Saturday 13 April Workshop Steeple Studios 67 High Street Newburgh Fife. 1pm-3.30pm £30 Sunday 21 April The Haven Restaurant, Cellardyke Artist Talk & Demo 2pm-3pm (free - linked to Gallery 495 Exhibition) Monday 6 May Workshop The Steeple Studios 67 High Street Newburgh Fife. 1pm- 3.30pm £30
Workshops Join me to find out more about working creatively with seaweed. The workshop is about using it as a material for mixed media art - challenges and techniques. We’ll look at fresh samples but as processes take time I’ll have some already prepared to work with as well. We will learn how best to prepare them - drying pressing sealing. We will make postcard sized artworks such mounted collage, greeting cards, mini concertina books or framed under glass piece. It’s about experimenting and playing! No experience required and materials provided. Not recommended if you have seafood allergies. . Email me to book or go to Eventbrite
Why Seaweed? Seaweed is so much more than a resource we can break down into its many exploitable parts for our benefit. It is one of the millions of companion co-species with which we share the planet and which contribute to the health of the planet - and therefore to us. Inspired by the concepts 'collaborative survival' (Anna Tsing) and 'kinship' (Donna Haraway), I combine washed up seaweed with other waste materials in an 'intricate interplay' (Nan Shepherd). I aim to highlight interdependency between human and non-human and offer a different way of experiencing seaweed and our relationship to the world.
Thanks to prize money from the Centre for Entrepreneurship Dundee (2022), I set up seaweed design business called TANG (an old Scots word for seaweed). There is a separate website here - www.tangscot.com