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Drawing In Desire: the Alchemy of the Impulse

Starts 4 October 2025 | 5 Weeks | Saturdays | Online
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Never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.
Matsuo Bashō
“Drawing-in-Desire; The Alchemy of the Impulse” is a unique opportunity to encounter the artist’s intimate process of thinking and making. Located both online and in the artist’s studio, this bespoke series of process-as-practice sessions aims at unlocking the “stuck self” and finding what’s unique to you in a process of metaphorically “drawing beyond your imagined lines.

”Reflecting her desire to embody a full and enlivened existence through the practice of the artist’s process, the interdisciplinary artist, Sue Pam-Grant – with an honorary Doctorate in Psycho-Social Intervention – creates a uniquely relational experience as she leads this bespoke and curated course – live, participative, intimate – and designed to engage creative thinkers across all disciplines.

In a vital, live and invigorated experience that happens over a three-hour period, each Masterclass Encounter provides practical process tools that enable participants to manifest, activate and actualise their unique understanding of the creative impulse and bring the “elusive idea” into fruition.

This is an opportunity to invest in the self, activate “the Alchemy of the Impulse” and “Draw-in-Desire”, beyond your imagined lines.

Programme Outline and Modules

Drawing-in-Desire; The Alchemy of the Impulse
Masterclass Encounter in 4 Parts

  •  Part 1 — Tracking & Tracing
  •  Part 2 — Mining & Mapping
  •  Part 3 — (In)Transit; The Stowaway
  •  Part 4 — Personage Assemblage
  •  Part 5 — Reflections
Our passing through this earth is so absurd and fleeting, that it calms me to know that I have been authentic; that I have managed to be more like myself as much as I could.
Frida Khalo 

Programme Details & Structure

DURATION: 5 weeks
START DATE: Saturday 4th October 2025
REGISTRATION CLOSES: 3rd October 2025
FEE: $250

Presentation Times

  • Live workshops (on Zoom) take place on Saturdays at 5:00 PM London / 12:00 PM New York
  • Workshops are 180 minutes (including a 20 minute mid-session break)
  • All sessions are recorded for anyone unable to attend live

Registration

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About the Artist

Dr. Sue Pam-Grant is a practising transdisciplinary artist, curator, writer, director and performer/actor. She is represented by Axis Gallery, Manhattan, New York. She has an honorary Doctorate in Psychosocial Intervention and a Master’s degree in Fine Art (with distinction) in transdisciplinary drawing as an expanded drawing practice, with a particular lens in the psychoanalytic field of uncovering the authentic self through the creative process of manifesting and making. She has been practising in her distinct field for the past twenty-five years.
Hurrying, hurrying – for the knowledge of life… No, not that- for a knowledge of aliveness.
Susan Sontag
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Testimonials

This is truly a Master Class. It starts with Master Sue guiding the participants to complete a series of exploratory and artistic tasks, but as you follow the instructions and complete one task after another, you go on a journey of self-discovery and self-expression. At the end of the journey, you realize that not only you have created amazing artwork, but that you have transformed to have become the Master of your own creative expressions. Utimate training school makes it really simple for people to reach their full potential and deliver their message in a practical way.
- Tian Chen, Anthropologist and art curator

To be direct and frank, which surely is the only way to be. I am not a sentimentalist. I don't suffer fools gladly. I almost never participate in any process work. And my relationship with process work, such as this Drawing in Desire Masterclass, is challenged by the fact that I due process work professionally. It's a bit like being a thespian. It changes your phenomenological/experiential relation with theatre. This rarely leads to a richer experience of the art. It certainly robs one of the innocent pleasure one experiences when first encountering the art form.My detractors - who are legion - may even argue that I am a misanthrope.  

The above said. I am genuinely humbled, grateful, and inspired by the process we went through together. I felt a connection to you all night that reminded me of my own humanity.I am profoundly stimulated by the work we did and by my own work and process.Sue your genius and passion for this work and its delivery are apparent, abundant, and a tremendous gift to have received. I am in your debt, and at the risk of presumption, I believe we all are.

Thank you,

Stephen Anthony Farah
Head of Learning
The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies

Sue’s workshops were intensely personal explorations which I feel ill-equipped toput down in words, although these do come to mind:recount, discover, explore, react, accept, embrace, rethinkHer process disabled my inhibition and I felt free to be messily creative and expressive.It was immersive, instinctive and completely addictive.There’s not a person I know who I wouldn’t recommend these workshops to.Utimate training school makes it really simple for people to reach their full potential and deliver their message in a practical way.
- Roy Hunter - Producer at Cape Town Opera