What you’ll do
Join artist Andrea Mindel for a workshop about artistic practice, mental health and materials from everyday life.
Before diving into hands-on activities, discover our archive(view in catalogue) of scrapbooks, sketchbooks and notebooks that document the life and work of artist Audrey Amiss.
You’ll explore the relationship between artistic practice and creativity and how it can serve as a tool in managing mental and physical health and 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 home and continue developing.
All the art materials you need 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, so you can 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 works (20 minutes).
- Practice different artistic techniques and experiment with everyday materials – paper, foil and plastic scraps – to make connections and begin to tell your story (40 minutes).
- Break (20 minutes).
- Create a visual diary inspired by Audrey’s artistic practice using pastel, watercolour, fabric and embroidery artworks that represent your workshop environment (2 hours).
