Wendy Welch on Ritual as Repetition in Art Practice
• – • NeighbourSpace
About the speaker
Wendy Welch is a Victoria-based artist with an MFA from UVic and a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal. Her art practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, art writing and curatorial work. Wendy is the Executive Director of the Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA), a private post-secondary accredited art school that Wendy founded in 2004.
Additional details
A ritual can be a daily routine that gives pleasure, comfort or security to the person doing it. Many artists create personal rituals as part of their art practice, whether it be a repeated idea, material, process, or approach. Rituals are a way to clear the mind and provide focus. Examples of how some contemporary artists use repetition as an endless source of motivation and inspiration in their work will be the focus of this talk. Wendy will also discuss ways to set up rituals in your practice to make you create art more often and more regularly.
