Name: Memory Art Workshop
Start: 2022-09-30T16:30:00+01:00
End: 2022-09-30T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Madelvic House

Memory Art Workshop

The Walk Club, Edinburgh and other walking activities take place in North Edinburgh and elsewhere. Covering a wide variety of subjects and themes, the Walk Club is a brand-new Edinburgh walking / wheeling club offering ambulatory meet-ups that focus on local history, art, and urban nature ~ with a twist ~ Each walk will have a theme and celebrate events such as the Festival of Terminalia, the Urban Tree Festival, May Day, and the Autumn Equinox. The walks will be stimulating and the company friendly. Fresh air and gentle exercise are promised, whether you are on wheels or feet, and the Walk Club is open to everyone. Children and dogs are welcome. The aim is to be accessible, inclusive, and flexible.Moving slowly through the urban landscape allows for higher quality noticing and time to pay attention. Pauses are important so we can look, smell, and discover. We will embrace community, as well as silence and conversation.With experience in the arts and community settings, I offer walks (ecological, history and psychogeography, for example) in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Europe. They are participatory, safe and inclusive. I also run workshops in venues such as Edinburgh Central Library and for festivals such as the Festival of Terminalia.

Tamsin

Madelvic House

This Memory Art Workshop will take place at Granton Hub. It comes after, and is connected to, the Memory Walkshop (see separate event) and will begin with group reflection and discussion about your experiences and feelings, including from the Walkshop, if attended. It is part of the Re:living Weekend, a response to our human need to talk, walk, remember, and make art about the ever-present experiences of death, grief and loss in our lives. Whether we are grieving for a close friend, pet or family member; concerned about the loss of bird, insect or plant habitats and other changes to our climate; affected by war; or managing on-going / one-off life events around relationship, work and/or home loss, coming together with others to focus, share, or simply be with our feelings is supportive. If you are not attending the walkshop, you are invited to bring an object (or image) that speaks to you of absence and/or loss, to help channel thoughts and memories and to share during the workshop. During the Workshop, participants will be asked to witness and listen to each other, and are encouraged to share and talk about the drawings / photographs / sounds / writing that they made during the Walkshop if attended. This is not a critique, and we do not expect participants to have any previous art and design experience or qualification. Following this discussion, you will be invited to draw / write / record / photograph in response to your own and / or others&#x27; work and shared experiences. Transformation is a key element in this Workshop - making new multi-layered works that materialise grief through transformation of images, words, sounds etc. Participants will create new works, using simple monoprint and collage techniques, that will be layered to form new composite works that will be exhibited at Granton Hub on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October. All materials will be provided.Please note that there will be a half-hour break inside the granton:hub for those attending both the Walkshop and Workshop for refreshments (provided, though contributions gratefully received). If you are attending the workshop only, you are welcome to come early for a cup of tea and a cake!Workshop leaders: Bea Denton (London) and Tamsin Grainger (Granton)Bea is an artist and educator whose practice explores ideas around death and loss, faith and ritual. Photography, printmaking, found materials and lost images are intrinsic to her creative process. She graduated from UAL with Distinction in MA Fine Art Printmaking, and has exhibited widely, including publicly-sited work. She won the 2009 Creekside Open prize selected by Jenni Lomax; the 2007 Deptford X MacDonald Egan Award for Public Art, and the 2002 Ardizzone Prize (Major) for Printmaking. She has taught and managed courses at Arts University Bournemouth, UAL (Camberwell, London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins), at EBAC in Brazil and Artslink in China. She is a Trustee for Lewisham Education Arts Network (LEAN) and a member of the Artist’s Group, Throes of Grief.Tamsin is a community artist (No Birds Land, Trinity Tunnel; The Wall, Western Breakwater), complementary therapy practitioner, session leader, and author of Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice (published by Singing Dragon Press).

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