Date and Time: Wednesday 27 November 2024, 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 award-winning sustainable textile artist Alice Burnhope. Using a mix of natural pigments, you’ll have a chance to ‘make first’ using colour, paper and textiles.
Alice’s work blends sustainability with creativity and play to create immersive experiences. Her approach taps into our primal needs for touch, comfort, and a connection to the natural world. You’ll use a range of natural materials to bring colour to your work. Take part for your own enrichment, while also learning how to use your new-found skills to support classroom learning.
Detail of activity
From salvaging onion skins to using naturally occurring pigments, you’ll explore colour in this hands-on workshop. You’ll have a chance to apply Crafts Council’s Make First pedagogy: diving straight into making and using materials to develop your ideas. You’ll then work with Alice to try the different dyeing and colouring techniques she uses in her work.
Participants will make use of a range of pigments in the workshop but will also have the option of bringing along some everyday ingredients and materials that you might already have at home. We’ll provide a list in advance of the workshop but there will be plenty of materials provided, just in case.
