In a state to create: Art workshops for the South Westminster community

In a State to Create - about the workshops

Brought to you by Encouragement Through the Arts and Talking (ETAT) a Pimlico based charity supporting adults facing isolation and loneliness.

In a State to Create, hosted by Tate Britain with the support of WCC, invites residents in South Westminster - regardless of their emotional or mental state - to channel their thoughts and feelings into meaningful, cathartic art-making. The workshops focus on developing creative skills, fostering self-expression, and strengthening social connections.

Who are they for?

These sessions are adapted to be enjoyed by South Westiminster residents who may feel isolated and lonely and who wish to be creative and to connect with others in the area. Welcoming people from different walks of life and backgrounds within our community to unite and make art together. Including:

• Parents/guardians with their under 3s including SEND needs.
• Adults 16+ with diverse abilites + carers
• Adults 16+ (acompanying children welcome including SEND needs)

How to book
Our terms are organised into themed blocks that change every six weeks. You can book on eventbrite weekly, choosing which weeks you’d like to attend. The activities are listed weekly below: Please only book if you’re confident you can join, so places remain available for others.

Term 3 : Nostaligia (5 Jan - 9 Feb / Mondays 11AM - 1PM or 3PM - 5PM)

• We will explore the theme of Nostalgia through personal and collective stories. Making artworks based on our attachment to objects, to places, people, to history. We will create made up stories for discarded objects on The Thames riverbanks, make art from rubbish, up-cyling items and also make miniature homes in the form of nests along the way...oh and play a lot of ‘nostalgic’ music a long the way...join us for this exploration! There will be an adapted project suitable for 0 - 5 years along side the running of the below:

Monday 5th January: 'My Nest' Making birds nest sculptures and using image collages based on home

Monday 12th January: 'Upcycled memories' Image transfer onto objects

Monday 19th January: 'Sound of my youth' printmaking etching onto CDs

Monday 26th January: Disgarded objects: 'Washed up treasure' making ceramic treasures and stories behind them

Monday 2nd February: Disgarded objects: 'Rubbish Art' paper machee and paster cast objects

Monday 9th February: Celebration day! Celebrating the term, we will make a collective artwork: making a 'floatsum and jetsum' artwork from fabric, rope and all the objects made over the nostalgia term.

Term 4 : Me (16 Feb - 23 Mar / Mondays 11AM - 1PM or 3PM - 5PM)

• Me, Me, ME! This final term will explore the self and how we can represent different aspects of ourselves through art-making. Self-portraits in the form of experimental drawings and textile paintings, drawing ‘character’ with mosaics, loving our hands, the moving body and more. This term is about really looking and appreciating ourselves by challenging the way we see ourselves and the way others perceive us. There will be an adapted project suitable for 0 - 5 years along side the running of the below:

Monday 16th February: 'Capture the moment' Experimental drawing techniques to capture the sense of ourselves and others.

Monday 23rd February: 'Upcycled clothes' Bring in old clothes and upcyle them with us to create original wearable art that is all about you.

Monday 2nd March: 'I love my hands' make a self-potrait textile artwork of our hands through collage, sewing and other textiles techniques onto canvas.

Monday 9th March: 'Mosaic Self Portrait' week 1: Making a mosaic of an object that represents me.

Monday 16th March: 'Mosaic Self Portrait' week 2: Making a mosaic of an object that represents me.

Monday 23rd March: Celebration day! Celebrating the term, we will make a collective artwork using Linocut printmaking: Printing a room from inside your home. We will print these all together to create a large artwork of a building that we all have a room in, that represents all of us.

Location & Directions

The workshops will take place in Tate Britain's Clore Studio located on the first floor at the back of the gallery.

A map is attached below with arrowed directions, but please ask a member staff for directions if you get lost and they will show you to the space:

Use Tate Britain's step free access: Enter through the Manton entrance (at the side of Tate Britain) located on Atterbury street. Once you have had your bag checked by security, a volunteer from the workshops will be there to great you. Turn left and use the stairs or the lift to access the first floor. Go past the walk art with black beading and go across the main gallery space (with the large sculptures of figures) to the left back corner of the space. Walk through the entrance way and you will see a sign for the workshops and Clore Studio on the left.

What to bring

There will be a small offering of refreshents, but please bring any food and drink with you that you would like. Please bring hot drinks in travel flasks with proper lids as no open food or drink is allowed in the gallery and it will be taken from you at bag check.

Some workshops may be messy. We will provide aprons and gloves but please wear clothes you don't mind getting messy and comfortable shoes.

Children safety in the space / Behaviour zero tollerance policy

**Please note, while we encourage parents/guardians to bring their children, these workshops are designed for adults 16+. Children must be supervised at all times and parents/guardians are responsible for their safety and wellbeing during the session.

***Our priority is to we create a safe and respectful environment for everyone in our workshops. We have a zero tolerance policy towards abusive and inappropriate language and behaviour and bullying towards staff, volunteers and participants. Any behaviour decided to be dangerous by the Workshop leaders will not be tolerated and will be met with immediate removal from the workshops.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

Get App

Host or Publisher Encouragement Through the Arts and Talking (ETAT)