Drop-In Family Workshop
Come along to our atmospheric Weaving Shed to learn how to weave your own decorative coaster using recycled household materials. We will be making our own looms from recycled cardboard, and weaving using wool from Sunny Bank Mills’ very own SCRAP.
As a part of an ongoing heritage project partnered with Sunny Bank Mills, the workshop brings the industrial history of the weaving mill together with domestic, household weaving. You will leave the drop-in session with your very own bold, colourful coaster and the simple skills to make more at home!
Suitable for adults and families with children aged 5+
This is an open ended session with a max capacity at 12 people at a time. Each family will have the chance to create at least one coaster, but may be asked to wait for a spot during busy periods.
This session is Pay As You Feel - all proceeds will go towards supporting Alice's Berkofsky Award project.
About Alice
Alice Boot is an artist born in East Sussex, currently studying a BA in Fine Art at the University of Leeds. Their practice encompasses sculpture, drawing and installation as well as curating exhibitions and community-based projects.
Alice’s research is inspired by post-war Polish women’s sculpture, where they continue to reference their use of found and organic materials to produce complex fragmented forms. Their visual vocabulary often responds to the natural fibres and knots found in coastal environments, where the colossal sea forces the decay and transformation of objects.
