Workshop Offerings
Below, you will find a selection of example workshops and additional information. The workshops typically last between 1.5-4 hours, but this can vary depending on your needs and they can be adapted to fit the age group and level of experience. I am happy to design workshops to suit your needs. Please contact me for further info and pricing.
Shifting Shapes
In this workshop, dance and sculpture meet towards engaging the body and exploring the senses. With a focus on shape, colour and space, participants will alternate between exploratory dance activities and collaboratively building sculptures using colourful cardboard shapes. We will collectively play with and explore the shapes created by our moving bodies and the shapes created by the sculptural installation. While being mindful and tuning into our bodies in the space, we will respond through movement to the shifting ‘shape-scape’ of the room.
Pushing the Limits of Paper
This workshop investigates the potential of paper for 3D applications through various design techniques. Through crumpling, folding, moulding, scoring, ripping and treating paper, we will push the limits of paper to create interesting sculptural works with the simplest of materials.
What the Sculpture Does. . .
This workshop explores form, scale and space through creating human-sized freestanding sculptures. Using geometric and organic shapes created with coloured cardboard, we will collaboratively build large sculptures to look closely at the spatial relationships of the forms. We will see to activate our simple materials and transform our sheet material from flat shapes to activated forms that curve, bend, fold, collide, collapse, intersect. . .
Is it a sculpture, or is it a book?
In this workshop, sculpture, text and collage meet to create experimental book-forms. We will learn to make two foldable book-forms before adding colour, collage and words to make dynamic, expressive artist’s book forms. In exploring the relationships between word, colour and form, we will investigate possibilities of different visual languages at play in an artist’s book.
Wonder and Connection: Drawing Together
In this collaborative drawing workshop, we will focus our senses while connecting with another person. Channeling a sense of wonder and curiosity, we will rely on touch and sight to together make exploratory drawings. These mark-making experiments will lead into collaborative collaging. Body language, sensory engagement and collective discovery all come into play in this workshop.
Word and Image: Colour, Space and Abstraction
In this collage workshop, we will delve into the relationship between word and image. Using a variety fo materials and approaches, we will seek to create dynamic visual conversations between word, colour, shape, line and texture. The following themes are available for this highly adaptable and engaging workshop: Nature (using plant materials, pressed flowers and other things found in nature), Body (exploring interpretations of the body and sensory experiences), Discarded (using found materials from recycling and rubbish bins).
Construct, Re-construct
Exploring space, colour and found objects, this workshop facilitates collaborative sculpture constructing using found objects and discarded materials. This activity challenges the participants to see the creative possibilities of everyday objects through collaboratively constructing and re-constructing sculptures. Objects and materials will be placed, perched and balanced to form the sculptures to allow a sense of precarity, weight and gravity to play a role in the works.
Drawing: A Creative Tool
This professional development workshop was developed to empower teachers of any subject to utilise drawing as a creative tool for learning. The workshop does not require any previous experience, and it introduces participants to a broad variety of approaches to drawing, from observational to abstract methods. It fosters discussion to harness the possibilities of the visual language and process of drawing as pedagogical tool.