Join a playful, hands-on workshop exploring 3D making processes with art fabricators Lisa and Mark from Plenderleith Scantlebury.

Drawing on the architectural installations in Spike Island’s exhibition, Nancy Lupo: Several Chickens Later, Lisa and Mark will guide you through an experimental process of making and re-making objects, that explore how collective fantasies and emotions become embedded in form.

Participants are invited to create clay forms through a combination of hand building, moulding and throwing on a potter’s wheel, before re-casting the forms in plaster to make parallel imprints of the real world.

This workshop is open to all ages and abilities – children should be supervised by an adult. All equipment is provided, but participants are also encouraged to bring objects to create unique imprints.

Please note: Participants should wear clothes they don’t mind getting messy.

Image credit: Nancy Lupo, The Mirage (detail) (2026). 12 tellers made of paper towels, glue, spiral pasta, fishing line, balsa wood, paint and pigments. Installation view, Several Chickens Later, Spike Island, Bristol. Photograph by Rob Harris

I Am Making Art

These regular activity sessions are led by artists and visual practitioners. Visitors of all ages and abilities can try out new techniques and approaches to making art, from drawing and painting to collage, sculpture and animation. All materials are provided.

Plenderleith Scantlebury

Plenderleith Scantlebury is an art fabrication and model making company that produces high contemporary sculpture, installation and construction.

Mark Plenderleith and Lisa Scantlebury are experts in mould making and casting, with over 40 years of combined experience. Based at Spike Island, the studio works closely with artists to create high quality sculptures, public art, life casts, props/ models and bespoke objects. These are created using a range of casting techniques and processes – including life-casting, sculpting, encapsulation and engineering.

Plenderleith Scantlebury has worked with many notable organisations and artists, nationally and internationally; including Aardman Animations and 2022 Turner Prize Winner, Veronica Ryan.

https://www.plenderleithscantlebury.com/

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