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The Portfolio programme offers additional opportunities for young people aged 14-18 years showing artistic promise to enable access to high level artistic practice. These workshops promote engagement with contemporary artists and access to specialist techniques in art and design.

This year’s artists include Menai Rowlands, Rachel Holian, Anya Paintsil and Wendy Connelly.

WORKSHOP 1

Menai Rowlands – 3D Character Design Sculptural Workshop 

Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th June 2021

Explore techniques in designing and making your very own unique 3D Character model with designer Menai Rowlands. Learn how to explore, develop and realise your ideas through using methods in drawing, painting and 3D paper modelling. 

Menai Rowlands is a designer maker based in Caernarfon, Gwynedd and graduated in a BA(Hons) Product Design from Swansea School of Art in 2015. She revels in working in mixed-media, collaborating and sharing ideas with other creatives.

See Menai’s work

WORKSHOP 2

Rachel Holian – Clay Workshop 

Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th June 2021

 “What we find when walking – Exploring the visual imagery of hidden worlds”

A two-day workshop where you will develop 3D modelling skills whilst exploring the exciting visual imagery of the natural world. You will be working with air drying clay and clay modelling tools, making a range of sculptural organic forms inspired by mosses bark and fungi.

Rachel is a clay and ceramics artist and a Lecturer in Art and Design at Coleg Cambria. 

See Rachel’s website

WORKSHOP 3

Anya Paintsil – Textiles workshop

Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th June 2021

Anya is a Welsh-Ghanaian from Wrexham who centres her practice on skills learnt outside an art education context; working with methods of rug hooking, embroidery, and afro hair dressing techniques to create wall based textile pieces. 

Drawing from personal narratives, her work frequently focuses on the significance of race and black identity outside of urban areas, feminism, memory, storytelling and fantasy. Anya is a recent Graduate from MMU and her Portfolio workshop will be centred around Textiles.

See Anya’s instagram page

WORKSHOP 4

Wendy Connelly – Masterclass in oil painting 

Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th June 2021

Oil Paint, Exploring Possibilities:

In this Portfolio Workshop I will be sharing the most exciting techniques in oil painting. I will guide you through the subtleties of mixing colour, working with glazes, impasto painting and many textures you can discover by making our own unique tools. I will be inviting you to explore my practice and take a close look into my studio set up and my latest paintings. The two-day workshop will provide you with the insight into my professional practice and the simple steps into developing confidence in working with oil paints. 

I have been a professional Artist since I graduated from Central St Martins and have been represented by many galleries both nationally and internationally.

Wendy’s website
Instagram @wendyconnelly_artist  twitter @RAWiStudios

How to apply

To book on any of these workshops please email your preference of workshop/s:

Ellie Ashby Formal Learning Officer at Tŷ Pawb: ellie.ashby@wrexham.gov.uk

Further information and details of each workshop will be sent out on confirmation of your place after the closing date.

There is a very limited number of spaces available on each workshop and places will be allocated amongst applicants to ensure maximum participant engagement should workshops become over-subscribed. You may apply for more than one workshop but places may be spread out to give as many young people an opportunity to take part.

Age: 14-18 Years old taking GCSE, A Level and BTEC Art and Design

Location: At present these workshops will be running over ZOOM online. 

*However with restrictions lifting we reserve the right to change the location to Ty Pawb as face to face socially distanced workshops and applicants will be notified of this in advance.

Cost: £15 per weekend workshop, bursaries are available for applicants in receipt of FSM Payment for this will be made via an Eventbrite Link once your place is confirmed

Timings: The workshops will run 10.30am – 3.30pm approximately

Materials: All your materials will be provided for the workshops and details will be sent out when your place is confirmed

Closing date for applications is Thursday 27^th May or sooner depending on demand. Early applications are encouraged due to number of places available.

Over the last few months we’ve been transforming Siop//Shop into Maker Space, an accessible studio, facilitated by Arts Council Wales, where artists, makers and designers from all backgrounds can develop their practices with a window onto the world.

The transformation work is now complete and we are delighted to announce our first Maker Space artist.

Georgia Nielson is currently embarking on her final year, studying a Fine Art degree at Glyndwr University, Wrexham.

Currently, the greater part of Georgia’s practice specialises in textile-based art, with an emphasis on rug-making and applique banner-making.  Distinctive and humorous stand out pieces are produced.

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‘I want to build a career doing what I love’

Georgia explains her Maker Space project: “This town has so much to offer and I want to flaunt it!”  

“Recently I’ve been making a lot of work about Wrexham, the town gets a pretty bad rep so I wanted to pick out some of my favourite imagery from around the town and bring back some of the nostalgia from growing up in the area.”

“I want to work closely with the Wrexham community, listening to their stories and finding and finding out what people love about the town.” 

