LDF | The Art Academy x JTRE London Workshops

Art Academy and JTRE London host three days of free art and design workshops at the brand-new academy campus at Triptych Bankside, 185 Park Street, London SE1 9BL. The built realm and architecture are the inspiration for a series of hands-on sessions, each hosted by a different specialist (drawing, collage, printmaking etc) each day.

Art Academy Tutors – Be will guide you through 3 different works

Beñat Olaberria, Friday 20th September 2pm – 4pm

In this dynamic and interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to create a modern interpretation of a myriorama, a 19th-century set of illustrated cards that could be arranged in countless ways to form different panoramic scenes. Drawing inspiration from the rich architectural landscape of London’s Bankside area, each participant will contribute a unique abstract painting that will become part of a larger, collaborative composition.

Workshop Objectives:
– Explore Abstraction and Composition: Participants will engage with abstract art techniques, focusing on how to represent and distill the essence of the urban environment into shapes, colours, and forms.
– Respond to the Urban Landscape: Using the surrounding architecture, shapes, shadows, and other visual elements of the Bankside area as inspiration, participants will create art that reflects and transforms their observations.
– Collaborative Creation: While each painting will be an autonomous work of art, it will also function as a piece of a larger, flexible composition with multiple possibilities for arrangement, reflecting the spirit of the original myriorama.

Image credits & copyright – Beñat Olaberria

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London Design Festival workshop with Beñat Olaberria, Friday 20th September 2pm – 4pm£0.00
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Map Making Walk ‘n’ Draw with Zoe Toolan!

Saturday 21st September 2pm to 4pm

This on location drawing workshop will guide you to lesser known sites around the local area with the aim of creating a highly personal map from both observational sketching and psychogeography.
Zoe will run a fun and friendly workshop with participants getting to know each other as they walk together, culminating in a sharing of each other’s maps at Art Academy Bankside: even though we’ve all walked the same path, everyone’s journey is unique.
Session time 2 hours. Approximately 1 hour of walking in total, punctuated with various stopping points.
Meeting place at 2pm– Guy’s Courtyard, part of Guy’s Campus and close to London Bridge  station. Directly next to the back entrance of the Science Gallery. Check Map.

Image credits & copyright – Simon Lee Dicker

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Zoe Toolan, Saturday 21st September, 2pm to 4pm£0.00
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Nature and the City: Printmaking Workshop with Stella Yarrow

Sunday 22nd September 2pm to 4pm

In this workshop, you will learn simple, quick and enjoyable ways to make expressive and spontaneous one-off prints by hand on the theme of ‘Nature and the City’. Your tutor Stella Yarrow specialises in imagery of nature which can be found around us in London and will guide you in making images which combine city architecture with natural features. The workshop will take a playful approach, allowing you to experiment with making marks with different materials. The methods can be replicated at home.
Image Credit: Stella Yarrow
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Nature and the City with Stella Yarrow, Sunday 22nd September, 2pm to 4pm£0.00