Join us at London’s Southbank Centre for our in-person March artist peer group.
These events are an opportunity to hear from two artists about their practice and meet other artists working in the arts & health sector. Our peer groups provide the space for artists to share active ideas, projects and challenges, with peer support from audience participants. Each artist has approximately 45mins to share works and receive feedback and support from you — alongside designated unstructured time to meet others from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.
Our artists this month are Gimara Duncan-Rice and Abigail Hammond. Want to share your work at a future group? Fill out our application form.
Places for this event are strictly limited to those who have pre-registered. We are unable to accommodate walk-ins on the day. The Southbank Centre is an accessible venue. If you have any questions please contact us at info@artsandhealthhub.org.
Image: Gimara Duncan-Rice
About Gimara Duncan-Rice
Originally from Queensland, Gimara is an artist, writer and arts educator. She has delivered many art workshops over the years, including council and museum adult education programmes. Currently, she is a 'Drawing and Painting Lecturer' at North Hertfordshire College, Hitchin Campus. She also founded and runs an online art book club. Besides her artistic practice, she has a background in the sciences.
Image: Gimara Duncan-Rice
In Gimara’s portion of the session you are invited to share different techniques that have helped improve the well-being of your artistic practice. Many factors contribute to unhealthy artistic practice, including lack of funds/space/support, toxic chemicals, poor ergonomics, frustrations within the creative process, artistic envy (including social media), Covid restrictions, etc. As an artist and a drawing and painting lecturer, Gimara will share some of the techniques she uses both with her learners and herself. The session will include a practical exercise before opening the floor to a group discussion.
Image: Abigail Hammond
About Abigail Hammond
Abigail studied Dance Theatre at the Laban Centre, London, specialising in costume design. Over the past 35 years she has created costumes in over 130 choreographic works. Always involved in education, she became Course Leader in Costume Design at Wimbledon College of Art and has taken part in national and international research dissemination activities, through the Society of British Theatre Designers, the V&A, and the University of the Arts London. Deciding on a career change, Abigail graduated from MA Visual Arts: Designer Maker at Camberwell College of Arts in 2019. Her practice explores empathy through sculpture, performance and multi-media installation, currently activist in relation to menopause.
Emerging from the pandemic Abigail is revisiting ideas around solo performance that may develop into collaboration with other menopausal women. The theme being shared at this peer group event is ‘walking on egg shells’ – a metaphor usually associated with tiptoeing around others. These are her eggshells. Using visual language, including the written word, she is interested in whether her idea not only resonates with those experiencing menopause, men and women, but what it ‘speaks’ to others.
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at the Hayward Gallery
The Southbank Centre can offer a limited number of tickets at £5 for a tour of the first major retrospective of this legendary artist to focus exclusively on her work using fabrics and textiles. Bourgeois’s fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation that are central to her long and storied career. If you would like to participate in the tour ahead of our event, we’ll be meeting at the Hayward Gallery at 5pm on 23rd March. The £5 ticket price is in addition to any ticket fee you pay to attend the main event which starts at 6.30pm at the Southbank Centre. Please note tickets cannot be transferred to an alternative time slot.
Cost.
Pay What You Can (suggested donation: £5) / Free