Artist in residence - Playscapes making session

During her artists residency Dr Jenna Fox will be creating a fantastical dolls house installation, and you are invuted to be part of the process.

"I am using the residency to create a fantastical dolls house. The wall paper will be handmade from my many patterns and the result will be a 'Playscape'. The workshop will be a time to go as wild as you dare and create surreal furniture, small paintings and make peg doll people to inhabit the dolls house. This is less about making and everything about letting your inner fun side out to play. Concepts and ideas are the focus as we have fun together making and shaping the dolls house."

Dr Jenna Fox is a British artist whose PhD research explores alter egos as a way to tap into alternative and sometimes conflicting creativity within her practice. Alter egos enable her to question identity and place. The inside, the outside, boundaries, viewpoints and the movement between the two. She employs playfulness and humour as a coping mechanism and a means of exploring complex, often troubling topics in an accessible manner through painting, sculpture, and installations."
She has exhibited extensively across the UK and was selected for Wells Contemporary 2022 for an installation of huge flowers. Her work is on show at Reading station with a mural 10m x 3.3m and at the Reading Festival site with a huge mural painted in June 2025. In May 2023 she held a solo show at Guildford Cathedral and the Sunbury Gallery. She has exhibited at The National Trust, for The RSPB, Earley Station, Trowbridge Town Hall, Cromwell Place Gallery and The Crypt Gallery London, and is on permanent display at South Western Rail, The Sculpture Park Farnham, The War Horse memorial at Royal Ascot, Frimley Park Hospital and West Swindon Parish Council. She has just completed a huge mural at Oxford Road, Reading for NWR in September 2025.

This workshop is for adults.

This workshop is part of a public engagment programme for our artist resident scheme which means the ticket price covers only the materials. If you are able and wish to we have an option to donate to Jelly.

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