Matryoshka doll painting workshop

Inviting participants to reflect on how we position ourselves within layers of self, time, family, ancestry, and community(ies).

Using the dolls as a tool to explore the porous borders of self and relation, we ask how we might remain with others and with ourselves amid the complexities of love. Participants will be invited to spend a day exploring this theme for themselves and with each other through painting their matryoshka doll set.

The matryoshka here is not presented as a cultural artefact but as a generative form; an engine for exploration. Its nested structure becomes a means to think through relationship and selfhood, to hold multiplicity, and to open up a space for reflection and dialogue.

Practical details

• Participants: Limited to 4 places (this is small-scale, trial workshop)
• Experience: No prior painting experience required
• Atmosphere: Open to discussion and reflection. We ask that the space remains respectful and inclusive
• Materials: All materials provided. You’re welcome to bring your own non-toxic paints, brushes, or other materials you enjoy using

What to bring:

• Warm layers and/or a hot water bottle (the space is unheated and genuinely very cold)
• Clothes that can get messy (aprons provided)
• A packed lunch, if you wish

About the host:

Michael Hautemulle:

Michael Hautemulle examines how finite time informs systems of value. Working through sculpture in its expanded sense, she explores productivity, pleasure, ethics, and aesthetics, asking how, in our mortality, we consume and are consumed by time.

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