Ways of Making - Flora Parrott: HALF-LIGHT

Ways of Making - Flora Parrott: HALF-LIGHT

Writing Workshop
11am - 2pm Saturday 29 February 2020

A drawing workshop in which participants will be invited into a half-light state; the space between sleep and wake, night and day. Insomnia, night shift, babies, nights out, jet lag. These states often feel frustrating and isolating but can also be highly imaginative. The gallery will become a low-lit, mumbling bedroom with radios and televisions set at low volume. We will draw and make under bed sheet canopy.

About the artist:

Flora Parrott is an artist and researcher currently undertaking a TECHNE funded PhD in the Geography Department at Royal Holloway University London. Her work looks at notions of the subterranean, the restructuring of the senses in the dark and conceptions of reality and fiction. Previous exhibitions include Wysing Arts Centre, Atelier Fidalga , Såo Paulo, The Earth Science Museum, USP, Såo Paulo, The Bluecoat, Norwich Castle Museum and Tintype London. In 2016 Parrott was the Artist In Residence at RGS-IBG developing a project about natural caves and caving titled ‘Swallet’. A publication of the same name has been designed and published with Camberwell Press.


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This workshop is part of the programme. Ways of Making is a free, open access educational programme taking place in Feb-March 2020 that explores different forms of learning and creating.

Ways of Making will be led by artists and educators, and supported by a program of theoretical reading and discussion groups. During this programme we want to focus on different ways that art and education can be integrated into the everyday as a tool for empowering people and improving wellbeing.

The programme of workshops will explore embodied pedagogies; different forms of knowing and learning, and life skills as creative pursuits. We will learn though cooking & making, listening, swimming & walking, reading & writing. Through these different embodied forms of learning we will explore the political power of education, collectivity and collaboration.

This is an Arts Council England Funded project.