Thur 25th May 6 – 7.30pm
Tickets £15.00
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Fine Artist Carole Griffiths is fascinated by domestic objects, especially cutlery. Spoons are a recurring motif throughout her work and symbolise the reformation of herself as a child, mother and other.

Although spoons are objects we encounter every day, they can symbolise sustenance, support and the pleasures of making. Carole’s workshop wants you to engage with the spoon as a sculptural vessel and explore manipulating clay to shape bodily expressive structures.

This workshop will enable you to create a clay spoon sculpture that captures part body, part vessel creating an anthropomorphic form that comes in a variety of sizes and shapes.

South Square is thrilled to present this fascinating opportunity to have meaningful conversations about life and art.

What can I expect?

The session will start with an open conversation about spoons, which could include spoons from your childhood, what a spoon means to you, or how you see the spoon in your daily life.

After that, participants can share their personal spoons or collections with the group.

Carole will then talk about some of her sculptures and how the spoon has taken on new meaning as a human shape using a variety of clays and methods. Carole will next demonstrate how she brings her spoon to life with air drying terracotta clay.

Each participant will then create their own spoon sculpture and share their interpretation of the finished sculpture to take away with them.

Suitable for beginners.

What should I bring?

Clay can be messy so please wear old clothes.
Spoons/Spoon Collections for inspiration.
Tupperware box to take your sculpture home. (We can provide a box)

Accessibility

South Square believe that creative workshops should be affordable, therefore, these tickets have been funded in part.

We do have access bursaries available so please ring the centre for more information.