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Experiments with Image / Mediums and Materials in Dialogue
Join artist Alexander Ikhide for a free drop-in workshop to create a unique piece of work
This workshop invites you to use collage, paint, pastels and inks to explore themes of identity, spirituality and representation with an emphasis on how colour and composition can be key elements in the creation of artworks. Participants can explore incorporating self-portrait photography into their works, embellishing these photos with paints and pastels.
Drawing from a rich history of artists from the 20th century and beyond you will create your own unique artwork/s to take home that are as visually striking as they are thought provoking.
This workshop is free, drop-in, and suitable for ages 14-26.
This is part of a series of monthly workshops curated by Adobe Creative Resident Michael Akuagwu.
Every month we will be looking at examples of collage and mixed media with great artists and different themes as inspiration. Here we explore photomontage, collage, assemblage, watercolour and more.
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Alexander Ikhide is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in photography, collage (analogue/digital), painting and drawing, exploring ideas of the body as well as a merging of photography and painting to produce mixed media abstract works on paper. Through a method of gestural abstraction and mark making, taking on influence from an abstract expressionist painting tradition alongside ideas and themes from the surrealist movement, utilising disparate source material through image juxtapositions as collage. He incorporates African symbols and ideograms that are present in sculptural works, textiles, architecture, woodwork and carvings that carry spiritual, cultural and ritualistic meanings. A coming together of these influences to formulate a hybridized aesthetic begins to materialise in his works, transforming the ways in which African centred aesthetic traditions that have been relegated to 'primitivism' can be utilised in contemporary discourse and located within the canon of modern art.
This workshop is free, drop-in, and suitable for ages 14-26.
This is part of a series of monthly workshops curated by Adobe Creative Resident Michael Akuagwu.
Every month we will be looking at examples of collage and mixed media with great artists and different themes as inspiration. Here we explore photomontage, collage, assemblage, watercolour and more.
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Alexander Ikhide is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in photography, collage (analogue/digital), painting and drawing, exploring ideas of the body as well as a merging of photography and painting to produce mixed media abstract works on paper. Through a method of gestural abstraction and mark making, taking on influence from an abstract expressionist painting tradition alongside ideas and themes from the surrealist movement, utilising disparate source material through image juxtapositions as collage. He incorporates African symbols and ideograms that are present in sculptural works, textiles, architecture, woodwork and carvings that carry spiritual, cultural and ritualistic meanings. A coming together of these influences to formulate a hybridized aesthetic begins to materialise in his works, transforming the ways in which African centred aesthetic traditions that have been relegated to 'primitivism' can be utilised in contemporary discourse and located within the canon of modern art.
