3 July 2010
Starts: 10:00
Ends: 16:00

Making a Poem-House

A mixed-media workshop with Artist and Illustrator Brigid Collins

At The Stables, Cromarty on Saturday July 3rd and Sunday July 4th 2010 from 10-4pm

Give your favourite poem a home of its own, by creating a three-dimensional visual context — or Poem-House for it.

This workshop will help and inspire you to design and make a personal response to your chosen poem, using the ‘Poem-House’ template provided as a starting point. You will create an environment to fit within it, inspired by both the form and the feeling of that poem, using collage and simple 3D making techniques.

About Brigid Collins:

Her training as an illustrator, practicing as a visual artist and lecturing on design courses have combined to give Brigid numerous opportunities to explore the interrelationship between word, image and space and to bring the discoveries made through this exploration to her experience of poetry.

Inspired by a sense of a poem being a space, within which it becomes possible to move around, Brigid has developed her ‘Poem-House’ form, with the work of poets such as Seamus Heaney, John Burnside, Diana Hendry, Kathleen Jamie, Brian Johnstone, Larry Butler, Ken Cockburn and others. This workshop will introduce some of the basic techniques employed in the making of these forms, whilst emphasizing the potential for participants to uncover innovative routes to making a highly personal visual interpretation of poems that have unique meaning for them.

Brigid Collins is an artist and illustrator and a lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, in Dundee. Passionate in her desire to forge relationships between images and poetry, in particular, she creates paintings and assemblages in 2 and 3D, often in collaboration with writers, poets and other artists and also exhibits widely. She has recently working exhibited at the StanZa Poetry Festival in St. Andrews and The Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, near Inverness.

Publications include ‘Room to Rhyme’ (2004) an illustrated volume of a speech given by the poet, Seamus Heaney, “a place where thought happens…” (2006) an Artist’s Book with poet, Larry Butler and jewellery designer, Teena Ramsay and “For A’ That” (2009) an anthology of contemporary writing in response to Robert Burns, with contributions from Janice Galloway, Kirsty Gunn, Bill Manhire and DBC Pierre and others.

Have a look at her website at www.brigidcollins.co.uk

Cost of the 2 day workshop is £80 payable to Cromarty Arts Trust and booking in advance is essential as places are limited.

Hope to see you there — this is going to be great!

Cromarty Arts Trust

www.cromartyartstrust.org.uk

Telephone: 01381 600354