Writing Art
 

This eight-week course explores the close relationship between art and writing, reflecting on how language shapes our understanding of visual culture, and how art can inspire and inform the written text. By engaging with a wide range of art writing forms, from critical essays and exhibition texts to autotheory and experimental writing, including influential readings from writers such as John Berger, Maggie Nelson and Olivia Laing, participants will be encouraged to find their unique, personal voice and perspectives in art writing.

 

Through discussion, creative exercises, and close interaction with the course leader, they will consider how art writing can transcend mere description to become a form of art itself, as well as transmuting other visual languages into text. They will also consider the cultural contexts of their own writing, on which they will receive feedback both from their fellow course members and the course tutor, reflecting on how different social and cultural backgrounds can influence the ways art is interpreted and written about, ultimately opening up new possibilities for their own creative and critical practices.

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Writing Art takes place at our fantastic workshop space in the heart of the Trinity Triangle (two doors down from the brilliant The Hastings Bookshop). As with all our workshops, as part of our partnership with our good friends and neighbours at the bookshop, course members are entitled to a 15% discount on books bought in the shop, during their programme and for one month afterwards.