Emma and Stephen Baker

For Miss Baker's 30th birthday.

Whitworth Art Gallery 'Tactile/Tangible' workshop

A couple of weeks ago me and my fellow colleagues were invited to take part in an afternoon workshop at the Whitworth Art Gallery which is literally a few minutes walk from the college where I work. As teachers we don't often get let out of the cage (or classroom) very often so we were literally salivating at the thought of getting to produce something big, fun and collaborative. The brief was fairly loose and was based on the themes tangible and tactile (these two gorgeous books below were available to provide ideas). The materials we were provided with ranged from scraps of paper and fabric to stickle bricks and coloured tape, however everything was in bold primary colours which worked really well against the grey of the upstairs gallery at the Whitworth within which we worked. The results are as below. It was certainly fun, in fact I'm not sure who enjoyed it most, us or Andrew who kindly volunteered to be our living mannequin.