Posted by Rob Tilsley on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 @ 12:18 PM
2010 has started and the art and sculpture students have come back from their holidays to continue their work and study.
This term the 2nd and 3rd year sculpture students start with an intensive 6 weeks painting course with
Martin Gutjahr, an excellent guest teacher from Switzerland.
The Visual Art students are continuing their study of sculpture with Rudolf Kaesbach, working with the theme of composition in relief.
Although I'm sure that there will be a lot of exciting new artworks being created this year, it is worth looking back on the Visual Artists first exhibition which was open during the holidays from Friday the 18th of December until the 11th of January at Emerson College.
Paintings, drawings and sculptures in different materials - clay, wood, chicken wire and plaster were exhibited showing a vast range of activities and works which the art students had worked throughout first term.
It was great to see how the students had set up the whole exhibition, sharing the space and inviting the viewer in.
Julia Dreiseitl
Posted by Rob Tilsley on Fri, Dec 18, 2009 @ 07:27 AM
Jo Kernon, an artist who graduated in June 2009 writes about her final project that she created at Emerson College at the end of her 3 year training in Art and Sculpture.
This final project is a large and challenging part of the training as the students are asked to work on one project independently over six weeks or more.
Jo gave a wonderful presentation about her work. It is important to imagine it in 3-dimensions- the photos should help with that.
Julia Dreiseitl
School of Sculpture Final Show June 2009
Polished Shadows - An Inner Landscape
by Jo Kernon
This work was an exploration of space and depth, inner reflection, temperature and colour. Looking at the myth of Inanna, in which the queen of heaven ventures into the underworld, stripping herself bare of possessions, dies and is reborn through the experience of delving into the forest, the underworld or the deep psyche. The installation encouraged others to enter a mood of depth within space, clarity, quiet reflection and warmth. The room was transformed by grey walls, large blue paintings, a large pink painting, 4000 polished copper coins, a deep rectangular hole under the floor filled with mirrors and water. The natural light in the room was present but gentle, allowing a knowledge of the outside while being in a protected space. The blue of the long paintings and green of the water were complimented by the pink painting and copper coloured coins. The work created a subtle but powerful effect on the whole body; for some it embodied an experience of inner searching, warmth and beauty which can be discovered through reflection, pain and change. The artist placed unfinished poems on a surface at the back of the room, inspired by the process of inner searching. The money gathered was later counted and donated to the Monte Azul Project in São Paulo.
Jo Kernon
Artist
jo.kernon@googlemail.com
Posted by Matt Blissett on Tue, Dec 01, 2009 @ 09:13 AM
Welcome to our Visual Art and Sculpture Course blog from Emerson College!
This course was founded by Rudolf Kaesbach in 1981 and has been running since.
Our Visual Artists are working with a lot of different materials in order to be inspired in a wide range and try out a lot of possibilities for artistic expression.
In the two years of the Sculpture Course the scale of artworks becomes bigger, there is a concentration on certain material and content and the time frame that students work on one project increases.
Rudolf Kaesbach, the course leader, presents us with some introductory words.
Julia Dreiseitl
“From the beginning it was the aim of the course to help students to discover their creative capacities in art, especially sculpture. Additionally it was important to open up the possibilities for students to find their way on how to work with art in the world.
Different directions of art work have been developed in the course: Art and education, introduction to art therapy, Art and social questions, Art as Art, etc.
In the last years the many students who graduated from the course developed artistic work in many fields like: creation of children playgrounds, work with detainees in prison, remedial art work with children in need of help, sculpture in public places, teaching sculpture in schools and adult education, work with sculpture and water, sculpture therapy, etc.
The students of ourtraining took this work all around the world in countries as far as Brazil,Australia, Japan, Israel, Iceland, USA, Chile, all around Europe, etc. Many newtasks have been discovered in their countries of origin.
The background of all this work has always been the inspiring source of Rudolf Steiners work, Anthroposophy.
We are now continuing our research to find out and improve on how this inspiring artistic study in the training can be of service for the changing needs of today.
Just now the students are very involved in their work of discovery and deepening of the basic elements of art. We teachers do whatever we can to protect their free space, in which their own impulses of work can clarify and mature.
It is a great pleasure for me and the other teachers to see how the involvement with art, again and again opens the individual ways of dealing with creative challenges and tasks of our time.”
Rudolf Kaesbach