We’re pleased to share the news that next week we’ll be at the London Happier Outdoors Network Inaugural Meeting presenting Ecologically thoughtful art-making workshop led by our brilliant and eco-minded Artist Associate Abigail Hunt!
The Happier Outdoors Festival will take place between 18 and 27 March 2024 and is being delivered by charitable, grassroots and government organisations across London, in partnership with Natural England. The aim is to help more people connect with nature to improve their health and wellbeing.
Abigail is delivering a practical workshop to encourage us to consider the impact of the things we make and how we can use art materials in more sustainable ways. Exploring concepts of zero waste, zero impact and our responsibility to ensure art making is ecologically thoughtful. The session takes inspiration from our surroundings to create temporary sculptures and drawings, using natural materials without waste.
Abigail Hunt‘s artistic practice centres around found objects and images and a procession of tasks: the investigative research of an image, the deconstruction of a line, the disablement of form and finally the reconstruction and reconfiguration of the object. These processes are similar to that of understanding a new language. Through translating one language of images and the later reformation and retelling through made objects, Abigail creates her own structures, tones and descriptions.
