In this Saturday workshop we will coat photographic papers and use fresh and pressed plants to make cyanotypes at Crystal Palace Park farm

Please join us for this Cyanotype workshop with artist Sally Gunnett and the Fieldwork Project. We will start to prepare and coat our own photographic papers in the Fieldwork workshop at 114a Anerley Road, close to the Crystal Palace Park train station. We will then walk to the nearby farm in Crystal Palace Park at 2pm to collect plants and create cyanotypes.

We hope for beautiful late summer sunny weather.

All materials will be provided. No previous experience required.

Saturday 19th September, 1pm-3.30pm

We have limited places available.

Please email andrea@creativeartsmentoring.com before booking to receive all info and details.

Fieldwork: "We are a small non-profit organisation working alongside communities facing ongoing adversity, particularly people with experience of, or currently navigating, the asylum system. Each week we host a gathering at the farm — a space to spend time outdoors, garden, make things together, and share knowledge and conversation."

Learn more about Fieldwork's farm club project and their work with people who currently navigate the asylum system in the UK:

@thefieldworkprojectcic

https://e-voice.org.uk/fieldwork

Sally Gunnett: "I work with natural elements to record places and periods of time, mainly using plants and their naturally occurring dyes. After a rural upbringing I moved to London in 2000 and have lived and worked here since. I graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2003 and completed an MA in Education (Artist Teacher Practice) at Oxford Brookes University with distinction in 2022.

My current practice explores the change and growth of plants in my garden and other places which have significance to me. I work with time-based processes and alternative printmaking techniques to record periods in time or the status of plants at a particular moment. I am interested in the unpredictability of these processes and the effects that they have both on the plants used to create them and the environment they are created in. I am currently investigating how nature can be used to record periods of time by creating work in the environment, documenting the effects of natural elements such as rain.

I have work in private and public collections internationally and have exhibited nationally including Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2017-2020), Townhouse Open, OVADA and have had solo exhibitions at New:Defence arts project in Essex and Woolwich Front Room. My work was commissioned for the cover of the most recent South London Commons project publication about Woolwich Common."

https://sallygunnett.com

Palaceparkphoto is a group of photographers, artists and emerging talent who have been meeting in Crystal Palace since 2023. The group exhibits as part of the Crystal Palace Artists Open House in September/October each year. Get in touch join our Photo Meet-Up sessions. You can also follow us @palaceparkphoto on Instagram.

www.palaceparkphoto.co.uk

@palaceparkphoto

Phone Contact: 07960 240 876

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