Weaving Words. Visual Art Workshop.

This workshop sits alongside Bag Of Excuses, an installation by Gemma Mae Halligan and Sinéad O'Neill-Nicholl reflecting on the work of Prof. Jane Monckton Smith in relation to violence towards women & girls. Bag Of Excuses at its heart is trying to help our audience understand the 8 stages of behaviour found in intimate partner homicide and abusive relationships. When we found Prof Jane's work we kept asking ' how do we not know this?' The installation is our response to that question and we wanted to create some workshops to help our audience do the same. The workshops have been designed to explore the themes and issues raised in Bag Of Excuses through engaging in an art activity and are open to everyone over 18yrs. We want everyone to be as comfortable as possible, so we have provided a breakout space, refreshments and plenty of further information. Our trained staff will also be on hand to direct you to additional resources. The £10 deposit ticket price is fully refundable on attendance at the workshop.

Info: In A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf talks of a book being “built” by sentences “made by men out of their own needs for their own uses.” Join artist Cathy Scullion in writing your intimate story, your secret story, deconstructing it and rebuilding it into a woven, coded language, made by you, for your own needs.
The workshop will begin with each participant taking some time to handwrite a story personal to them, a story that perhaps they have never shared with anyone, one they choose to keep secret. This story will immediately be shredded. You will not be asked to share it with anyone.
We will then take the strips of fragmented pages and weave these into small squares. A combination of the fragmented words and weaving will reshape your story into an unreadable language, giving you the opportunity to release the story into the world, but in a way that will not leave you exposed.
Each woven square will be combined, at a later date, by Cathy to create a “story quilt”.

Info: In A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf talks of a book being “built” by sentences “made by men out of their own needs for their own uses.” Join artist Cathy Scullion in writing your intimate story, your secret story, deconstructing it and rebuilding it into a woven, coded language, made by you, for your own needs.
The workshop will begin with each participant taking some time to handwrite a story personal to them, a story that perhaps they have never shared with anyone, one they choose to keep secret. This story will immediately be shredded. You will not be asked to share it with anyone.
We will then take the strips of fragmented pages and weave these into small squares. A combination of the fragmented words and weaving will reshape your story into an unreadable language, giving you the opportunity to release the story into the world, but in a way that will not leave you exposed.
Each woven square will be combined, at a later date, by Cathy to create a “story quilt”.

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