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.
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.
‘And the Wolf Runs Away’ is currently being exhibited in the associates group show at Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
Photo credit: Gemma Gore
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
My moving image work is currently being screened as part of Our Changing Landscape, a group exhibition at SPUDworks, Sway, until 14th January 2023.
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
My moving image work is currently being screened as part of the Summer Camp exhibition at Eastside Projects in Digbeth, Birmingham, until 15th October.
I recently presented an online screening of my moving image work I AM OKAY / I AM NOT OKAY, and Q&A hosted by curator Vickie Fear. The recording can now be watched online.
If you would like to watch the film, please send me an email: hello@alysscotthawkins.co.uk and I can send you a private link.
I am overjoyed to share this news that I’ve had been keeping quiet for a while… I will be part of the a-n Artists Council for the next three years, advocating for change in the visual arts sector on behalf of a-n’s 28 000 members.
Please join me for an online screening of my moving image work, I AM OKAY / I AM NOT OKAY made during the first UK lockdown of 2020, as a way of documenting the strangeness and dislocation of living through a pandemic. Curator Vickie Fear will host a discussion.
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