Instructor: Sukaina Kubba
Sukaina Kubba is an Iraqi-Canadian artist who has worked and exhibited in Canada and the UK. Recent exhibitions include: HERE, at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, 2017-2018; Peaks at Glasgow Project Room, 2016; Double Blind at Intermedia Gallery at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 2016; As You Were at Glasgow International 2016; WORK OUT a project at Hilary Crisp, London, UK, 2014; and Pavor Nocturnus at Kendall Koppe Gallery, Glasgow. Kubba was a lecturer and curator at the Glasgow School of Art from 2013 to 2018, until her recent relocation to Montreal. She taught in Undergraduate Painting and Printmaking, the Master in Research in Creative Practices and the MLitt in Fine Art Practice. In 2014 and 2015 she was Programme Coordinator, and Curator of the Phoenix Bursary at the Glasgow School of Art, an extensive project and exhibition that supported the cohort of the 2014 graduating Fine Art class after the first Mackintosh fire. Kubba has conducted many multi-disciplinary workshops at the GSA, and at other locations such as the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow. Kubba is currently Artist-in-Residence at the Fisch Haus, Wichita, where she is completing a six week residency. Objects of Adornment is a workshop that explores techniques of recording, digitization, image manipulation and printing that I use in both my artistic and publication work. We will use bed-scanners, phone cameras, drawings and writing (both hand-written and typed) to weave together stories related to personal objects. What you need to prepare: Objects of adornment: Nylon stockings, lipstick and other make up, scarves, jewellery and any other personal or domestic objects you would like to document. You don't have to have a story ready, but if you do, you can think about it beforehand and we can write it up together. If you are more comfortable with just making images, that's ok too. No previous knowledge or skills are required for this workshop Final outcome: The images and texts we make together during the workshop will be used to make a publication that will be available for all the workshop participants at the end of March, to be picked up from the Fisch Haus or MakeICT