Courtesy & copyright Madi Acharya-Baskerville.
When: Friday 2 August, 11AM - 12.30PM
Where: Primary Garden
Booking: Free drop-in activity.
Join Work in Common artist is residence Madi Acharya-Baskerville for a free drop-in workshop. Creating mixed media sculptures inspired by nature is a mixed media workshop exploring how everyday packaging can be repurposed to create floral and leaf like mixed media forms. This workshop will take place in Primary’s Garden alongside regular drop-in gardening activity.
Participants will be supported to create small mixed media sculptures in response to the natural world, thinking about plants and flowers in Primary’s garden. The workshop will begin with a brief overview of the process involved in Madi’s own practice and focus of her residency at Primary.
There will be an emphasis on the use of colour and patterns from different cultures and incorporating these into sculpture by using hand made paper and painting techniques coupled with a focus on the importance of recycling, that is so crucial to our environment.
Workshop Outline:
Participants are invited to create patterns on hand made paper. A selection of patterns from across the world will be available as inspiration and participants are welcome to bring their own ideas! Patterns in combination with packaging materials will then the used to create small-scale mixed media sculptures which participants will be able to take away with them.
Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Please email admin@weareprimary.org or call 0115 924 4493 with any access inquiries.
Artist Bios:
Madi Acharya-Baskerville is a London based South Asian artist. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. She has exhibited widely within the UK and abroad. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Whitworth, Manchester and was on display in ‘Exchanges: Recent Additions to the Collection’ (2021-2022).
She has been awarded DYCP Grant from Arts Council England (2021-22) for developing her practice in the context of museum collections. She has been selected for the 20/20 residency commission, supported by University of the Arts London, Decolonizing Institute (2022) and has been artist in residence at The Lightbox, Woking as part of this. Her solo exhibition ‘I Dream a Palace’ at the Lightbox, (2024) showcases works created during the 20/20 residency.
She has won the First Plinth Award, Royal Society of Sculptors (2023). She has recently completed her first Public Art Commission and has sculpture ‘The Double Act’ has been on display at the Royal Society of Sculptors and is currently on show at The Art House, Wakefield. As part of the Public Art Award she also had a recent solo exhibition at the Royal Society of Sculptors. She has received The Primary Residency Prize following selection for New Art Exchange Open (2023). Her work also featured in ‘Fragments of Our Time’, Whitaker Museum as part of British Textile Biennial and ‘Stuff of Life/ Life of Stuff’ Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (2023).
Madi Archarya-Baskerville | Work In Common is part of TRANSFORM, a City Takeover taking place across cultural organisations between May and September 2024.
