an invitation into collaborative art-making
Are you seeking a safe place where you can use your imagination and – by transforming materials and objects – bring about subtle shifts in yourself?
Do you want to explore, one-to-one with me, an artist, art-making as a form of play.
As adults we have perhaps distanced ourselves from what is, essentially, a necessary activity. As parents we spend a great deal of time around the play of our children. Sometimes we join in with them, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes, these days it seems, it all mostly happens on a screen.
However, I believe there is a yearning for us to play ‘on our own terms‘ – working with and alongside one another – collaborating and devising in an equal relationship. Making something with our hands, our hearts and pieces of the real world transformed. Do you feel it?
Do you want to explore what happens when we use play – as children do – to externalise our inner lives, to re-imagine and perhaps to find alternative solutions to issues that we are only barely conscious of?
This is not art therapy. It is closer to working with a Personal Trainer, but rather than working on your body, you are making time for your imagination – to play with materials; to play with ideas.
We can dream big or we can dream small – both are valid and intrigue me. It is not necessary to have any previous experience of art. The creation of art will happen in the process.
In order for the creative flow to happen, sessions are at least two hours long. Every week, for five months. This is to allow the collaboration to have a definite beginning, middle and end.
The trajectory of our collaboration could involve – amongst other things – performance, film, animation, artists’ books, sculpture, installation, photography, drawing and painting, dependant on where the sharing of our stories – the intersection of our experiences – takes us.
contact me (Alice) at:
red.thread.homeopathy@gmail.com
find out more:
https://www.walkintomyparlour.com
other selves 