Blackpool Great Big Green Week: Coastal Collage workshop

Create your own beautiful coastal-inspired sculpture collage with artist Tina Dempsey.

About this event

Join us as we explore Tina’s collection of beachcombed treasures in detail through magnifying glasses and microscopes. We’ll use the observed colours, shape and patterns from the shells, pebbles and fossils to inspire our collages.

We’ll have collage materials available but you can get extra creative by bringing scrap paper along from home. This could be packaging, envelopes, book pages or even energy bills! We’ll transform these into hand painted papers for our collage using watercolours, paint sticks and pens. We’ll use cutting, tearing and layering techniques to create beautiful collages for you to keep.

What do I need?
Paper: Please bring 5 or 6 bits of scrap paper. You can bring anything, bills, wrappers, used notepaper.

Is there a suggested age?
This session has been designed for adults (aged 16 years +).

Where’s the venue?
We’re holding this workshop at our new venue: 28 Topping Street. Blackpool FY1 3AQ. It’s next door to Bootleg Social.
We’ll be temporarily ‘popping up’ in the ground floor shop area for Great Big Green Week. Please note that the full space will not be open as we still have building work to do. We’ll have illustrations of the rest of the building available for you to look at on the day, so feel free to ask us about our plans.

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Tina Dempsey
“Exploring places, wandering, walking, gathering treasures, artefacts and all manner of flotsam and jetsam are the starting points for creating my collections. Foraged items then sit with me in the studio, allowing time and space to respond via drawings, sculpture, prints, paintings and collage. These collections offer a new angle from which to learn about a place, observe and ultimately suggest new ways of looking. Equal importance is given to each object, removing any hierarchy. The Wunderkammer (cabinet of curiosities/collection of notable objects) is an important context for my work, with its ethos of using intriguing collections as a way of learning about and understanding the world.”

This event is part of Great Big Green Week.

Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest call for action on climate change, and takes place from 24 September to 2 October 2022. Show up for nature, people and climate with your community this September and take part in the #GreatBigGreenWeek! From wildlife gardening to green energy projects, and everything in between, there’s something for everyone.