Online Workshops

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CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART AND WORSHIP COURSE. Autumn 22. Registration now open. http://TrinityCollegeGlasgow.co.uk/visual-art-and- worship. see below:

ART AND PRAYER AUTUMN WORKSHOPS:

New workshops will offered in the Autumn term. To be informed of future workshops please sign up to the mailing list: https://soulmarks.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=fac21c6c83d0c7e3e1fd94ffb&id=3471228dd9 Autumn 2022

Creation 

Online AUTUMN Workshops 2022 

A series of four Art and Prayer workshops

DATES TO BE CONFIRMED

7 DAYS January – June 2022

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7 DAYS: Project 1. Part 2 January – June 2022

In January 2022 the panels went back into their original host gardens. As before the changes in the panels and their environments will be documented on this website. It is hoped the panels will be exhibited in Summer 2022. Watch this for details.

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Day 7.

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Art and Prayer Workshop

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weeWONDERBOX is delighted to host ’I Have Called You By Name‘ – A Soul Marks Art & Prayer taster workshop with Carol Marples, on Saturday 4th May 2019 @ 10.00am – 12.30pm. 

The workshop combines practical artwork, image, music, word and silence: no artistic experience is needed. All are welcome … wherever you are on your spiritual and artistic journeys.

Book now, as places are limited.

More info: https://www.wildgoose.scot/…/i-have-called-you-by-name-art-…

Image by art and prayer student

Art and Spirituality@LSA. Term 2

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Term 2. Spirituality and Abstraction.

Jan- March 2017.

Only two weeks to go of this term, so I thought I would do brief update of what the class has been up to. This has been a more reflective term often working in silence, being attentive to  our breath, the marks we make, our own physicality in doing so and materials we use. We then moved on to becoming more attentive and attuned to sound and the senses, responding in colour and mark making. After a day of sitting in Old St. Paul’s Church, Edinburgh the class  created a mixed media art work not of the archtiecture of the space but as response to being in the space – the silence, the sounds and atmosphere of place.

Thoughout the term we have drawn on the work of the following artists for inspiriation: Agnes Martin, Edmund De Waal, Malevich and Yves Klien, Richard Long, Kandinsky, Howard Hogkin, Sonia and Robert Delaunay amongst many other others including poets, writers and musicians.

 

 

Sick Kids Memorial Service 16

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2016 saw the 13th year that Chaplain Carrie Applegath and I have collobrated on the annual Sick Kids Memorial Service for Edinburgh Sick Kids Hospital. It is a privilege to be part of this. The service is for those of faith or no faith and is for all ages. Numbers have grown steadily since we began moving from 40/60 people to around 150. This has meant having to adapt our use of space and how we do things, not least when we found out we could no longer light individual candles. However the service has remained predominantly the same.

Each year the service has a different theme. This year it was ‘Butterflies’ – for fleeting moments we see their colour and beauty and then they are gone. The simple structure of the service consists of several poems, specially written, that acknowledge the pain of grief and loss, enable quite refection and hope to offer light for the journey. Two central parts of the service are the twenty minutes of making – decorating / writing on the butterflies – and the reading of the names of those to be remembered

It was lovely this year to meet a family just a day prior to the service – they have been regularly for the past few years – who said they were looking forward to it. It seemed an odd thing to say, but I was glad to hear it. On the one hand no one wants to really be there because they have lost a young loved one, but it is a sad reality that exists for many. Thus, it is important to have a place to remember, to hear a name spoken aloud and to celebrate beautiful young lives however short. To do this corporately with friends, family or simply to be with others who understand is what this service hopes to offer.

 

 

Landmark Women

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Landmark Women.  Autumn Term. Art and Spirituality Course. LSA. 2016

This four week project as part of the Art and Spirituality course began with an introduction to Feminist theology and liturgy – noting the particular importance of ‘naming’ in Feminist liturgy – and art that celebrates women. Judy Chicago’s art installation ‘The Dinner Party’ was a strong focus.

The LSA 16/17 theme of Landmarks had already led us to look at ‘stones’ seeing them as cairns and markers along the way. In this new project the class were asked to consider who was or had been a Landmark woman for them in their own lives. This might be a historical, biblical or mythological woman or a friend or relative. They were then asked to create this woman as a stone/s considering the shape, pattern, texture, colour(s) that would best represent their character or story.

The following images show the process from simply trying out the medium, experimenting with different materials  – real stones were used as templates, found, collected or in one case searched for from a particular place – through the three weeks of creating to the presentation of the women, their stories and the stones that represented them. We ended by inviting the neighbour classes to an exhibtion of the work.

This work can be seen at  LSA Christmas exhibition. 10am – 4pm. Friday 16th and Saturday 17th December 2016.

https://www.leithschoolofart.co.uk/whats-on-details/christmas-exhibition-2016