Come and play with shadows from found objects to create assembled sculptures and 3d reliefs.
For this workshop, we will be looking at a variety of things that have been donated to the scrap space, and assembling them into quirky shapes that can be fixed onto a wall ( relief) or stand alone as sculpture. In particular we can play with different colour light sources to create ephemeral, flat shadows of our work..making the shadows move, overlap, and perhaps be different colours…..what will we discover? Maybe we could enlarge the shadows to cast across a wall, the floor or even the ceiling.

Kathy will collaborate with you and provide lots of starting points and offer prompt cards to use as the workshop progresses, to foster a real sense of discovery with our making. Of course working this way as play, you may prefer to work alone or with someone else, or perhaps join your work together as a group / groups. 

Central to this workshop is to use a camera / phone to take pictures from many angles as we go…as when we have a photo we can see what we have made a bit differently and this often gives us ideas for the next steps.

We will connect discarded and overlooked things together that may have been forgotten about. The things that have been discarded are brought into the present time, we have salvaged and given new meaning and enjoyment to things from old.

When I made my first visit to the circular space last week….one of the ( many many) boxes that took my attention was the box with ‘knitted bits’ These still had their stitches on them, like a zap of curled yarn running along the top. I wondered why…what was the reason this potentially finished knitted work had been abandoned? To me, I imagined it being a sudden event that demanded the maker to leave the work behind as something more pressing may have demanded their attention…

Knitty Konnektors  is a workshop where we can pick up discarded pieces and wonder about the  stories that brought the material into our hands.To thread a needle through the stitches made by an unknown person is a powerful link to the past…similar to the sensation of holding a handwritten letter from a relative from long ago. There is an amazing connection!

We can knit and chat  and sew and fix our own created materials into and from the one we start off with. …and take the original work into our museum of today.

You don't have to be able to knit to enjoy this workshop…you can learn…and we can create joining materials by weaving, threading, crochet and also using string or rope or strips of fabric, twist our own strings…using needles of all sizes, cardboard and even our own fingers.

The outcomes will depend on the group..we could connect the very different remedied pieces into one piece…we could keep for ourselves, or both….we could make rubbings from textures.

There are many possibilities to the outcome!

But the holding and fixing and adding our own is at the heart of this workshop.

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