Masterclass: Unlocking Imagination: Expanding Your Creative Practice

3 Masterclasses Facilitated by Dr Bonna Jones

Session 1

We are irrepressible imaginers.

The various arts have their purposes, but in the main one they make us into better imaginers. The visual arts encourage us to see and to see in a different way that is not so habitual. Art helps us, even prompts us, to be better imaginers.

Discussion and interaction: we will consider the words we couple with ‘imagining’. We will begin with asking just what imagination is.

Session 2

Memory is about the past and imagination is about the future, because the future can only be imagined. We use our power to imagine to ’see’ the future, because the future does not yet exist.

Discussion and interaction: we will consider how powerful imagination is and how we befriend it.

Session 3

The world is a huge system of interrelated processes and ecologies that are alive and dynamic.

How to take an imaginative leap and understand the world in a fresh way? Discussion and interaction: we will explore how our practice is ongoing within such a world?

‘Constraint’ is a useful concept. As creatives we get to choose the constraints that help our practice to flourish.

Discussion and interaction: we will examine how established artists put constraints into their practice as a way to engage their imagination and befriend this almighty power in sustainable ways.