WORKSHOP: Journey to Power with Willem van Genk

Join us for this creative workshop run by one of the artist-curators of the exhibition 'Maps and Minds: A Journey with Willem van Genk'.

Having explored Van Genk’s work for 15 weeks as part of the Step Up training courses, Julia Fry explores the misuse of power that Van Genk experienced and invites you to set an intention and reclaim your personal power through this creative workshop. Experimenting with shamanic drumming, collage and mixed media intentional creation, you will be able to take this journey to power.

Once you sign up for the workshop, you will be sent a materials pack which includes some inspiration for your own collage power totem. Please register for the event by 18 July to receive your pack in time for the workshop.

Please also feel free to bring along scissors, glue, tapes, paints, pastels, carboard boxes and found objects that you might like to repurpose.

Julia Fry is a multi-disciplinary artist, with a fascination for detail and layering, which shows up across all the mediums she works with: film, drawing, painting, sculpting, mixed media and interactive events. Themes in Julia’s work are power / powerlessness and the othering that can occur from these. She expresses the tensions and beauty to be found in the dynamics of these opposites, which matches those found in nature and cosmology. Julia’s special interests in shamanism and psychotherapy feed into these themes.

Julia loves dots, lines and blending. She adores repetition, which is shamanic by nature, just like the beat of a shamanic drum that takes the listener on a journey inside themselves to the hidden spaces that expand. There’s beauty in the awareness that comes from a meditative trance process in the build-up of layers of paint and the surrender of mind control.

To find out more about Julia's practices, you can view her artist gallery.

You can view the exhibition about Willem van Genk on our website here until the 31 July.

Access:

Closed captions as well as comfort breaks will be available during the workshop.

If you have any other accessibility requirements, please get in touch ahead of the event by emailing: charlotte.graham-spouge@outsidein.org.uk

Important Note:

After confirming your name and email, you will be asked to provide a postal address so we can send you a creative pack for the workshop.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.