Join metal sculptor and artist Jacky Oliver in this 2D and 3D artist-led workshop. Taking inspiration from our exhibition Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo, participants will undertake a series of linear drawings, which will then be used to inform wire models.
Explore the properties of different kinds of wire: steel, aluminium, brass and copper. There will be a range of approaches offered to translating the drawings into three dimensions.
Supported places:
Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery wants to encourage and support everyone to be creative and access their creative workshops. Thanks to funding from Arts Council England we are able to offer a limited number of partial and full bursaries to this workshop for those with limited or no financial income. For more details please contact Ryan Watts, education@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk.
About Jacky Oliver
Working in a process led way, ideas are allowed to be fluid making full use thorough research, thoughtful interpretation of the subject she then selects the appropriate technique, materials and scale to create a well informed, highly crafted final outcomes.
Jacky has undertaken residencies and projects in a number of institutions. These include Museums, a botanic garden, in a Library, schools, colleges and universities. Within the community she has facilitated workshops in care homes, with groups in libraries, mixed ability adult/ children workshops and sessions with participants with special needs. Varying in level and timescale from beginner to undergraduate.
Jacky enjoys bringing together a selection of research to create artefacts that stimulate viewers to consider and reflect on the piece on a number of levels. Each project is completely unique and the final outcome is always determined by the journey of exploration. She works in a reactive way that is process led. Responding to research, ideas are allowed to be fluid until all avenues have been explored with model-making and workshop development.
Her work brings together research from museums, archives and the local community, to inform the final artefacts, creating work that builds up a multilayered sense of a place or event. Working with archives, Jacky has created pieces that give a contemporary interpretation to historic material. She creates thought provoking, well considered works that demonstrate high technical skills.
Discover more about Jacky Oliver's work at: www.jackyoliver.co.uk.
Working with Wire Art Workshop with Jacky Oliver is part of our Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo events, supported using public funding by National Lottery through Arts Council England, a grant from the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund and by the Henry Moore Foundation
