Join multidisciplinary West Sussex-based artist Sarah in this collage workshop where you will learn how to use found imagery to create a surrealist image in response to the exhibition Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo. Exploring how the meaning of an image can be transformed through the process of cutting, layering, covering and the juxtaposing of images.
If you wish you can bring your own images to respond to; these could be from magazines, old books, postcards, newspapers, maps, photographs and photocopies, anything paper based with an image on that you don’t mind cutting up! However all materials will be provided.
About Sarah Gillham
Sarah Gillham is a multidisciplinary artist based in West Sussex. Her work is born out of playing and responding to materials such as clay and textiles and the interplay with found objects and images. Tensions between desire, loss, new life, humour and the body are played out through the marriage of materials, images and objects.
Sarah fuses together found ceramic objects with clay, through the process multiple firing and re-glazing. She subverts the original meaning of these objects and imposes her own psychological and bodily experiences onto them. The worn histories of found objects or furniture resonate with her, serving as containers, props, or extensions for her ceramic objects. Gillham’s work operates as individual relics yet when displayed together, they form a powerful community of interconnected pieces.
Since graduating from her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, she has exhibited widely and has as co-curated projects for the Transition Gallery, London, Folkestone Triennial Fringe funded by the Arts Council and Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London. She is currently a Tutor at the Arts Academy, London and works as part of the educational team at the Matt Black Barn, West Sussex.
Supported Places:
Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery wants to encourage and support everyone to be creative and access their creative workshops. Thanks to the support and funding from Arts Council England, we are able to offer a limited number of partial and full bursaries to this workshop for those with limited or no financial income. For more details, please contact Ryan Watts, education@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk.
Surrealist Collage Art Workshop with Sarah Gillham is part of our Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo events, supported using public funding by National Lottery through Arts Council England, a grant from the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund and by the Henry Moore Foundation
