Engaging with Frink
Monday 10 March 2008
(additional date may be arranged please contact us for details)
A one day seminar for artists

Using the works in the current exhibition at Sherborne house ‘Elisabeth Frink - Works from the Archive’ as a starting point ‘Engaging with Frink’ will offer a stimulating series of talks and discussions exploring the relevance of Elisabeth Frink to contemporary artists.

The day is aimed at professional artists from all disciplines. It will investigate Frinks methods and techniques and ask the questions; why figuration, why sculpture, why politics? It will contextualise her work in relation to the world events which influenced her, the abstraction adopted by her peers and her role as muse and inspiration for two contemporary practising artists. The day will also include a fascinating insight into Frink the artist by her son Lin Jammet. There will be plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion and debate both around Frinks work but also in general around the issues of thinking and working in 2D and 3D.

PROGRAMME

10am Registration/Coffee

10.15 Introduction

10.30 Tour of exhibition and a personal perspective from Lin Jammet

11.30 Frink in Context
Discussion led by Annette Ratuszniak – Curator ‘A Certain Unexpectedness’ Elisabeth Frink Retrospective 1996

12.30 Lunch

1.30 Frink in Practice
Ant Beetlestone and Lisa Lindqvist - two artists whose work has been influenced by Frink will discuss their working methods and the impact that she has had on their practice

3pm Choice of sessions

Discussion Group: Using Frinks drawing and graphic work as a starting point to explore how artists express or translate 2D to 3D and considering the different approaches demanded by 2D and 3D thinking
Film Screening: Archive film footage of Elisabeth Frink

Practical Session: Working in plaster in response to Frink

4.30 End

DETAILS
For further details or to book a place please email or phone admin@sherbornehouse.org.uk 01935 816426 / 01935 816734

COST: £25 (includes light lunch)
DATE: Monday 10th March 10am – 4.30pm
VENUE: Sherborne House, Newland, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3JG