Following on from Skillshare: Sow Grow Eat (Pt. 1) artist Maybelle Peters will deliver a workshop with residents and members at Primary. During the session Maybelle will speak about how growing has become integral to her work before we delve deeper into the histories, traditions and knowledges that shape practice. 

The session will focus on encouraging participants to acknowledge their skills and experience that fall outside of what is traditionally defined as ‘practice’. These knowledges are often overlooked or hidden by artists who are afraid to share non-theory, non-art related influences that have shaped their unique approaches to making. Discussion will take place during a hands-on growing experience in Primary’s playground. 

Maybelle has been commissioned by Primary as part of the When We Worked At Raleigh project, working towards the creation of a new moving image artwork in response to the archive. 

Our Skillshares are regular events as part of Primary’s Public Programme. Each session provides an opportunity to learn new skills, meet new people, and continue conversations about the resources we can share in our communities.

This event is for Primary residents and members, delivered as a collaboration between Primary’s Public Programme and Artist Development programme - supporting the wide range of practices and practitioners throughout the organisation. Primary residents and members can book by emailing colette@weareprimary.org. 

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Maybelle Peters is a London based artist and filmmaker working in film and CGI. Her practice focuses on storytelling using documentary, historical events, literature and oral narratives. She gained her bachelor’s degree in Animation at Farnham where she made her first commissioned film for BBC2. Her Channel 4 commissioned film, Mama Lou, has been shown extensively at animation festivals including Annecy, Ottawa and the Edinburgh Film Festival as well as broadcast television. She is the recipient of the inaugural Womxn of Colour art award.

Her work was shown as part of The Place is Here exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary and South London Gallery in 2017. Maybelle is a practice-based PhD candidate at UCA Farnham and her practice explores allegorical tales and myth making and more recently looks at gleaning stories from objects, personal rituals and an archive of ephemera, gestures and sounds.