Join us for the next Skillshare session!

We have set the theme of Intuition for the Skillshares programme between September 2021 - March 2022. The programme will focus on exploring your intuition and being creative with materials and processes. During each Skillshare, the workshop facilitator will demonstrate a creative or practical skill. However, each session will encourage communities to use their pre-existing knowledge and instincts to make something unique.

The programme is curated and produced in collaboration with Raisa Mcclarey Francis.

Sweep, 2020. Courtesy of Roo Dhissou.

For the first Skillshare in this series, we are joined by artist Roo Dhissou.

Roo would like to invite participants to braid, bind and bunch wheatgrass. During the workshop Roo will share techniques, questions, skills and learned knowledge of indigenous practices of broom binding as well as sharing ideas from her practice which delves into utilitarian objects and the our relationships to them in terms of culture.

This session will be in person, please book here.

Jharu I, 2019. Courtesy of Roo Dhissou.

Roo Dhissou explores the relationships and connections we have with one another as well as how we formulate a sense of self. Through her arts practice she investigates how multiplicity in culture is conducive to the concept of belonging and space. She is interested in facilitating discourse around race, gender and social class and the performability of these social structures. Using playful techniques, her current work reimagines cultural experience through gestalt expression, participatory performance, shared practices, gifting and attachments in found objects. Dhissou was the recipient of the prestigious Gertrude Aston Bowater Bequest (2019), AIS Award (2020) and Tate Liverpool Artists Award (2020). She currently works with Ikon as a Research Assistant for Ikon in the 1990s funded by the Paul Mellon Centre and will later be embarking on a fully funded Phd with M4C UKRI. This year she will be showing with Coventry Biennial, Niru Ratnam and more recently has had work acquired for New Art Gallery Walsall.