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CREATIVE JOURNAL WORKSHOP

Katherine Bull - CREATIVE JOURNAL WORKSHOP

Katherine Bull is a Cape Town based visual artist who has practiced as a lecturer in tertiary education for over two decades.  In 2018 she started Fourfold Art Mentorship as a venture to offer various participatory forums of art mentorship for artists and designers.  In her creative work she is interested in the mechanisms of embodied perception through exploring immersive, dialogical and meditative processes of making.

Since receiving her MFA degree from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (1998), Bull has produced eleven solo exhibitions, taken part in numerous group exhibitions and performed at international conferences in Poland, USA and Estonia. She was selected for the Ampersand Fellowship in New York (2007), Dwayer International Residency in Alexandria, Egypt (2008), Nosadella Due residency in Bologna Italy (2015) as an AIR Laureate (2014) and most recently a resident artist at LIA, Leipzig, Germany (2022)

www.katherinebull.co.za | @fourfold_art | @kathbull

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In this series of workshops we will explore exercises in writing, drawing and collage as ways of journaling our thoughts, memories and feelings. The intention of the workshops is to encourage participants to find a personal way for journaling to become part of their daily mental health routine and a resource for further creative projects.

As a visual artist I find drawing and visualizing easier than putting words to my thoughts and feelings. Practicing image, mark & word relationships becomes a playful and generative way of exploring thresholds of legibility and expression - and how image and text can work together to express the nuance and complexities of our human experience.

(No prior visual art experience required.)

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."

Susan Sontag

Suggested materials:

  • 20 sheets A4-A3 blank paper/sketch paper (can range in quality depending on your budget)
  • note paper/exercise book for writing
  • Scraps of different papers (tracing/baking paper, brown paper, wrapping paper)
  • old magazines (for collage)/ AND/OR collection of books as reference material
  • pencil & eraser
  • Ink pens (ballpoint, fineliner, permanent marker)
  • colour drawing media (pencil crayons, pastels) - OPTIONAL
  • black/brown ink
  • scissors/craft knife
  • sticky tape/masking tape
  • glue stick/craft glue
  • ruler/straight edge (eg piece of cardboard)

(If you do not have certain materials on the list, be inventive with what you have available and what you can source and recycle.)

 


Dates: Saturday 7 & 14 December

Time: 10am - 1pm

Zoom Link: Will be emailed to you on successful registration and payment

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OUR FEE OPTIONS

We’re experimenting with a sliding scale fee model, allowing for the Writer’s Way events to be offered at multiple price points based on your financial circumstances.

For it to work, we’re relying on principles of truthfulness and accountability.

Teachers deserve to be paid and course participants deserve to attend personal development courses which recognise the multiple reality of economic access and privilege that exist.

Fee option 1 is a reduced rate for those whose budget genuinely cannot accommodate option 2.

Fee option 2 represents the fair and true cost of the course.

Fee option 3 is for those who are able to pay for themselves and pay extra towards making it possible for another person to attend a LRC writing course at a nominal rate.

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