Silent Stories: Immortelles Community Art Installation & Workshops

Creative art workshop inviting you to to contribute to a community installation

Everything contains a story, however big or small. Every object, item and belonging has passed through the hands and lives of others, tales of people, places, lost times and conversations, tightly and silently bound within. But what happens when a custodian dies and those stories are lost?

Join artist Judith Hope in workshops to create a shoal of sea creatures (imaginary or realistic), to act as the guardians, escorting the whale on it's journey into the next life. Participants will design and make their own sea creature using simple metal embossing techniques, as can be seen on the main artwork. The sea creatures will then be added to the art work, becoming an integral part of the finished piece.

Silent Stories uses a collection of tiny, seemingly unimportant objects sourced…