What you’ll do
Join artist Andrea Mindel for a workshop about artistic practice, mental health and materials from everyday life.
Inspired by ‘Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions’, the session looks at the relationship between artistic practice and creativity, and how it can serve as a tool in managing mental and physical wellbeing.
Andrea will introduce ideas, guide conversations and support you through practical exercises to reflect on everyday life in your own artistic practice. You’ll create a fabric collage and visual diary to take away and continue developing.
All materials will be provided. Before the workshop, we invite you to collect receipts, notes, wrappers, pamphlets and fabric scraps from your daily life to bring along.
This is a relaxed event, and you're welcome to move around during the session. There will be a quieter room for crafting, as well as a Chill-Out Room with low lighting, comfortable seating, cushions, mats, ear defenders, earplugs and sensory toys.
What to expect
- Introduction to Audrey Amiss’s life and work, and our collection of her work (20 minutes)
- Try different artistic techniques and experiment with everyday materials – paper, foil and plastic scraps – to make connections and begin telling your story (40 minutes)
- Break (20 minutes)
- Create a visual diary inspired by Audrey’s artistic practice using fabric and thread (2 hours)
