Family Takeover: Making With Myths

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Date 13 Jan/3 Feb 2024

Price Free

Join artist Emma Sheehy for a series of free hands-on family sessions using drawing, painting and sculpture to create art together.

This season our family takeover workshops will be led by artists exhibiting in New Contemporaries ‘23 at Camden Art Centre.

Emma Sheehy is an artist exploring mythology, craft and medieval imagery her wood carvings and sculptures offer an alternative, playful take on history. Emma leads this series of workshops that encourage children and parents to explore a range of processes and materials to create their own hybrid beings, abstracted animals and ceramic creatures.

These sessions are designed for adults and children working together, activities may be messy!

The programme is supported by a Cultural Education and Learning Support Fund from Camden Council.

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Using the exquisite corpse technique of drawing together participants will collaborate on hybrid creatures that unfold in bizarre and peculiar ways.

Inspired by ye olde paintings and tapestries participants will use air drying clay to sculpt their own mini-beasts and bowls.

Participants will use water, paint and ink to create swirling abstract pictures and finding forms and characters amongst the blobs.

Using air drying clay to recreate the Ancient art of relief making participants will create their own clay slabs marked with texture, drawing and pattern.

The Artist

Emma Sheehy creates imaginative spaces that are escapist, funny and folkloric. Often drawing on mythologies and medieval-inspired imagery, she builds up a collection of creatures to play with time and again, using this research as a means of understanding the past.