Family workshop: The Stories of Objects

Join artist Emily Binks to explore the stories within objects and make sculptures using unwanted household items, inspired by our current exhibition by Michael E. Smith.

Unlock your creativity as you explore Smith’s unique approach to sculpture and installation art, and use his works as inspiration to create your own sculptures using unusual found materials.

Michael E. Smith uses found objects to create his sculptures, which have all had a previous life and hold stories within them. In this workshop artist Emily Binks invites you to explore the stories within objects and materials.

We’ll begin with a short tour of the exhibition, then explore the stories behind an object that you will bring from home. We’ll then use unusual sculptural materials that we have gathered from unwanted household items to make sculptures, which we’ll temporarily display and photograph in the galleries.

About the artist

Emily Binks is an artist and creative practitioner based at The Art House, Wakefield. She was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire and studied at Edinburgh College of Art.

Binks examines the notion of ‘home’ through sculptural experiments using mixed media including reclaimed discarded furniture parts, materials often associated with temporary shelter construction and neon.

Who this event is for

Suitable for families with children aged 6+.

This is an intergenerational workshop – we encourage creativity in all ages! Children must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the workshop. Please book tickets for all members of your group.

Accessibility

Visitors who would prefer a step-free entrance can use the accessible entrance on Cookridge Street using the lift to bring you onto the ground floor. The workshop will take place in the seminar room on the basement level and you can use a passenger lift to all floors of the building.

You can store pushchairs in the seminar room for the whole event.

Toilets are located just outside the seminar room on the basement level, including baby changing facilities within the accessible and gender-neutral toilet.

We want to make it as easy as possible for all to attend, so please get in touch if you have any access needs that you would like to discuss before the workshop.

Host or Publisher Henry Moore Institute