Guest House: Unwriting the Artist's Statement Online Workshop with Elle Reynolds

Guest House: Unwriting the Artist's Statement Online Workshop with Elle Reynolds

IMT Gallery

Artform: Education
Event date: Sun, 17th May 2026
Remote

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 "> published -

Event Summary

Join us for a focused, playful session of conversation, making, and discovering your own voice. This workshop creates space to build confidence, loosen habits around language, and allow your voice to develop naturally, staying close to your practice rather than separate from it.

Event Description

Unwriting the Artist's Statement invites you to abscond from International Art English and respond directly to your work. Moving away from the critical language often used to address contemporary art, this workshop proposes different protocols for speaking about your practice to the world. Through a series of guided prompts, improvisation, and gentle exercises, participants will work with revision, association, and a deliberate quality of randomness, to develop ways of using their own voice. The focus is on speaking through the work rather than separating language from practice. This is a supportive space for play, experimentation, and discovery. No previous experience or prepared text is needed. Over the two hours, you will: - Develop new ways of talking about your work that feel personal and less rehearsed - Loosen habits around formal or institutional language - Build confidence in speaking and writing about your practice - Generate material you can continue to develop after the session - Connect with others navigating similar questions around language and practice. Artist/scholar\researcher\quiet disrupter, Elle Reynolds has a background in organising practice. She continually challenges traditional institutional structures, reimagining the use of time and space. Her art making under the pseudonym Guest-Host-Guest includes object installation, collaborative events, performative storytelling and interventions that unsettle the notion of archive through spatial exploration, participation, and the disruption of academic language. She holds a PhD investigating alternative art school spaces and serves as a Non-Executive Director and Board member of TOMA (The Other MA), an alternative art school in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Recent projects include workshops for New Contemporaries and Creative Break Time. She is currently Programme Leader of the Graduate Diploma in Art at Goldsmiths. Tickets (inc booking fee): General Admission: £65.71 Concessions £44.04

Event Overview

  • Event Title: Guest House: Unwriting the Artist's Statement Online Workshop with Elle Reynolds
  • Type: Workshop
  • Date: Sun, 17th May 2026
  • Location: Remote

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How to Book

Places are limited to keep the session conversational and supportive—book early to secure your place via the link below.

Early Bird rates are available until 29 March at 11:59pm GMT.