Workshops & Talks Sunday 25 August 2pm-4pm Workshop, Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther Join me to learn how to work creatively with seaweed. We will use it as a material for mixed media art - challenges and techniques. We will learn how to prepare samples - drying, pressing and 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! And we'll talk about how to use it in the garden, in the kitchen and even in the bath! No experience required and materials provided. Not recommended if you have seafood allergies. £25. Contact me to find out more.
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