Workshop
Somerset House Studios

Grounding Practice: Collective Resourcing

with Rudy Loewe

Thu 13 Apr 2023
18.45 - 20.30
Lancaster Rooms
Pay What You Can

Artist Rudy Loewe offers a Do-It-Together space to share the strategies and tools that make practices sustainable. 

Out of necessity, artists often create resources for themselves. These tools and hacks can be what makes working as an artist possible when navigating burn out, meeting access needs or dealing with the instability of being a freelance worker. 

Through collective drawing and writing, this session focuses on how we can share resources, tapping into a community of knowledge within the group. Light refreshments will be shared during the session. 

This Grounding Practice workshop has been programmed in conjunction with Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy, a dynamic series that considers individual and collective health and wellbeing through a programme of newly commissioned artworks, films, workshops, and conversations. The 2023 programme focuses on disability justice and artists who engage with the space of health and care.

About Rudy Loewe

Rudy Loewe (b. 1987) visualises Black histories and social politics through painting, drawing and text. They began a Techne funded practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London in 2021, critiquing Britain’s role in suppressing Black Power organising in the English-speaking Caribbean, during the 60s and 70s. Loewe is creating paintings and drawings that unravel this history included in recently declassified Foreign & Commonwealth Office records. Their approach to painting speaks to their background in comics and illustration — combining text, image and sequential narrative. 

Exhibitions include Precarious, Art Exchange (2023); Unattributable Briefs: Act One, Staffordshire St. (2022); New Contemporaries, Humber Street Gallery and South London Gallery (2022); Back to Earth, Serpentine Gallery (2022); and NAE Open 22, New Art Exchange (2022). In 2023 Loewe will exhibit in the 12th Liverpool Biennial. 

Accessibility

Wheelchair Accessibility 
The venue is located on the ground floor of Somerset House and there is a ramp to access the main event space. There is also a fully accessible toilet. 

British Sign Language 
The event will be BSL interpreted on request of participants. Please contact visitor@somersethouse.org.uk by Friday 7 April to inform us of your request. 

Self-describing  
The lead workshop artist will self-describe. 

Seating  
There will be a variety of seating made available in the venue. These include cushions on the floor, foldable chairs without armrests and chairs with armrests and padded seats. 

Masks 
This is a masked event. We ask that you wear masks during your visit. Masks will also be supplied at the venue. 

Lateral Flow Testing
The artist asks that all participants take a lateral flow test ahead of the workshop. Please only attend if your test shows negative.

If you have any other access requirements, please let us know by emailing visitor@somersethouse.org.uk and we will do our best to accommodate them.