Course summary

This three-day course is designed to provide drawing and modelling tuition to assist the plastic surgeon to better understand the human form so as to improve the qualitative outcomes of reconstruction. The aim of the course is to be of direct value to pre and intra operative assessment, whilst developing a greater awareness of spatial relationships and contour of the human body. The evaluation of structure, form and asymmetry will be central to the focus of the course.

Through practical workshops and lectures, course participants will be introduced to a wide range of approaches which will further their observational and perceptual skills. Working between two and three dimensions exploration will deal with formal and aesthetic qualities and develop an alternative understanding of structure and form of the human form including the face and breast.

Life drawing from the model will allow the opportunity for drawing strategies to be applied to the body and the development of drawing skills.

Course tutors
Michael Esson D.A.(Edin)  M.A. (R.C.A.London), Director, International Drawing Research Institute, The University of New South Wales, Australia and Professor of Drawing, University of Lincoln. Mike is a world-leading reconstruction artist who has tutored plastic surgeons across Australia and New Zealand. Click on the link to see a video of Mike’s work.

Professor Michael Healey, senior academic and chair of art and design in the Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, Lincoln. Member of the Drawing Research Group at Lincoln. Michael is a practising artist and involved in teaching across disciplines. Michael has had several solo shows of his artworks nationally and internationally.

Venue
The venue is set in the heart of one of the most historic cathedral cities in Europe, Lincoln

The Greestone Building, University of Lincoln, Lindum Road, Lincoln. LN2 1PF

Course fee
£475: The course fee includes all materials, refreshments and lunch. Accommodation must be booked separately. We recommend accommodation close to Lincoln Cathedral such as the Lincoln Hotel, The Old Bakery or the White Hart Hotel.

To register and pay please click here
For further information please contact Prof. Michael Healey

Due to the practical nature of the course places will be limited.

Download the short course flyer Art of Reconstruction, Lincoln June 2013