“As I’m close to graduating this year I want to use this time to start to really set myself up for post-graduate life and hopefully begin to build a career doing what I really love”

Interactive workshops

Over the coming weeks and months (Covid regulations permitting) Georgia will lead workshops on skills such as rug tufting. It is hoped that skills learnt at these workshops will enable participants to go forward to produce their own products in the future

We’ll be following Georgia’s work on our website and social media channels as the project develops.

Stay tuned for more news and images!

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For artists and makers wanting to share their practice and teach skills online to a range of ages. These interactive, hands on training sessions will guide you through the planning, preparation and practicalities to help you lead fun, accessible dynamic online creative classes that inspire and engage your audience.

From creating bitesize videos and pre-recorded activities to leading live, interactive creative workshops through Zoom, these sessions will give you all the tools and confidence you need to get sharing your craft online!

The sessions will be hosted online via Zoom. Details will be sent to you after booking your place.

CREATING PRE-RECORDED ACTIVITIES

April 20th, 12:30 – 2:30

and

Saturday 1st May, 10:00 – 12:00

In this 2 hour training session, Rhi will lead you through the process of planning, filming and editing pre-recorded creative activities that inspire your audience to get making!

From Tik Tok style mini clips, to slow, mindful process videos, you’ll learn how to ensure your content is accessible and engaging, and how to maintain the attention of your audience to complete an at home creative project. You will learn how to edit and upload your content, and understand the best platforms to engage different audiences, as well as how to break down an activity into digestible chunks which make it easy for people to follow at home.

By the end of the session you will have come up with your very own masterclass master plan, and will be armed for all the practical know-how to get started with creative classes! In addition to the 2 hour session you will also be sent a digital workbook to help guide you through the process of planning your session, step by step, with lots of additional online resources and top tips!

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GET STARTED! HOW TO RUN DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE CREATIVE WORKSHOPS… LIVE! 

With a focus on engaging vulnerable adults.

Saturday 24th April, 10:00 – 12:00

and

Tuesday 27th April, 12:30 – 2:30

In this 2 hour training session, Rhi will lead you through the process of planning, preparing and delivering a fun and engaging creative workshop on Zoom that is accessible and inspiring.

You will learn how to break your activity down into easy to follow steps which build skills, interest and confidence. You will gain skills to nurture creativity in everybody, regardless of their own experience and confidence, and how to make sure you are taking accessibility needs into consideration, especially when working with vulnerable adults.

You will gain practical insight into the technicalities of running sessions online, as well as how to ensure safeguarding when leading workshops over Zoom. At the end of the session you’ll be well on your way to delivering exciting and engaging creative workshops online and you’ll be armed with a detailed workbook to help you think about the next steps.

These sessions will also be a lovely opportunity to meet other creative folk and share tips and tricks on facilitating workshops, and feel inspired about running sessions online!

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Young people from around Wrexham are being recruited to join a new Youth Advisory Board (YAB) at Tŷ Pawb.  

The YAB will work closely with the Tŷ Pawb team to help ensure a that a more diverse range of local young voices can be represented in the planning and development of future exhibitions and activities. 

The YAB will play a key role in supporting Wrexham’s multi-award winning arts, markets and community hub to engage with wider audiences, both online and for its activities in the building. 

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Introducing our new Creative Producer

The YAB is being recruited by our new freelance Creative Producer, Yasmin Begum (pictured), who will work with the group initially on evaluation of the Tŷ Pawb Open exhibition. 

The group will go on to take part in a series of workshops led by artist Harold Offeh; this will be an opportunity to explore the group’s aspirations for Tŷ Pawb and its future programme, and for themselves as local citizens.

Harold Offeh (pictured) is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. He previously offered mentoring at Tŷ Pawb as part of Wales in Venice 2019.  

Yasmin Begum is a writer, researcher and creative practitioner from Cardiff. She has worked with organisations including Film Hub Wales and is a former editor of youth-led magazine The Sprout.  

“We’ll be taking an active role in the planning and evaluating of Tŷ Pawb’s arts programme”

Yasmin said: “I’m really excited to be taking on this role with Tŷ Pawb. Over the last few weeks I’ve been working with the team and with partner agencies to identify young people with an interest in the arts who would like to participate and we’ve started to put together a really strong team of diverse local young voices. 

“We aim to work with young people to broaden skills and boost confidence, providing unique opportunities. I’m especially interested and thrilled to be working as a Creative Producer on this project because I know, first-hand, how important and life changing initiatives like this can be, especially having been a beneficiary of projects like this historically as a young person.

“We’ll be taking an active role in the planning and evaluating of Tŷ Pawb’s arts programme, working in conjunction with local young people in and around the Wrexham area.  This will include exhibitions and activities that take place in the building as well as the new digital and outreach strategy to engage with youth groups.

