Gestures and Mudras: Drawing Observation

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Opening on 3rd June, visual artist Sarah Lawton will lead in a performative drawing event at Standpoint Gallery, which focuses on Sanskrit gesture and movement. During the opening event 3rd June acclaimed classical dancers, Katie Ryan, Maryam Shakiba will perform an Odissi Informance at 7.30pm. Participants will learn about the connection between gesture and embodied movement to create their own contribution and drawing. 

Artworks in the exhibition will include prints and hand-carved blocks, to be used during workshops as 'making tools', an Odissi dance drawing series; graphite on paper and some textile work. Crafted-works will include woodcut and lino-cut blocks based on Indian hand gestures. Visitors to the exhibition may select a block and mark-make, or draw onto the collaborative artwork scroll.

The forthcoming exhibition will present new artwork inspired by Mudras: Hand Gestures of the Sanskrit Drama. Community engagement programmes are currently being ran by Lawton in collaboration with groups in Tower Hamlets and Hackney, including the Boundary and Bondhon Women's Group (St Hilda’s East), local schools, parents and carers groups. All are welcome to attend the opening event, exhibition and FREE workshop programme, booking required. For more information and to book a workshop, please contact:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gestures-and-mudras-drawing-observation-tickets-16550851041

sarah@sharingthemaking.co.uk or www.sharingthemaking.co.uk  

Participants are invited to contribute to a performative workshop at STANDPOINT, in London. The artist has been researching Odissi dance and movement through drawing in UK and at Srjan Dance School, Odisha, India. The artwork exhibited in the show will include personal drawings and selected work made by participants from the South Asian Diaspora.  

The project is funded through the Arts Council England.