The Auzoux Project

The Auzoux Project

with artist Anna Brownsted

Join artist Anna Brownsted and the Whipple Museum for the second and final hands-on creative workshop inspired by Dr Louis Auzoux’s remarkable papier-mâché teaching models. You don’t need to have attended the first workshop to take part.

Following the success of the first session, this workshop continues the same collaborative format, inviting participants to create new paper forms that will become part of an evolving installation in the Upper Gallery—gradually transforming the Victorian Parlour.

This workshop is suitable for ages 16+.

Funded by UCM/ACE Collections in Action

Workshop 2

Saturday 21 February, 12–3.30pm

In this session, participants will work together to create small and miniature mushroom forms, expanding the growing mycelium-inspired installation begun in the first workshop. Using simple, everyday materials—newsprint, glue, and imagination—you will explore papier-mâché techniques that echo Dr Auzoux’s own methods. These smaller-scale works will add detail, density, and texture to the installation.

What to expect

• Welcome and introduction to the project
• Creative warm-up activity
• Guided making session focused on small-scale form-making

Works made during the session will be left to dry at the Whipple. Anna will later add colour and finish the sculptures in her studio before installing them in the gallery.

Late Opening & Exhibition Launch

Thursday 26 March, 2026

A celebratory late opening where participants’ papier-mâché works are revealed as a final installation in the Whipple Museum. Artist Anna Brownsted invites audiences to explore the sculptures, reanimating Auzoux’s legacy through contemporary creative practice.