“There are so many exciting exhibitions and projects in the pipeline for the coming year. We are all really looking forward to getting stuck in, starting with our workshops working with Harold Offeh, a multimedia artist and educator. ” 

Respond and Reimagine

The Youth Advisory Board project has been made possible thanks to a grant provided to Tŷ Pawb by Art Fund as part of the Respond and Reimagine project.

The grants aim to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond to immediate challenges connected to the Covid-19 crisis, and offer support to adapt and reimagine ways of working for the future. 

As well as the new Youth Advisory Board, the grant has also funded a brand new doorway into Tŷ Pawb’s main gallery. This allows visitors to enter the gallery directly from the market hall, making the exhibitions more visible and accessible to the public. It has also enabled a one way system to be put in place in the gallery, making it easier for visitors to socially distance.

A ‘fantastic’ achievement

Cllr Hugh Jones, Wrexham County Borough Council’s Lead Member for Communities, Partnerships, Public Protection and Community Safety, said: “The Tŷ Pawb team must be commended for their achievement in successfully securing this hugely valuable Art Fund grant. Less than 18% of the bids were successful which shows the strength of the bid Tŷ Pawb put forward and the exceptional work the team have put in to developing this innovative project.

“The Youth Advisory Board will help us to take a fresh approach as we plan our programme of exhibitions and activities in the post-Covid world. This will include prioritising our engagement with broader audiences, supporting our commitments to the Well Being of Future Generations Act and ensuring Tŷ Pawb can be welcoming and accessible for everyone.”

Art Fund’s Respond and Reimagine grants offer flexible and responsive funding to help museums adapt to the challenges of the Covid-19 crisis and reimagine future ways of working.

The UK’s museums provide inspiration, joy and education, enriching lives and bringing communities closer together, but the impact of Covid-19 has been catastrophic for many. In the last six months,

Together for Museums – an urgent appeal from Art Fund

Art Fund received applications totalling over 16.9m from 451 organisations for its £2.25m Respond and Reimagine funding, which is now exhausted. But with six in ten (60%) museums Art Fund recently surveyed worried about their survival, and 92% of museums saying they need to ‘adapt and innovate’, the charity has launched an urgent new public fundraising appeal: Together for Museums. It aims to raise £1 million to help more museums adapt to today’s challenges and evolve.

Art Fund is appealing to the public to make donations of any size. From just £25, unique objects and artworks are available as rewards, donated by leading artists including Lubaina Himid, Anish Kapoor, Michael Landy, Melanie Manchot and David Shrigley.

www.artfund.org/together 

Image: Yasmin Begum and Harold Offeh (Harold photo credit: Chris O’Brien)

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Children from North Wales’ Syrian refugee community have been taking part in a series of online art workshops designed to help build community cohesion and tackle social isolation.

Fourteen Syrian refugee children from three counties across North Wales joined the Drawing Connections project, organised by Engage Cymru and led by artist Wendy Connelly of i-RAW Studios with support from Tŷ Pawb.

As part of the project participants were also taken on a virtual tour of The Tŷ Pawb Open, an exhibition celebrating lockdown creativity.

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Building skills and improving wellbeing

As well as helping to improve community cohesion and well-being, the workshops are designed to help participants towards gaining an Explore Level Arts Award – a national qualification that supports young people who want to deepen their engagement with the arts and build creative and leadership skills.

The project has also acted as a pilot for Arts Award training online for young people with English as an additional language.

Drawing Connections has been funded by Arts Council of Wales, Wrexham County Borough Council Community Cohesion Team, business partner Wales and West Housing Association and Arts & Business Cymru through the CultureStep programme.

Engage Cymru would also like to acknowledge additional support from Wrexham Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme, Wrexham EAL Service and the British Red Cross case worker teams across Denbighshire, Wrexham and Conwy.

A great example of Tŷ Pawb working with other organisations

Cllr Hugh Jones, Wrexham County Borough Council’s Lead Member for Communities, Partnerships, Public Protection and Community Safety, said: “The Drawing Connections project is another great example of Tŷ Pawb working closely with other organisations to support communities through the arts.

“Throughout the pandemic Tŷ Pawb has continued to offer an excellent arts service remotely, the aim being to help people stay connected through these challenging times. This has included distributing art packs to local families, offering free activities for families, online training and commissions for artists, live streaming music performances and an excellent virtual tour of the new Tŷ Pawb Open exhibition.”

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Tŷ Pawb may be closed this half term but that’s not going to stop us from giving you heaps of exciting free activities for you to try at home!

From vegetable printing to bunting and bugs in bottles, there’s a different activity to try every day during half term 🙂

Plus you can download our family activity pack to help you enjoy our brand new virtual gallery tour!

Head to our half term activity page to download the activities.

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