Memory Postcard: free paper sculpture, photography and virtual reality workshop with Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine

What familiar objects exist in your mind even when they no longer exist in reality? Memory Postcard is a free workshop exploring memories of lost objects, for community members who have been affected in any way by the flooding events of recent years.
 
Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine are collaborating artists, award-winning filmmakers and digital creatives who work with miniatures to recreate real and imagined spaces. In this workshop participants will create simple paper sculptures that recall a piece of furniture from their past. These will be photographed, and a postcard-sized print of each memory space created for attendees to take home. Templates are provided as a guide.

Participants wishing to contribute to a larger creative Virtual Reality (VR) documentary work the artists are developing, examining the experience of floods, memory, and the objects and spaces lost, will be invited to record a short audio description of the work they have made during the workshop. These will be translated by the artists, along with the paper sculptures created, into a VR work to be experienced by participants.

To find out more about the artists, visit www.isobelandvan.com.

Important Information:

• These workshops are for flood-impacted community members, 16 years and above.
• Both workshops will be filmed with participant consent (and parental consent for anyone under 18). You do not have to be filmed, and if you prefer not to be, you may advise the facilitators.
• Each workshop has a limited capacity of just 6 places. 
• These workshops are free, but registration is required. 
• Once filled, a waiting list for each workshop will be available in case of cancellations.
• If you have booked but can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket or advise us as soon as possible, so your place may go to someone else.
• Ignite Studios is a wheelchair accessible venue. Please contact us ahead of time if you have accessibility needs you would like us to know about.
  

Image: Alison's Bed, Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine, digital sublimation print, 2023