About this Event
Join Artist, Plumber and Retrofit Consultant Sovay Berriman for a unique and insightful art workshop hosted by ALMA art space.
The workshop is designed to allow a gentle and creative opportunity to explore the theme of living with damp. We will make artworks using collage, paint, and drawing materials, and share conversation around our experiences.
Touching upon themes such as precarious housing, enviromental impacts upon housing stock, and financial and climate-crisis factors, this event is primarily aimed at adults, but open to everyone.
This is the first in a series of workshops that are part of Sovay Berriman's research into living with damp. This research is ongoing and informs Sovay's current studio practice, as well as their research around the national transition to energy efficiency and low-carbon heating.
It is vital that we all are able to contribute to the often confusing conversations about how we heat our homes, how we maintain good indoor air quality, and how we increase our energy efficiency.
There will be no audio recording. Photographs will be taken, faces will be avoided.
This is a free event with limited spaces. If after booking you find you can no longer attend, please let us know so that someone else may take your place.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Also supported by Alma Artspace CIC.
Photo credits: L-R - Rag Porth (Liwyow a Gernow), 2024 (detail), Sovay Berriman; Izzy Eastick courtesy of Hospital Rooms, 2023.
Agenda
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Welcome and introduction
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:50 PM
Conversational making
Info: Responding to prompts, we'll use words and text to find the texture and tone of the work we'll make. We'll then select materials and begin making the ground of the work - either 3D making with card , cloth and paper, or working in 2D with paint, chalk, ink, and collage.
🕑: 02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Refreshment break
Info: Tea, Coffee, biscuits provided
🕑: 03:20 PM - 03:45 PM
Some sharing followed by quiet making
Info: Revisiting and reviewing the words and text we started with - questioning if some different responses arisen? This reflection will be taken into our pieces, which we'll continue working on, now in more detail, identifying where we want highlights and depth.
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Final conversations and invitation to share work
🕑: 04:00 PM
Close
Event venue & nearby stays
ALMA Artspace CIC, Unit 5 Wesley Yard, Newquay, United Kingdom
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