Author: Alys Scott Hawkins

Figure & Story: life drawing session

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This autumn I will be running a narrative life drawing session at Jo Morley Studio in Southampton.

“A half day drawing workshop with artist Alys Scott-Hawkins. Draw from the clothed figure in response to stories, in this playful, structured session.

We’ll warm up by making a series of drawings in which the figure is in action, and then draw the model as a character in longer poses which derive from a short story or poem.

This session is for beginners and experienced artists who are looking for inspiration with visual storytelling. The drawings produced in the session could be the starting point for a graphic narrative, storyboard, illustration or animated sequence.”

Sunday 15 November, 1-4pm, £38 per person. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/figure-story-playful-life-drawing-session-tickets-1994800067701

GIANT’S CARESS SCREENS IN AUSTRIA

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Black and white laurel graphic for Suburbinale 2025 with a coloured rainbow logo for the festival at the centre.

My 1 minute film will be screened at Surburbinale: “the only film festival worldwide focusing on international film productions reflecting the challenges and chances of suburban life”, located in the eastern suburbs of Vienna, where the Donauauen national park emerges from the city’s borders.

The festival runs from 4-9 November, and my film will be screened on 5 Nov, Stadtsaal Gross-Enzersdorf, at 18.30.

www.suburbinale.com

Three of my works feature in new book

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Cover of a paperback book, with an image of two female cat-like characters, drawn kneeling opposite each other on a green background. The title is below on an orange background. The book is pictured on pebbles in the sunshine.

Three of my early experimental animated documentary films feature in Body & ‘Leib’ (Bodily-self-consciousness) in Animation Art by Luzie Kollinger, published in German by Shueren Verlag.

These include Bun in the Oven, my graduation film made at University of Northumbria in 1999, Hysteria made at the Royal College of Art in 2001, and Herein made in 2004 during a residency at MuseumsQuartier Vienna at the invitation of animation festival Tricky Women.

I have written about the experience of re-visiting these works through Luzie’s writing, over on Instagram

Giant’s Caress premieres at Southampton Film Week

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I couldn’t be happier that my new 1 minute film will get its first outing in the SFW: Shorts competition screening on the big screen at MAST on Sunday 10 November. It’s selected in the Artist Film category and is in the running for four awards. Film Week is run by City Eye, the brilliant community film charity which introduced me to making moving image at the tender age of 14.

Outdoor exhibition, giant paper figures

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I’m very excited to be a finalist exhibiting at Art in the Garden, in the beautiful Little Forest near Fareham from 25th May – 8th June 2024

Open 10am-5pm weekends
10am-4pm weekdays
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays
Explore the 3 acre meadow & woodland path full of artworks
20+ exhibiting artists and makers
Free entry

Evergreen, Trampers Lane, North Boarhunt, Fareham, Hampshire, PO17 6BU

A paper hand emerges from a dark wooded space
A white woman with grey hair and glasses, stands in from of a giant size paper head and arm, emerging from a metal shelter surrounded bu green plants.

Residency at John Hansard Gallery Southampton

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In March I will be spending five days in the Active Space at John Hansard Gallery, experimenting with landscape and portraiture in response to the work of feminist Greenlandic and Danish Pia Arke, currently on show in the Silences and Stories exhibition. 

Over the next few weeks I will be sharing my research and ideas on Instagram, and when I’m in the gallery visitors will be able to come and see me at work, and interact with my experiments.

Portrait workshops at Southampton City Art Gallery

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I am running half or full day portrait drawing workshops at Southampton City Art Gallery on Sat 8th July, and Sat 16th September, as part of the current exhibition Creative Connections, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery.

“This exhibition seeks to tell the story (or indeed stories) of Southampton through portraiture from the National Portrait Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery’s collections, as well as new work created by Pete Codling and by students from Cantell School.

Join Alys Scott Hawkins at these friendly and relaxed portrait sessions. The morning session is for those wishing to develop confidence with drawing from observation, or looking for new approaches, and will involve a series of quick and playful exercises drawing a clothed model. The afternoon session continues a relaxed and experimental approach and focuses on portraits and self-portraits, responding to music and drawing with colour. You are welcome to book for either morning, afternoon or both!”

The workshops are free. You do have to pay a £10 deposit per session, and this will be refunded when you attend. Book here

I AM TOO HOT: solo exhibition of new work in Southampton

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Please join me in Arch 4, at Arches Studios Southampton, for an exhibition of new work made this year during my Arts Council-funded development project. Friday 25th November, 5-8pm and Saturday 26th November, 2-5pm

This body of work explores parenthood, ageing and perimenopause, through self-portraiture, text works and moving image installation.

A free catalogue will be available, including a text by writer Frances Borzello, author of Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits (Thames & Hudson).

Kids welcome. Food and drink provided.

Thanks to ‘a space’ arts for the use of Arch 4 through the Testing Space part of their Artist Development programme. Thanks to Arts Council England for financial support through the Developing Your Creative Practice funding scheme.

Access: Arch 4 is a ground floor railway arch with level entry but an uneven floor. Accessible toilet. Parking nearby. Details of parking and public transport at the bottom of this page (scroll down to see Arches Studios) https://aspacearts.org.uk/contact