About this Event
This hands-on creative workshop invites you to breathe life back into fabric scraps to design your own personalised textile brooches.
You will learn how to work with a variety of reclaimed, vintage and recycled fabrics and decorative materials such as ribbons and buttons to create a unique wearable brooch with guidance and support from artist facilitator Caroline Ip.
Designed by students on Central Saint Martin's BA in Culture, Criticism and Curation, Material Memories is inspired by the Foundling Museum's collection of fabric tokens, which will be explored during the workshop.
You don't need any previous art experience to join this workshop and it is open to anyone aged 18-30!
If you want to explore your creativity at your own pace, work with fabric to create something personal and practical, and learn something new, then this workshop is for you!
You will receive:
- All the materials you need to create your brooch
- Step by step guidance
- New insight and perspectives
Please bring:
Please bring a small piece of scrap or salvaged material of your choice. We will provide plenty of other materials for you to work with!
About your facilitator:
Caroline Ip is an artist and facilitator based in London, whose practice brings together interests in diasporic culture, storytelling, and archives, considering the processes through which our identities are constructed and contested.
Drawn to hand-sewing, perhaps in part due to ancestral connections to the textiles industries in Lancashire and China, this technique has become a medium through which Caroline explores her own mixed heritage and nurtures collective dialogue in community spaces. Her process centres a tactile relationship with materials, utilising recycled and second-hand fabrics alongside found objects and ephemera, with a curiosity into the role of sensory memory in shaping our cultural identities.
About Assemblage Collective:
Assemblage Collective is an art collective based in London specialising in hands-on artistic workshops with an emphasis on papercrafting and creativity as a tool for bringing people together. Assemblage hosts a range of workshops across London, creating spaces to discover new creative skills, build networks, and make art in a supportive and friendly environment.
Photo credit: Anna Cunningham
Event venue & nearby stays
The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, United Kingdom
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