How can we use writing as a material for reshaping narratives about art, and remaking our relationships with it? This workshop is a space to experiment with different approaches to writing with art. Writer and facilitator Fiona Glen devised this session in dialogue with Martine Gutierrez’s ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, and participants will spend time actively writing in the exhibition.

Taking inspiration from Gutierrez’s inventive methods and subversive portraits, we will consider the ways in which language can be creatively repurposed to push against powerful cultural stories. Just as Gutierrez’s anti-icon figures ‘refuse easy understanding’, we will try writing in unexpected ways that depart from familiar forms.

Spanning discussion, writing in response to prompts, and opportunities to share with others, this workshop is not about finalising a text. Our aims are to shake up our writing habits and spark new ways of engaging creatively with art and images.

Workshop runs 6-9pm
General admission $10
Members can reserve a $5 spot by using your member's discount code during checkout

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Note that this event has limited capacity and will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Session information
This workshop is open to everyone, but best suited to people who already enjoy writing in some capacity. That could mean journalling or composing poems in your phone notes.

All participants should bring their own preferred writing materials. As we will write while moving around the gallery space, notebooks or phones will be more suitable than laptops.

There will be a short break in the middle of this 3-hour evening session. Refreshments will be provided, but feel free to also bring any drinks or snacks that you would like.

About Fiona Glen
Fiona Glen is a writer and artist from Edinburgh. Across forms, her work explores how we human beings understand ourselves through objects, images and other beings. Glen is interested in collaborative and interdisciplinary forms, and teaches art writing workshops. Her writing has been published in a range of periodicals, alongside anthologies from Prototype, Dark Mountain and HarperCollins.

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