Workshop led by artist Elizabeth Hammond, responding to music through drawing exercises while musicians sound-check.
Elizabeth Hammond is leading a drawing workshop at Salisbury Arts Centre on Friday 26 February, and the whole thing is built around a bit of a weird, behind-the-scenes setup. Instead of a quiet room with a still life to look at, you'll be drawing while musicians sound-check on stage. The music isn't a performance for the room, but the sound of a band getting ready, and that's exactly what you're meant to respond to.
Hammond, an artist, will lead the session with a series of drawing exercises that use the sound-check as the prompt. The idea is to let the music guide the line and the page, so you're drawing what you hear rather than what you see. It's a way of working that puts the sound first and the image second, and since the music is a sound-check — a sequence of runs, tweaks, and fragments — it's more about the process than a finished piece.
On the music side, you'll hear Dan Baker and Paul Young, the two musicians who'll be running through their set while you work. Their sound-check provides the raw material for the workshop, so the drawing and the music happen in the same room at the same time. It's a bit of a peek behind the curtain, seeing how a show comes together from the inside out, and turning that into something you can actually do yourself.
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It's a one-off session at the Arts Centre, so if you've ever wanted to try drawing without the pressure of getting something 'right', this is a good way in. The workshop runs on Friday 26 February at Salisbury Arts Centre in Salisbury.
