Blank Media Collective

Upcoming Event: You, Me and the Budgie [Workshop - Neck of the Woods]

Saturday 27th March 2010, 12pm - Saturday 27th March 2010, 3pm

Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

You, Me and the Budgie will be a workshop led by London-based artist, Rhiannon Hunter in association with Neck of the Woods on Saturday 27 March, 12-3pm at Nexus Art Cafe.

Participants will have the opportunity to work alongside Rhiannon inspired by her specially commissioned site-specific work, Commun-I-ty in the window box of Nexus Art Cafe. Rhiannon will lead the workshop to help participants create a series of small wall-hangings which will be displayed for the remainder of the exhibition.

FURTHER DETAILS

Session times:
12-1pm - This session will include a talk from Rhiannon about her practice, discussion about the local communities and the initial stages of creating the banners. Priority is given to participants that have booked a place on the workshop.
1-3pm - Drop-in session to create banners and work with the artist

To guarantee you place in the first session please email . with your full name and contact telephone number.

All ages and abilities are welcomed however children under 11yrs will need accompanying by an adult.

Pre-Workshop:
Participants are requested to write down 5 words during and linked to their journey to the workshop. Each participant is asked to bring in a selection of materials/wool/buttons or just about anything that they may wish to use/is inspirational.

Rhiannon Hunter
Rhiannon’s work explores notions of travelling, belonging and shifting environments. Journeying through an environment is a combination of personal, physical and external encounters.

As we negotiate spaces, we make conscious and unconscious bonds with surfaces and objects, storing them to memory and imprinting them with a sense of significance that roots us to a sense of place and belonging. We navigate spaces, dance over obstacles and make fleeting encounters. In much of her practice, Rhiannon entertains ideas surrounding communication, interaction and connectivity through material installation and live performance art.