Saturday 16th May 10.00am to 5pm
£50 full price, £25 concessions
Artist, Nicole Manley will be introducing collage in its many forms as a way of exploring past present and future experiences of the Jed River and other local rivers in the Scottish Borders through the making of collage. People with memories of Jed River and other local rivers are warmly invited to participate in a voyage down memory lane exploring thoughts and feelings about their river and our natural and historical heritage.
Nicole will introduce collage making in the morning in a welcoming environment in the Port House in the centre of Jedburgh, where she will explain the various techniques of collage, which will include aspects about how we can explore our perception to our environment in multiple ways, which can be then expressed through collage. Then you will go for a walk taking your time, moving, sitting, contemplating the river, its surroundings and yourself. It’s about being mindful of time, space, flow, movement, sounds, light, dark, the non-human, things that we do not have time to see.
Things you can do on your walk:
Being mindful of a moment if you feel an urge to capture something on you mobile phone camera - take a photo or several photos
Being mindful of any words, phrases or poetry that come to mind - take a note of those words
Being mindful of objects, plants, stones, or things you come across on your walk and you feel the urge to take them with - pick them up and keep them as found objects
All these things you might incorporate them into your collage during the afternoon of college making, so please bring back any photos, words or found objects with you. If you take any photos on your walk, please chose at least three of them and they will be printer for collage making.
The collage is not simply a representation of the river and the place around it. It provides a contextfor your relationship with it and an exploration of not only the river’s landscape, but your interior landscape as well, and how this outer landscape affects our inner landscape and vice-a-versa. Photographs for example can be a mirror as being a means of self-expression or a method of exploration. These reflective surfaces can connect us to the present situations which can, when shared, enable society to reflect upon itself, like the surface of water reflecting its surrounding environment. So the workshop will also be about sharing our collages, so others can see them. No one will judge your collage, but rather we will connect to them through a process of free-association. This process will become a verbal collage of subjective experiences of one another’s exploration of walking along the Jed Water.
By the end of the day you will have an A3 mounted collage of your own to take away ready for framing.
This workshop is open to people who enjoy walking and also to anyone who requires wheelchair access or has difficulty walking. if you need wheelchair access or need to know more about the walk, please contact nmanley@artaffect.co.uk as she can ensure that parts of the walk are accessible for you. Wheelchair access is available in the workshop space.
Coffee, tea, herbal teas and biscuits will be available throughout the day.
Note 1: There are half price concessions for students, unwaged and unwaged people. Please choose your preference in the payment section.
Note 2: If you are coming from Edinburgh or on the Edinburgh to Tweedbank trainline, we will arrange to pick you up at Tweedbank station to drive you to ArtAffect (and back!). We can meet you at Tweedbank at 09.13 and make sure you catch the return train at 17.49. please book this car ride with jmanley@artaffect.co.uk
Note 3: If you register and then can't make it, please let us know in advance so we can open up the space to someone else.
Saturday 16th May 10.00am to 5pm
£50 full price, £25 concessions
Artist, Nicole Manley will be introducing collage in its many forms as a way of exploring past present and future experiences of the Jed River and other local rivers in the Scottish Borders through the making of collage. People with memories of Jed River and other local rivers are warmly invited to participate in a voyage down memory lane exploring thoughts and feelings about their river and our natural and historical heritage.
Nicole will introduce collage making in the morning in a welcoming environment in the Port House in the centre of Jedburgh, where she will explain the various techniques of collage, which will include aspects about how we can explore our perception to our environment in multiple ways, which can be then expressed through collage. Then you will go for a walk taking your time, moving, sitting, contemplating the river, its surroundings and yourself. It’s about being mindful of time, space, flow, movement, sounds, light, dark, the non-human, things that we do not have time to see.
Things you can do on your walk:
Being mindful of a moment if you feel an urge to capture something on you mobile phone camera - take a photo or several photos
Being mindful of any words, phrases or poetry that come to mind - take a note of those words
Being mindful of objects, plants, stones, or things you come across on your walk and you feel the urge to take them with - pick them up and keep them as found objects
All these things you might incorporate them into your collage during the afternoon of college making, so please bring back any photos, words or found objects with you. If you take any photos on your walk, please chose at least three of them and they will be printer for collage making.
The collage is not simply a representation of the river and the place around it. It provides a contextfor your relationship with it and an exploration of not only the river’s landscape, but your interior landscape as well, and how this outer landscape affects our inner landscape and vice-a-versa. Photographs for example can be a mirror as being a means of self-expression or a method of exploration. These reflective surfaces can connect us to the present situations which can, when shared, enable society to reflect upon itself, like the surface of water reflecting its surrounding environment. So the workshop will also be about sharing our collages, so others can see them. No one will judge your collage, but rather we will connect to them through a process of free-association. This process will become a verbal collage of subjective experiences of one another’s exploration of walking along the Jed Water.
By the end of the day you will have an A3 mounted collage of your own to take away ready for framing.
This workshop is open to people who enjoy walking and also to anyone who requires wheelchair access or has difficulty walking. if you need wheelchair access or need to know more about the walk, please contact nmanley@artaffect.co.uk as she can ensure that parts of the walk are accessible for you. Wheelchair access is available in the workshop space.
Coffee, tea, herbal teas and biscuits will be available throughout the day.
Note 1: There are half price concessions for students, unwaged and unwaged people. Please choose your preference in the payment section.
Note 2: If you are coming from Edinburgh or on the Edinburgh to Tweedbank trainline, we will arrange to pick you up at Tweedbank station to drive you to ArtAffect (and back!). We can meet you at Tweedbank at 09.13 and make sure you catch the return train at 17.49. please book this car ride with jmanley@artaffect.co.uk
Note 3: If you register and then can't make it, please let us know in advance so we can open up the space to someone else.
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