This will be the first year the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art opens its doors to the wider world with a Summer School based around Dr Simblet’s best selling book, Anatomy for the Artist, Dorling Kindersley.

Two non-residential courses will take place within the Drawing Studio and Old Masters’ Studio at 74 High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BG.  The fee is £750 per person and will be available to a maximum of 25 participants, so early booking is recommended. 


Each five-day course will cover aspects of human anatomy, its drawing and history.  Human anatomy will be explored through intensive workshops, lectures and group discussions. Participants should bring their own drawing materials and the Ruskin will provide easels, paper and life models.  There is no academic or artistic criteria required for attendance at either course. 
Participants can expect to leave this practical course with a portfolio of new work, a much wider understanding of this subject and a wealth of ideas for future artistic development.


To book a place on either of the courses below, please follow this link : https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=172&modid=5&compid=1


As these courses are both non-residential, do follow this link as a suggestion for finding nearby accommodation: http://www.oxfordrooms.co.uk/

Course Dates

Course One :  Friday 9th – Tuesday 13th September 2011

Course Two :  Monday 19th – Friday 23rd September 2011

Programme

Day One     :    Structural Drawing

Day Two     :    The Skeleton

Day Three   :    Modelling Musculature of the Head & Face

Day Four     :    Musculature

Day Five     :    Life Drawing

Course Teaching Staff

Dr Sarah Simblet
Sarah Simblet is an artist who writes and draws. She is also a broadcaster, lecturer and anatomist with broad research interests in the relationship between art, science and history. She has published three major art reference books with Dorling Kindersley: ‘Anatomy for the Artist’, ‘The Drawing Book’ and ‘Botany for the Artist’ and exhibits her drawings through her books. Sarah contributes to contemporary art shows, festivals and live events and her work is held in national and private collections. She contributes regularly to British, American and international television and radio programmes about science and art, and consults on national exhibitions. She is Tutor in Anatomy at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, a freelance lecturer at the National Gallery London, and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and is an academic member of Wolfson College, Oxford.
http://unitedagents.co.uk/sarah-simblet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/sep/25/arts.artsnews
http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780751334418,00.html

Professor Brian Catling

An academic, poet and contemporary artist who has had a life long fascination with the visualisation of human anatomy in everything from wood blocks to science fiction.  Brian is a Professor at the University of Oxford, on the teaching staff at the Ruskin and a Fellow at Linacre College.
http://briancatling.com/

Eleanor Crook

Eleanor Crook is one of the world’s leading anatomical modellers in wax: a contemporary artist who uses traditional and newly invented techniques to express and explain the drama of the human body.

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/explore/science—art/video.aspx