Join In!
With a series of creative workshops and get hands-on with the design and construction of a permanent outdoor sculpture for UWE Bristol that celebrates overlooked nature in the city, working with artists Juneau Projects & Arnolfini.
See below for workshop dates and booking.
See the Project Archive page to see how the workshops and designs progress.
Come to the Making Space at Frenchay
The Making Space is our studio at Frenchay campus. We'll be running workshops where you can help make the sculptures for the grounds of new Student Accomodation Project. See below for more details about how to get invloved.
The Making Space is located in S Block, Room 2S510. Locate on the UWE Room Finder
Sign up for a free Workshop
In the first set of workshops we'll be working with clay to create large scale sculptures that will be cast in bronze.
The second set will focus on carving brick clay which will be fired to create large ceramic sculptures.
Artists Ben and Phil from Juneau Projects will be on hand to give guidance. No experience needed!
Aprons and hand washing facilities will be available.
Family Workshop
Tuesday, April 4
14:00 – 15:30
Making Space, Frenchay Campus - Room 2S510
This workshop will focus on making a large clay sculpture depicting moss and other plant forms that will eventually be cast in Bronze
This workshop will have a family emphasis, for the local community and UWE students and staff - all welcome!
Afternoon Workshop
Thursday, April 20
16:30 – 18:00
Making Space, Frenchay Campus - Room 2S510
This workshop will focus on making a large clay sculpture depicting moss and other plant forms that will eventually be cast in Bronze
For UWE students and staff on any course or department & the local community - all welcome!
Afternoon Workshop
Tuesday, April 25
16:30 – 18:00
Making Space, Frenchay Campus - Room 2S510
This workshop will focus on making a large clay sculpture depicting moss and other plant forms that will eventually be cast in Bronze
For UWE students and staff on any course or department & the local community - all welcome!
Lunchtime Workshop
Thursday, April 27
12:30 – 13:30
Making Space, Frenchay Campus - Room 2S510
This workshop will focus on making a large clay sculpture depicting moss and other plant forms that will eventually be cast in Bronze
For UWE students and staff on any course or department & the local community - all welcome!
Afternoon Workshop
Thursday, May 11
16:30 – 18:00
Making Space, Frenchay Campus - Room 2S510
This workshop will focus on carving brick clay which will be fired and used to make large ceramic sculptures
For UWE students and staff on any course or department & the local community - all welcome!
Afternoon Workshop
Tuesday, May 16
14:00 - 15:30
Making Space, Frenchay Campus - Room 2S510
This workshop will focus on carving brick clay which will be fired and used to make large ceramic sculptures
For UWE students and staff on any course or department & the local community - all welcome!
Afternoon Workshop
Thursday, May 18
16:30 – 18:00
Making Space, Frenchay Campus - Room 2S510
This workshop will focus on carving brick clay which will be fired and used to make large ceramic sculptures
For UWE students and staff on any course or department & the local community - all welcome!
Bryophyte Club?
A bryophyte is a small, rootless plant such as moss. In the city these plants often grow in overlooked places. They are part of the building blocks of an ecosystem, offering food and shelter for insects and other invertebrates. Despite their small size, they can help filter pollution from the atmosphere and act as a carbon sink in peat bogs.
This project will take inspiration from these overlooked pockets of nature, looking at the forms and ecological role of mosses and other small plants. Staff and students of all UWE Bristol campuses and invited to take part as well as residents that live close to the Frenchay campus, where the artwork will be located.
We ran the first stage of workshops between October and February where participants created model sculptures to come up with ideas for the final piece. See the Project Archive for full details of these workshops. Using these designs we created a Design Proposal (see below) which was presented to UWE Bristol for approval.
We are now in the second stage of the project. We are running another round of workshops where participants can help create the full sized sculptures. See above for more details. These workshops will continue until May 2023. Following that the pieces will be cast in bronze at Castle Fine Art Foundry and the brick pieces will be fired at Ibstock Almondsbury before installation in the ground of the new student accommodation block on UWE Brtistol's Frenchay Campus.
SAP3PublicArtDesignProposal_Arnolfini x UWE_JuneauProjects-compressed.pdf
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This is a joint project between UWE Bristol and Arnolfini
