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WORKSHOPS
Breakfast Art Club
Bounce festival, 2023 A mixed media, accessible workshop incorporating wax resist and ink drawing and marbling techniques.
Body Shining
University of Atypical 2023
Body Acceptance workshop making paper crown and costumes and developing compliments that avoid commenting on the body
Body Acceptance workshop making paper crown and costumes and developing compliments that avoid commenting on the body
Body Shining
University of Atypical, 2022.
Developing workshops for youth leaders in relation to mitigating body shaming. The first workshops took place in Bari, Italy with subsequent workshops in Belfast with a variety of youth groups.
Developing workshops for youth leaders in relation to mitigating body shaming. The first workshops took place in Bari, Italy with subsequent workshops in Belfast with a variety of youth groups.
Staff Day Out
University of Atypical, April 2022.
The first workshop since restrictions lifted was an invitation to run a staff workshop for the workforce of the University of Atypical at the Dunadry Hotel, Antrim. Working with participants with different background, abilities and experience, everyone made a unique character and they all survived the kiln.
The first workshop since restrictions lifted was an invitation to run a staff workshop for the workforce of the University of Atypical at the Dunadry Hotel, Antrim. Working with participants with different background, abilities and experience, everyone made a unique character and they all survived the kiln.
Home School Gallery Day
R-Space Gallery, October 2019.
Funded by L.C.C.C and hosted in R-Space Gallery, Lisburn, this programme of workshops ran in conjunction with the exhibition of art works selected from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Art Collection. The participants of the workshops were all home schooled and the gallery was filled with giggles and squiggles by the toddlers at one end of te gallery while the older children worked with collage and drawing one week and ceramics the following week.
Funded by L.C.C.C and hosted in R-Space Gallery, Lisburn, this programme of workshops ran in conjunction with the exhibition of art works selected from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Art Collection. The participants of the workshops were all home schooled and the gallery was filled with giggles and squiggles by the toddlers at one end of te gallery while the older children worked with collage and drawing one week and ceramics the following week.
Allhallows Beginner Ceramic Workshop
R-Space, Lisburn, 2019. Ceramic workshop making spider and web tealight candle holders. This was a simple workshop and everyone created fun spider characters that were fired and ready in time for Halloween.
Photo Lithographic Print
R-Space Gallery, 2019.
Workshops introducing participants to the method of using photocopied images to make mono-prints on clay tiles. Each person rolled and cut their own ceramic tiles and prepared the images for printing, inking up and burnishing the image to the clay.
Workshops introducing participants to the method of using photocopied images to make mono-prints on clay tiles. Each person rolled and cut their own ceramic tiles and prepared the images for printing, inking up and burnishing the image to the clay.
Bits and Bobs
R-Space Gallery, 2019.
One person’s rubbish is another’s treasure! This workshop is an upcycling session where we will be creating sculptural 3D pictures using those odd items that you collect in the home or garage ‘just in case’. For this workshop we want you to rummage through that 2nd drawer down in the kitchen and bring in the random small objects that don’t fit anywhere else.
You can create a landscape or figure, or go totally abstract in this workshop, securing these objects and shapes on a background and applying different painting techniques to create original pieces of art.
Example of the sort of thing we can use are buttons, washers, bits of plastic, leads, nuts and bolts, springs, grips and clips, string, seeds, old broken costume jewellery…..
One person’s rubbish is another’s treasure! This workshop is an upcycling session where we will be creating sculptural 3D pictures using those odd items that you collect in the home or garage ‘just in case’. For this workshop we want you to rummage through that 2nd drawer down in the kitchen and bring in the random small objects that don’t fit anywhere else.
You can create a landscape or figure, or go totally abstract in this workshop, securing these objects and shapes on a background and applying different painting techniques to create original pieces of art.
Example of the sort of thing we can use are buttons, washers, bits of plastic, leads, nuts and bolts, springs, grips and clips, string, seeds, old broken costume jewellery…..
Baby Steps, ceramic workshop
R-Space Gallery, 2019.
From childhood Zara has had an interest in shoes, borrowing her mum’s for dressing up and then amassing an extensive collection from her teens until now. Our first steps are anticipated with excitement by parents, the start of our journey to independence.
In this workshop you will hand build a pair of children’s shoes. The process will include choosing a template, rolling and cutting the clay to size. Then you will ‘cobble’ your pieces together and, using colour, tools and oxides, design your very own pair. They can be made for cabinet display or to hang from a ribbon.
When the clay shoes have dried they will fired in the kiln, and become a treasured reminder of childhood and how important it is to make some time for yourself to ‘play’.
The processes involved will include slab building, score and slip, undergazing, sgraffito and or stamping.
From childhood Zara has had an interest in shoes, borrowing her mum’s for dressing up and then amassing an extensive collection from her teens until now. Our first steps are anticipated with excitement by parents, the start of our journey to independence.
In this workshop you will hand build a pair of children’s shoes. The process will include choosing a template, rolling and cutting the clay to size. Then you will ‘cobble’ your pieces together and, using colour, tools and oxides, design your very own pair. They can be made for cabinet display or to hang from a ribbon.
When the clay shoes have dried they will fired in the kiln, and become a treasured reminder of childhood and how important it is to make some time for yourself to ‘play’.
The processes involved will include slab building, score and slip, undergazing, sgraffito and or stamping.
St Patrick Workshop
R-Space Gallery, 2019.
A ceramics workshop creating porcelain crosses and St Patrick figures.
A ceramics workshop creating porcelain crosses and St Patrick figures.
Papermaking Workshop
R-Space Gallery, 2019.
In this workshop you will get the chance to have a go at each stage of this up-cycling paper making process. Using shredded paper, you will be preparing a paper pulp, choosing additional materials to add to your paper and make paper with different textures.
Different sizes of frames and deckles, the tools used to filter the paper pulp, will be provided so you can experiment with size, shape and pattern.
Different materials can be added to the mix to add embellishment to the paper such as flower petals, pineapple (crushed!), old paper holiday money, threads and fibres.
We will also be making textured paper as well as flat sheets.
If you have anything you would like to try and include in your paper making please bring it along. There will be petals and fibres provided.
In this workshop you will get the chance to have a go at each stage of this up-cycling paper making process. Using shredded paper, you will be preparing a paper pulp, choosing additional materials to add to your paper and make paper with different textures.
Different sizes of frames and deckles, the tools used to filter the paper pulp, will be provided so you can experiment with size, shape and pattern.
Different materials can be added to the mix to add embellishment to the paper such as flower petals, pineapple (crushed!), old paper holiday money, threads and fibres.
We will also be making textured paper as well as flat sheets.
If you have anything you would like to try and include in your paper making please bring it along. There will be petals and fibres provided.
Spring Critters
R-Space Gallery, 2019.
In this workshop participants will learn basic pinch pot making skills. Suitable for beginners, everyone will make their pots, learn how to join them and shape them in to their own unique hedgehog character.
Underglazes will be provided to bring their characters to life with colour.
Clay and tools provided in the relaxed and friendly atmosphere of R-Space Gallery and beginners are most welcome.
In this workshop participants will learn basic pinch pot making skills. Suitable for beginners, everyone will make their pots, learn how to join them and shape them in to their own unique hedgehog character.
Underglazes will be provided to bring their characters to life with colour.
Clay and tools provided in the relaxed and friendly atmosphere of R-Space Gallery and beginners are most welcome.
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