Let’s be Eco-Logical! Workshops
Through dialogue, meditation, writing, and various eco-dyeing methods and techniques come create your own individual Prayers (wishes and hopes) for a healthy and balanced ecology. Resident Artist Anita will be holding socially engaged workshop around skill-based creative processes, with sustainable and eco-friendly techniques and materials.
Inspired by the Buddhist Prayer flags which are found fluttering happily in the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal. They are inscribed with texts representing peace, compassion, strength and wisdom.
Saturday 16 November, 11am to 1.30pm : Eco-printing with leaves and flowers. In this workshop will used found leaves and flowers from the garden to make interesting prints.
Saturday 23 November, 11am to 1.30pm : Eco-Logic, Sonic jamming and Mono-printing with single-use plastics. In this workshop we will collectively create the Prayer flags by first indulging in sonic jamming with single-used plastics and carrying on to Mono-print them.
Sunday 8 December, 11am to 1.30pm : Eco-Dyeing with Indigo and Cochineal extract. In this workshop we will collectively create the Prayer flags by dyeing cotton fabric with eco dyes like Indigo and Cochineal extract to make Prayer Flags.
Free to attend workshop tickets here: Workshops
You are all invited to attend, co-create and be participate in this public art project , to be installed in January 2025, in Arbeit's North Garden, in Trowbridge Gardens, E9.
All workshops are for persons 18 years and over, with limited free to attend tickets. Due to popular demand, please do cancel your ticket if you cannot attend.
We are pleased to announce Anita Agarwal as the new ReRooted Residency creative in Trowbridge Gardens, E9 5LD.
Anita Agarwal is a multidisciplinary visual artist from India currently based in London, working across moving images, art performance, installation, text, sculpture, mark- making, and social practice. Trained in painting and sculpture at Triveni Kala Sangam New Delhi, pursuit to acquire new tools led her to London - the world capital of Contemporary Arts. She went on to graduate with distinction in Fine Arts Diploma from Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, and Masters in Contemporary Art Practice majoring in Public sphere, 2021 from Royal College of Arts, London.
Her socially engaged practice investigates alternative models of artistic self-organisation, active spectatorship, participation, communication, social interaction, and community-building, with a focus on artistic labour and craft in relation to sustainable ways of creating and being.
Having travelled and lived in diverse cultures and geographies, Agarwal’s work explores the intersections and positions within cultures. Archives and social histories inform a provocative approach to storytelling across mediums, as an artist Anita is interested in reviewing, which and how stories are being told and, by whom. Agarwal strives to achieve playfulness and humour in her work, believes playfulness/humour assist to collide into other spaces, allowing people to relax and ease out into areas that are otherwise difficult and awkward to navigate.
Following a 4 month long residency, to include artist-led workshops during this time, the exhibition is currently planned for early next year.
The proposed plan to install flags, windchimes and an insect hotel to the north garden.
Meet the previous ReRooted Residency Creatives
‘ReRooted is an amazing opportunity and we both valued the experience, which was both challenging and rewarding.’ Rachel Attfield - ReRooted Residency Artist
The judges for the final round will be the previous ReRooted Residency Artists. Having experienced the residency programme, they will use their knowledge of the space to assist with selecting the next artist.
Jessy Harper-Solomon : Jessy was the first ReRooted Residency Artist (June to October 23). Using clay that was locally sourced, Jessy created a series of ceramic items for the garden and held workshops for the local community. The final exhibition, Wetlands, showcased various ceramic vessels and an opening event featuring pots and plates for dining.
‘In the garden, this work becomes a lens through which we can understand and engage with underground environments and soil health. The tactile vessels are understood in relation to the process that was required to create them. Overall, the outcome explores ways in which traditional craft practices can exist today and questions how they may change in a damaged and polluted environment, where soils are degraded, depleted and contaminated.’
Rachel and Ray Attfield : father and daughter creatives Rachel and Ray were the second ReRooted Residency Artists ( December 23 to March 24). Ray and Rachel collectively explored the transformational potential of natural materials, exploring how to give meaning to the ordinary, exploring our relationship to nature, particularly in urban environments. That wherever we are, we are part of not separate from nature.
Their final outcome in the garden, ‘You Can’t Make Trees’ began with a pile of wood and locally foraged plants, vines, leaves and stems that were available in the winter months, either foraged or donated by local gardening groups. Over the four-month residency Ray and Rachel considered the qualities of these different materials, particularly how they relate to our daily lives and cultural history.
This residency, artwork and programme of events has been made possible by the funding from LLDC’s 2022 Neighbourhood Priorities Fund.
If you have any questions, please contact: Gallery Curator: Hannah@Arbeit.org.uk