, pattern and the disrupted or dissonant journey of line and image across and through the surface of cloth.
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Over this four-day workshop with Matthew you will explore playful ways in which images and visual information can be generated and developed through drawing.
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By working with individual imagery gathered in sketch books, photographs etc, you will be trying to exploit the potential of sometimes the most simple and mundane scraps of image, mark and shape. 
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Day 1 Drawing
Working from a series of sketchbook images, drawings, photographs etc you will explore a number of exercises and processes that will allow you to generate and develop visual information from an apparently simple starting point. By the end of the day, you should have a series of images that will form the starting point for the work on day 2
 
Day 2-4 Response and interpretation
Days two and three are about development and interpretation. The images that were created on day one now become a starting point or template for the development of further images that distil and evolve the original imagery, moving it away from the original starting point in an attempt to create new and unexpected visual material.
 
The interpretation of these images into textile materials is the final stage of the project, though you may decide at this stage that paper is enough. Whether you decide to continue with paper or move into textile materials the emphasis is always on how you might sensitively interpret anything you have done on paper.
 
This workshop is especially suited to students who are already developing their own creative practice. ​
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Stop Press! This workshop has just 3 places left
​Date: Tuesday 25th – Friday 28th April 2023 (4 days)

 ​The studio will be open from 9.15am and the workshop will start at 9.30am until 4.30pm (ish) each day.

Cost: £500  (this includes some materials)

A £245 deposit will secure your place. 
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Please note: Places are limited and are available on a first come, first served basis; to secure your place please ensure that your deposit is paid at the time of booking.

There will be home-made biscuits with morning coffee, a light seasonal lunch and an enticing cake with a pot of afternoon tea.  
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​Please note: Places are limited and are available on a first come, first served basis
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Booking implies that you agree with our terms and conditions for in real life workshops.
You can read them here: The Small Print
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Matthew Harris: Back to Front... 25-28 April 2023 DEPOSIT

Matthew Harris: Back to Front... 25-28 April 2023 DEPOSIT

£250.00

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To see more of Matthew's work visit his website 

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