The nature of shadow is ephemeral, transient and often fleeting. Shadows show us the world with flickering shapes, they may move, they may be still, they may be enormous, they could be tiny…and a lot of the time they are not even there!

Shadows also offer us a link to the past..think of old castles, homes, places that may be lit with candle light, torches or sunlight. As the light sources ( or planet) move so do the shadows. They can hint of something we may not have seen before or maybe not quite in the way we would expect.

I create shadows from gesture or movement and when I install these in an old place there is an instant link connection to the past, of people before us with their own stories to tell.

For this workshop, we will collect some found things in the Circular Space and we can share and consider their stories. We could collect by colour, by size, by smell, or by any category you may be interested in - whatever grabs your attention.

We can chat about the possibilities of what we have found and we will photograph the shadow possibilities for us to see and work with.

We will play with sources of lights to see the shapes and directions and even colour of shadows these things can make, and we will add / connect another piece by thread or glue, and build on our creations depending on what we see and what ideas these discarded treasures offer to us.

We can work based on relief ( on a wall), flat ( on a table / floor surface), or freestanding and they can be any scale that you choose.

This will be a supported play session and we can share our ideas to each other…and you can also work independently …and maybe we could create a whole group shadow maker!

You are welcome to take your assembled shadow makers home with you to rearrange, to keep,

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 hair 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.