Join artist Babette van Gerwen for a workshop focused on intuitive artmaking, using music as a guide.
Inspired by her own creative practice, this workshop is shaped to encourage fun and confidence in an intuitive creative process. You’ll be guided through a series of exercises to pieces of music, designed to help you tune in and respond expressively through your listening experience. No drawing experience necessary.
There will be two workshops with two different types of music – the first with indie, rock, folk and classical-inspired music, and the second with electronic music varying from ambient to atmospheric techno.
Classes – 1 – 2:30 PM (Indie)
Classes – 3 – 4:30 PM (Electronic)
All materials provided – just bring yourself!
This workshop is part of the artist’s exhibition FEELING EVERYTHING at VFD. You’ll be able to see the work on display in the workshop space.
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FEELING EVERYTHING is an exhibition by Babette van Gerwen, a multi-media artist in East London working primarily with paint and found materials.
Babette’s work investigates the importance of art as a means of exploring the vast variety in human identity and experience, beyond the linear structures and binaries imposed on us in our capitalist, heteronormative, patriarchal society. Art is a crucial means through which we can explore what otherwise cannot be expressed within our existing structures of communication.
FEELING EVERYTHING aims to show the power of the intuitive in revealing these otherwise impossible to express experiences. In a world where logic and objective thought is held above else, we are taught to ignore our own intuition. Capitalism thrives on us being disconnected from our bodies, our feelings and sensations. Art can therefore be a radical act of resistance that enables us to tune into our bodies, listen to our feelings and explore our identity and experience beyond what exists through linear structures and binaries.
Babette’s practice focuses on sensing and intuitive response. The work is an embodiment of her physicality, drawing on abstract expressionist and surrealist approaches to creating, using gesture, shape, and colour as guiding themes. Each piece reflects an element of lived experience, summarising a feeling or sensation, incorporating found materials and layering different forms of media to create textured, sculptural paintings.
An important aspect of Babette’s practice is empowering creativity in others. As part of this exhibition, we’ll be hosting two art workshops based on making in response to music, shaped to encourage fun and confidence in an intuitive creative process.
www.babettevangerwen.com