Active Looking

In what ways can we enhance our experience of looking at art?

Using drawing, movement and discussion, director Natasha Freedman and artist Viyki Turnbull will offer you fresh perspectives on understanding paintings.

Come in comfortable clothes and be prepared to move. Suitable for anyone with a playful curiosity.

Natasha Freedman and Viyki Turnbull

Natasha Freedman and Viyki Turnbull have collaborated on several projects for the National Gallery, the Royal College of Art, the National Film and Television School and Norwegian Film School.

Viyki Turnbull is a practising artist whose work is the product of a close observation of everyday life. She has regularly exhibited across the UK including at the Atkinson Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. She works as both an artist and lecturer specialising in drawing at the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Natasha Freedman is a producer/director. She has led workshops for the National Gallery for 8 years, focusing on detailed observation of the movement and narratives of the body in space and in the frame, investigating the relationships between form, the body, colour and space. She has worked with Complicite, École Jacques Lecoq’s Le Laboratoire d’Etude du Mouvement, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Mosaic Rooms.

Image above: Detail from Sebastiano del Piombo, The Raising of Lazarus, about 1517-19