Training Artistic Reflexivity: Collaborative Drawing Exercises for Visual Artists
by Jennifer Wigmore
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About the Book
The exercises created in this guide use repetition and collaboration as a tool to practice taking risks and responding without thinking. The collaborative environment makes risk-taking feel more like playing, which fosters a sense of community, building trust and empathy. Students re-discover how to play, how to listen to their bodies’ impulses and how to reconnect with their curiosity. Through these playful exercises, students strengthen their concentration and focus, stretching their creative limits though incremental risk-taking. Training artistic reflexivity is not about creating art, but about training the reflexive impulse that allows art to happen. Training the reflexive impulse teaches the artist to say, Yes!
About the Creator
A trans-disciplinary artist and educator (in both acting and visual art), Jennifer completed her MFA in the Interdisciplinary Masters of Art and Design program at OCAD University. Her research focus hybridized her theatre and visual art disciplines and adapted improvisational acting techniques into collaborative gestural drawing exercises for visual artists to train them to be more artistic reflexive. Jennifer has a successful visual art practice and regularly shows her work. She has curated many exhibitions and is a founding member of Blunt Collective which takes her work to an international audience. Jennifer’s work is in private collections throughout Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. She continues to work as a teacher, in theatre and the visual arts. She is currently collaborating on a book about the Zone of Silence acting technique with master teacher, Perry Schneiderman.