Through collaborative exercises, you’ll trace reference images and use projectors to expand your drawings, and create a large wall work. Jake will work with dancers to transform these marks into movements, showcasing the creative possibilities of drawing as a tool for performance.

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About Jake Walker, by Sherbert Green.

Jake Walker lives and works in London. He studied at the Royal Ballet School, before gaining his Foundation in Art from Loughborough University in 2018, and his BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2023. He won the Max Werner Drawing Prize in 2022.

Jake Walker’s practice is informed by an interest in mark-making and choreography, stemming from his early training at the Royal Ballet School and ongoing interest in the construction of sound and movement. Across his oil on canvas works, he intuitively builds up vivid, saturated colourways that he sometimes works to ‘clang,’ a term used to describe when multiple pieces of music in a DJ set are mixed together out of sync or out of key, working energetically across the surface in

layered sessions. The works are abstract, but speak to a visualisation of the multisensory experience of spaces in which the body encounters a built rhythm: a soundscape. The relationship between the artist’s own body, as it moves in relation to the canvas, is the central tool for the formation of this recording. This can be Walker’s whole body moving both expansively across the canvas, or in smaller, controlled, repetitive motions. This becomes a feedback loop, as he then reflects on the emergent forms in the canvas, and responds to them: How could that mark direct a body part moving through a space? Or a number of bodies. What texture does that sound have?

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Image: Jake Walker with Charlotte Edmonds at Eye to Pencil Studios. Photography by Jemima Dempsey.

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This workshop is proudly supported by Julian and Lizanne Knights.

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