Northwich Workshops

Public Engament Workshops

As part of the Barons Quay project, I wanted to engage with local schools to contribute to the project's IMAGE BANK, which you can see here; https://www.flickr.com/photos/129716078@N08/albums ,which stores images that will be etched in to the metal for the final Artwork. We started each day with an advance 'sneak peak' tour of The Lion Salt Works, to eductate and inspire the students through looking at the salt mining history in Northwich area.

Leftwich Primary 2/6/15

The first workshop was run by local artist Beth Barlow. She planned a very active and engaging workshop task; creating homemade puff paint, for the students to get invovled in!  We created a large scale collaborative artwork that I could then photograph and upload to the Image Bank, and whcih will be used as a design within the final Artwork.

Hartford High 3/6/15

The second workshop was run by myself and two handy helpers. The aim of this exercise was to create textural salt desposit imagary. We layered up materials such as strunched up paper, foil, spong and string to create a large collaborative collorgraph, which we then inked up and took a print from.

For the second task, we wanted to  create structural images, again to use in the final artwork, using cut up pieces of paper, collaged on to acetate, so it could then be layered on top of the collograph print made earlier in the day.

A huge thank you to all the staff and students involved, to Lorna at the Lion Salt works for fantastic tours, and to Beth Barlow, Fay, and Rosalyn for their hard work over the two very productive days!