About Masterclass: sound and sketch with Joseph Young

Masterclass: Saturday 19 October 2024, 10.30am - 3.30pm

Join artist Joseph Young for this masterclass that will take you into the world of sound. You will have the opportunity to make creative responses through sketching.

Joseph will guide you on a mindful, meditative walk through the Watts Gallery woodland to observe the varied soundscape. Getting outside and making recordings will make up a fascinating day of sketching and listening.

Photo of Joseph Young in front of a furnace recording the sound

About the artist

Joseph Young is an artist working in sound, performance and installation. His practice explores the hidden semiotics of the global soundscape and investigates notions of critical heritage from a sonic perspective.

Joseph has performed and exhibited in the UK at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum and internationally in New York, Seoul and Berlin. Joseph recently completed a practice-based PhD at SMARTlab University College Dublin, supported by Irish Research Council. He was artist-in-residence at Killruddery House & Gardens, Co. Wicklow Ireland, where he produced a hauntological soundtrail The Ancestors in response to their historic archives.

Edges

Produced by artist-curators Kay Aplin and Joseph Young of The Ceramic House, Edges is a ceramics and sound art collaborative project involving artists from three nations at the western and eastern edges of Europe.

Edges will develop ideas of exchange, what it means to work at the edge of something, to be on the fringes. ‘Edges’ also expands on positive concepts of materiality, understanding artistic practice as a so-called ‘cutting edge’, where boundaries are pushed back, and frontiers explored.

As an artist couple / collaborative partnership, Kay and Joseph were Artists’ in Residence at Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village in 2023 where they explored the legacy of G F and Mary Watts as well as the ceramic tradition of Compton Pottery through a number of different artistic strategies. Their base at The Ceramic House also provided an analogy to Limnerslease with their pop-up gallery, events and performances programme and artistic residency programme set within a unique artist’s home.

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