A trip to your happy place: writing and art-making workshop
Take a trip to your happy place through writing, drawing and collage with artists Sena Başöz and Ülgen Semerci, engaging with your internal landscape through the means of art.
In the first part of the workshop, participants will be guided through a writing prompt about a favourite place. Your descriptions will then be interpreted as quick drawings by other participants.
The second part of the workshop is dedicated to creating an image of your happy place. In this process, the drawings will serve as inspiration and/or material.
The workshop is based on dialogue and feedback. While you will go through an internal quest and visualise your own happy place, you are also guided by the artists to create a unique piece of artwork. You will be introduced to collage and ink techniques and will receive feedback on your composition. Most importantly, you will get a feeling of the process of art making that is a constant dialectic between the already existing and the new.
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Sena Basoz is an artist working across multiple media whose works investigate themes of healing, exploring ways to interact with what is considered out of reach, and experimentally regenerating what is perceived as frozen, dead, stale, or lost. She often works with archives as the only tangible material that bridges life and death.
Her most recent work delves into the body as an archive and movement as a tool for regeneration. Başöz received her BA in Economics from Boğaziçi University in 2002 and her MFA in Film and Video from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2010.
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Istanbul born, London based artist Ulgen Semerci received her BFA in painting & drawing from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada and her MFA in painting at New York Studio School, USA. Ulgen’s practice is rooted in ecology and psychoanalysis. She works across drawing, painting and installation. She believes artworks, much like selves, are constructed in and through relationships. Her landscapes are an ecology of the inner world, open-ended narratives that take shape in relation to others.
Her selected exhibitions include; Enfolded Journeys, The Leeds Library, 2025, Asia Now, Paris, France 2023, Bag, Pedestal, Rabbit, Potato, Staffordshire St Gallery, London, 2022, Do I Contradict Myselves? ArtOn Istanbul 2022, Fugue, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara 2019, BAHAR, Sharjah Biennial 13, Istanbul 2017, 35/25, The Painting Center, New York, NY.
