For our seventh series, the evening programme features 13 workshops across a range of creative disciplines, delivered by 11 local practitioners, spanning beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, with some running 6 weeks and others 9 weeks.
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If you have a question about our evening workshop or any of our other workshops in the programme, please get in touch with the Engage at Gray's Team and we'll do our best to help.
This 9-week series of hand-building workshops offers an introduction to ceramics for beginners. Participants will learn fundamental hand-building techniques through guided demonstrations and gain the skills to create their own simple forms.
This 9-week series of intermediate evening workshops is designed to help participants develop their ceramic projects through practitioner-led demonstrations and guided support. Throughout the workshops, you will explore a range of techniques, including hand-building, mould-making, casting, and finishing methods.
Join our 9 week evening workshop block to explore contemporary jewellery and small scale sculpture. Work with materials such as copper, aluminium, acrylic plastic and wood while learning techniques including piercing, texturing, roll printing, cold joining and soldering. Develop your ideas, respond to a creative brief and craft your own playful, small scale pieces.
Join us for a six-week introduction to lino printing with Laura Bremner, founder of Juniper Press. Across a series of evening workshops, you’ll learn the fundamentals of designing, carving, and printing with your own hand-carved lino blocks.
This 9-week series of evening workshops has been designed to provide beginners with the basic principles of Film Photography, a discipline also referred to as Analogue Photography. During the workshop you will be introduced to manual camera operation, darkroom practice, studio practice and the production of black and white prints.
The 9-week series of workshops is to provide guidance to those currently exploring Film Photography or Analogue Photography at an intermediate stage. The workshop will enable a further understanding of how to develop your manual camera techniques and will enable you to extend your practice using the darkroom and enhance the quality of the black and white prints you produce.
This 9-week series of evening workshops provides a comprehensive introduction to portraiture. Participants will learn fundamental techniques - from understanding facial structure and proportions to mastering lighting, colour mixing, and fine detail work.
This 9-week series of workshops guides participants through expressive figure drawing and painting using graphite, charcoal, ink, acrylic, watercolour and oil, working from a live model.
This 6-week workshop series introduces the intricacies of digital product photography, a form of digital photography. Participants will learn to photograph their own work using a DSLR camera, exploring fundamental camera techniques and methods for controlling light and colour to produce professional-quality images.
Immerse yourself in a 9-week creative journey exploring mark-making, collage, print, and textile techniques. Experiment with mixed media, screen printing, hand stitching, and punch needle as you cultivate your own visual language.
This 9-week evening workshop invites participants to explore the ancient craft of throwing; a method of forming pottery using a potter’s wheel. With a small group size of just five, the workshop offers tailored one-on-one tuition suitable for makers of all levels, from beginners to advanced.
This series of 9 workshops introduces participants to typography and print design, guiding them through creative exploration with various techniques and materials. Led by graphic designer Eva Crawford-McKee, the workshops cover a variety of practices, including hand lettering, moveable type, screen printing, and letterpress.