Date and Time: Wednesday 12 February 2025, 5pm - 7pm.
Venue: Crafts Council Gallery, 44a Pentonville Road, London N1 9BY (map).
Suitable for: All school staff.
Description of session
Come and join us in the Crafts Council Gallery for a fun and relaxed evening with collage artist Liaqat Rasul. You’ll work with a mix of old papers, recycled materials and plastics, using a variety of meditative and responsive approaches.
Liaqat works with paper for its intrinsic and functional qualities, creating collages that combine ephemera, mark making, and stitching. Work spontaneously with Liaqat and develop your own approaches to collage that you can use to support classroom learning.
Detail of activity
In this session you’ll learn a variety of responsive and quick-thinking exercises that will get you pleating, scrunching, wrapping, and layering materials. You’ll develop your practical making skills, building and embellishing your collage with a range of techniques with a focus on creating a landscape collage to take home with you.
During the session you’ll have a chance to apply Crafts Council’s Make First Pedagogy: dive straight into making and learn how makers respond to materials and their properties to create new works. The workshop will explore ideas around sustainable craft, making use of recycled materials in a way that is easily replicated in the classroom.
