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Join artist Anna Brownsted to be inspired by the exhibition Here is a Gale Warning: Art Crisis & Survival and discover textile collage and banner making as forms of artistic resilience and storytelling.

Together we will look and discuss the themes explored by the artists featured in the exhibition, with particular focus on works by Candace Hill-Montgomery and Rose Finn-Kelcey. In the studio, Anna will hold a reflective and discursive space to make, using recycled and found materials, which we will layer, stitch, and assemble our own textile creations.

During the session participants will:

• Enjoy an introduction to Here is a Gale Warning: Art Crisis & Survival with Anna Brownsted and Kettle’s Yard staff.
• Discover techniques for layering, stitching, distressing and collaging in textile in order to tell stories.
• Connect with other people and explore how creativity can support a personal response of resilience to social, personal and global matters
• Make your own creation, guided by meaning and message
• Come together and discuss material choices, storytelling and healing through creativity in challenging moments.

This workshop does not include lunch but tea and coffee will be available throughout. There is a break for lunch where you are welcome to visit local cafes or bring a packed lunch if you wish.

We will be exploring the exhibition during the workshop but we will not be visiting the house and collection. If you wish to visit the house, we recommend you book your ticket in advance through our website.

This hands-on session takes the archive as a starting point for how artists, curators and writers can learn from, and speculate beyond history. Drawing on examples from personal archives and intimate experiences that are hard to contain within art’s histories, as well as fabricated narratives within feminist and institutional collections, this workshop provides an opportunity to explore material from the Women’s Art Library alongside participants personal stories.

Participants will be encouraged to experiment with writing feminist art histories that centre desire, gossip, speculation and an embodied relationship to the past. This work of archival fabulation will build on the installation Slightly Bitter, part of our exhibition Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter, which combines actual and fictional correspondence to imagine the relationship between the modernist artists Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska and Nina Hamnett beyond the historical record.

There will also be an opportunity to view the exhibition.

Please note: participants will need to bring a notepad and pen.

This event would be best suited to graduate students, researchers, curators, artists, and archivists.