Eight-Week Art Writing
Practice| By Benjamin Jenner

Through seminars, writing exercises, discussion, instruction and critique, this course will support you to develop and/or expand a writing practice in relation to the spatial, structural and material qualities of art work.

Course details

Dates

Tuesday 22 April - 15 July 2026

Times

5:00 pM - 8:00 PM

Cohort size

Up to 10 places

Fees

£295

Location

The Margate School of Art

Duration

8 sessions running over a 13-week period

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Overview

In this course, students will explore techniques for generating textual material that employ the pragmatic processes of thinking-through-doing common to the creation of artwork and the trappings of art work. Through practical writing tasks, seminar discussion, the sharing of work, and tailored feedback, students will be supported to produce a textual artefact in a writing form of their choice.

This course is open to anybody with an interest in the relationship between art and writing, text and image, thought and action who wants to push their practice or learn new ideas and techniques. The course involves group discussion and some collaborative writing tasks.
By the end of the course, students will have:

Contributed to conversation on the key themes of the course.

Engaged with key theories and texts from Performance Studies, Art Writing, and Literary Theory.

Co-created a text.

Produced a final writing artefact (e.g. a book, a narrative, a poem or series)

Developed new writing and visual art skills and techniques; expended their practice or started a new one.
Students at The Margate School of Art benefit from:

Group and individual tuition and feedback

10% off at TMS’s cafe, ‘Coastal Art Coffee’
Students will need to bring a laptop and other writing and drawing materials.

Course tutor

Benjamin Jenner Through a variety of movement practices (walking, blindfolded exploration, cycling) explores how reflective thinking is altered by moving between places. They are interested in the challenge movement poses to the positionality of the writing subject and the precarity of their authorial voice, charged as it is with shoring up a constantly shifting position in a changing perceptual field. How this voice interfaces with other media (drawing, photography, audio recording, citations, book arts) is considered a question for performance, and is often shared through guided walks, performative presentations, and workshops.

Benjamin studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art (BA) and The Slade School of Art (MFA). In 2024 they completed a practice based PhD at the University of Leeds that employed an action research methodology to explore the relationship between non-visuality and textual forms of subjectivity. They collaborate and exhibit with a number of groups including Drawing as Slow Conversation and Words as Matter.