Collaborative banner making workshop - Bring your scraps

Extending the ideas explored in A Tool for Conversation, this collaborative workshop invites the group to create a hybrid object - one that is part protest banner, part seaside peep-through scene.

Working collectively across four making stations BACKGROUND, FOREGROUND, TEXT and CHANT, people can choose to focus on a single element or move between each activity. Through assembling, stitching, writing and improvising together, the workshop explores how messages are constructed, shared and held collectively.

Using repurposed textiles and foraged materials from previous projects, the workshop encourages participants to consider not only what they want to communicate, but also the ecological and social impact of the materials and processes used to make it.

The workshop creates space for playful experimentation and collective authorship and asks how acts of making might also become acts of care, resistance and imagining healthier futures together.

About the artist

Denise Hickey is an artist, educator and researcher based on the London/Essex border, predominately working with textile, cultivating performative objects and installations. Her practice is rooted in the immediacy of materials and the knowledge carried by them that are exposed through hands: stitching, tying, layering, repeating, passing, holding, tearing, repairing. She uses foraged material exploring how materials of place hold time, labour and memory. Denise is currently a PhD student researching The Materiality of Meaning Making in Gallery Learning, a collaborative doctoral partnership between The National Gallery and Goldsmiths.