- Venue
- Standpoint Gallery
- Starts
- Wednesday, June 3, 2015
- Ends
- Saturday, June 6, 2015
- Address
- 45 Coronet Street, (off Old Street) London. N1 6HD
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet Street, (off Old Street)
Sarah Lawton will lead in a performative drawing event, which focuses on Sanskrit gesture and movement. During the opening event at 6.30pm on 3rd June acclaimed classical dancers, Katie Ryan and Maryam Shakiba will perform an Odissi Informance. Participants will learn about the connection between gesture and embodied movement to create their own contribution and drawing. Artworks in the exhibition will include prints and hand-carved blocks as making tools, an Odissi dance drawing series, graphite on paper and some textile work. Crafted-works will include woodcut and lino-cut blocks based on Indian hand gestures. Visitors to the exhibition may select a block and mark-make onto the collaborative fabric and paper. The forthcoming exhibition will present new artwork inspired by Mudras: Hand Gestures of the Sanskrit Drama. Community engagement programmes are currently being ran by Lawton in collaboration with groups in Tower Hamlets and Hackney, including the Boundary and Bondhon Women’s Group (St Hilda’s East), local schools, parents and carers groups. All are welcome to attend the opening event, exhibition. Please booking for the FREE workshop programme . For more information and to book a workshop, please contact:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gestures-and-mudras-drawing-observation-tickets-16550851041 [email protected] or www.sharingthemaking.co.uk
Participants are invited to contribute to a performative workshop at Standpoint Gallery, in London. The artist has been researching Odissi dance and movement through drawing in UK and at Srjan Dance School, Odisha, India. The artwork exhibited in the show will include personal drawings, objects collected from Orissa and selected work made by participants from the South Asian Diaspora. The project is publicly funded through the Arts Council England.
