14. Architectural Drawing Project, July-Aug 2012.

A project exploring technical, architectural, and traditional drawing skills.

Key influences were the fantasy drawings of Piranesi and more recently, the drawings of Turner Prize nominee Paul Noble. Members learned drawing techniques such as pen and ink, stippling, hatching, and crosshatching. Washes were laid down with ink and brush and then details refined with varying thickness of drawing pen.

Provisional exercises included everyone drawing from memory the front door of their home, and drawing their childhood home. As well as memory, we wanted to focus on the meeting between architecture and fantasy, and our research into Piranesi and Noble lead to the main project..a huge drawing of a fantasy island made of imaginative buildings created by the members. Each were allocated a building or feature, and they were then all brought together and unified into a collective drawing.

13. Fluxus Art Project, March-April 2012.

A series of projects inspired by the 'Fluxus' art movement. 

Fluxus was about bringing art to the public beyond the limitations of the gallery. It was about mixed, media, and a playful and humorous gesture. The work was usually small, and simple in its method, and often made use of text. 

The members made several series of works, with the intention that some of the finished pieces would be part of the 'Islington Word Festival 2012', and displayed at the Annual Spring Ball at Islington Town Hall.

The projects included drawings made in response to listening to music, which where then developed into paintings and projected behind the dancers at the town hall event. They also made fluxus 'instructions'. These took the form of small signs that were produced in multiples and left in public spaces, to confound, intrigue and amuse surprised members of the public. And finally, life drawings from the previous term were used as the basis for word collages, wherein figures became a mass of collaged words.