Artistic Statement Writing workshop

Fri May 21, 11:00 - Fri Jun 25, 13:00

Event is online

ABOUT

The META foundation, in partnership, with Nolan Stevens is hosting a 6 week workshop aimed at practicing artists who are interested in understanding the tools and techniques required to write about their practise. The workshop aims to provide a voice for artists to detail and document the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of their practise.


The workshop will take place over the course of 6 weeks with a 2-hour session once a week. The participants will be expected to do between 2 hours of work on their own weekly. The workshop will be hosted on zoom but anyone based in Johannesburg and who needs to access the internet will be able to do so from August House (where the META foundation is located). The workshop will cover the following topics:


-       Finding a unique voice to explain your practice

-       Understanding your audience

-       Digging into the medium

-       Digging into the meaning

-       Incorporating your personality into the statement

-       Writing in the active voice

-       Proof reading / proof readers


The workshop will result in the artist understanding how to write a statement going forward as well as having a completed statement for their current body of work.


Artists must apply to participate by emailing their CV and a sample of their current writing to [email protected]