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GALLERY TALK: Public Sculpture – What’s the Point?

Messums Wiltshire

A talk during our Elisabeth Frink 'Man is an Animal' exhibition. Frink created much public art in her lifetime, a genre dominated by men.

With ongoing discussions over the statues in our cities, we invite a panel to discuss 'Public Sculpture - What's the Point?

Public art adds enormous value to the cultural, aesthetic and economic vitality of a community. It is now a well-accepted principle of urban design that public art contributes to a community's identity, fosters community pride and a sense of belonging, and enhances the quality of life for its residents and visitors. But with more and more public art, who decides and who commissions?

The panel includes Isabel de Vasconsellos (author of Fourth Plinth: How London Created the Smallest Sculpture Park in the World)

Free

CLAY COURSE: Make Christmas Tree Decorations (Family)

Messums Creative

MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together

Make Christmas Tree Decorations

Date: Saturday 6 November

Tutor: Bridget Timoney

Decorative traditions from around the world collide with brightly coloured and infinitely patterned shapes. A wide range of different decorative methods for you to choose from to create clay christmas decorations, light enough to hang from a branch and beautiful enough to charm the eye. Use scaffiito, imprint, miniature sculpture, cutters and collage resist methods to add beauty to clay base shapes.

£10 – £25

CLAY COURSE: Line Blend – Glaze Technology Session (Emerging potters)

Messums Creative

From potters to potters – Specialist topical courses:
Line blend – glaze technology session

Dates: 7th November and 28th November
Times: 7th November 10am – 4.30pm and 28th November 10am – 12pm

Cost: £155

Tutor: Tim Thornton

Introducing practice – A one day course to help you understand and master the use of different types of line blends in developing glazes.

This is a glaze technology session which will assist your understanding of the benefits of testing glazes and glaze materials via the increased addition of one material into another.

£155.00

CLAY COURSE: Make Porcelain Christmas Decorations (adults)

Messums Creative

Porcelain Christmas decorations workshop for adults

Date: Thursdays – 28 October and 11 November (two half days)
Making: 28 October 10.00 – 12.00
Glazing and decorating: 11 November 10.00-12.00

Tutor: Bridget Timoney

£85 (cost of materials is included)

Come and join us to make some gorgeous porcelain Christmas decorations to help add a uniquely creative twinkle to your festive home.

£85.00

CLAY COURSE: Sealife Sculpture Workshop (family)

Messums Creative

MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together

Family Sculpture Workshop: Fish, Dolphins and other Marine Mammals

Tutor: Finn Bush

A chance to sculpt balanced streamline shapes and explore the unique character and limitless movement of life under the waves. Then bring life to this sculpture using coloured slips to decorate with realism or playful decorative patterns. Finally you sculpture will be clear glazed to bring the aquatic glossy shine to your streamlined sculpture

£10 – £25

CLAY COURSE: Sealife Sculpture Workshop (family)

Messums Creative

MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together

Family Sculpture Workshop: Fish, Dolphins and other Marine Mammals

Tutor: Finn Bush

A chance to sculpt balanced streamline shapes and explore the unique character and limitless movement of life under the waves. Then bring life to this sculpture using coloured slips to decorate with realism or playful decorative patterns. Finally you sculpture will be clear glazed to bring the aquatic glossy shine to your streamlined sculpture

£10 – £25

CLAY COURSE: Glaze & Paint Your Christmas Decorations (Family)

Messums Creative

MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together

Glaze and Paint Your Christmas Tree Decorations

Tutor: Bridget Timoney

In these sessions you will be invited to glaze and decorate your Christmas decorations and if you have missed out this will be your chance to make some.

£10 – £25

CLAY COURSE: Glaze & Paint Your Christmas Decorations (Family)

Messums Creative

MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together

Glaze and Paint Your Christmas Tree Decorations

Tutor: Bridget Timoney

In these sessions you will be invited to glaze and decorate your Christmas decorations and if you have missed out this will be your chance to make some.

£10 – £25

ONLINE TALK: British Eccentricities through Photography

Online

Online talk with acclaimed documentary photographer Martin Parr CBE, social and art documentary photographer Sophie Green and documentary photographer Dod Miller as they discuss British eccentricities, cultural customs and humour in photography.

Free

CLAY COURSE: Sculpting Goggle Heads: Inspired by Elisabeth Frink (adults)

Messums Creative

MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together

Sculpting Goggle Heads: (2 part workshop)

Date: Saturday 27 November (part 2 workshop on Saturday 4 December, please book separately)
Times: Book either a morning or afternoon session
10.00 – 12.30 or
13.30 – 16.00

Tutor: Finn Bush

Part 1 – Making

Elizabeth Frink’s Goggle heads and noble faces are the inspiration for clay sculpture that explores and plays with the mysteries of looking and seeing.   This is a workshop where you will have the guidance to create a portrait in clay and the encouragement to develop a unique and reflective vision of the human face. The polished bronze of the Goggles of Frink’s Goggle heads give us permission to go anywhere with our imaginings. In this workshop you can imprint your dreams, ideas and inspirations into the medium of clay.

£10 – £25