Workshop: Drawing the Unseeable: Plankton and the Monstrous

Join Jim Holyoak in drawing to explore the microscopic world of plankton. Workshop  will be held in the theatre where pictures of aquatic creatures will be projected and used as inspiration for drawings.

Please bring a pad of paper or sketch book and drawing tools of your choice eg: pencils and pencil crayons.

Jim Holyoak’s practice consists of drawing, ink-painting and writing, artists’ books, and large-scale drawing installations. He received a BFA from the University of Victoria, an MFA from Concordia University, and was a student of master ink-painter Shen Ling Xiang, in Yangshuo, China. In parallel to his solo practice, Holyoak has orchestrated numerous collaborative drawing projects, often with fellow artist Matt Shane, and sometimes involving hundreds of people drawing together. His work has been exhibited  widely, including at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, La biennale de Québec, Tegnerforbundet (Drawing Association) in Oslo, KM21 (formerly the GEM Museum of Contemporary Art) in The Hague, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Rīga, the Carnegie Mellon International Drawing Symposium in Pittsburgh, and the Teckningsmuseet (Museum of Drawings) in Sweden. Holyoak has attended artist residencies in New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Banff, The Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, and throughout Norway. His drawings and writing have also been featured in magazines Dark Mountain (issue # 26, 2024), FUKT Magazine (issue #21, 2023), Esse (2023 & 2017),  and Border Crossings (2015). His work has also been included in books such as Drawing in the Present Tense (Thames & Hudson, 2023) and Fire Season (Anthology published annually by Amory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wies, 2020).  With flask publishing (Victoria), Holyoak recently released a 500-page, fully illustrated, fantasy novel entitled Book of 19 Nocturnes, as an alphabetized edition (26 / A-Z). Holyoak teaches remotely for  Emily Carr University of Art + Design from the traditional, unceded territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx Sinixt Arrow Lakes peoples, in the town of Nelson, BC. 

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