Upcoming Engage Workshops

Make an abstract window painting capturing views from the Art School. We’ll tape clear sheets of acetate to the windows and draw the view beyond, reimagining what we see outside through bold colours and abstract shapes.

Learn how to build sculptures with wire. After experimenting with cutting and bending techniques, you will design and craft your own final sculpture.

Be a design student for the day immersing yourself in the design process. Explore part of Gray’s Degree Show 2025 to collect inspiration for colour, shape, and pattern. Then, work in the studio to design textile concepts, alongside figure drawing to develop your own fashion and textile illustrations.

Join us for a 2-hour figure drawing workshop that combines essential life drawing techniques with creative exploration through a variety of mixed media.

Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll dive into the world of mono drawing, mono printing, and letterpress printing. This 2-hour workshop offers an opportunity to experiment with various techniques while developing your printmaking skills in a fun and engaging environment.

Join our fun, hands-on 2-hour workshop designed to spark creativity and imagination through playful collaboration. Explore how form, material, and meaning shape sculpture as you design playful public art proposals. Build small-scale models, then photograph and digitally transform them into vibrant posters reimagining your creations around the art school.

Join us, in our photography studio for a fun, 2-hour Light Painting workshop. Use torches, colourful glow sticks, and long exposure photography to create light drawings in the dark together. Watch your light trails come to life while learning the art of long exposure photography.

Young creatives are invited to explore the dynamic world of screen printing, learning how to transfer designs onto fabric. Using pre-exposed screens and DIY stencils, you’ll get to play with the bold branding from Gray’s Degree Show 2025, experiment, mix it up, and make it your own.

This 9-week evening course is designed to provide beginners with the basic skills required to hand build with clay. Throughout the duration of the course, you will focus on a number of different processes that will provide you with the basic skills required to construct your own three- dimensional form.

This 9-week intermediate evening course is designed to guide participants in developing their projects with tutor-led demonstrations and support. Throughout the course, you will explore a range of techniques for creating ceramics, including hand-building, mould making, casting, and finishing techniques.

Throughout this series of drawing and painting workshops, participants are invited to engage with both traditional and contemporary approaches to figure drawing. Participants can expect to learn measuring techniques, tonal drawing and painting techniques and are invited to experiment with movement and mark making techniques in order to produce their own studies of the human form.

This 9-week course has been designed to provide beginners with the basic principles of Film Photography, a discipline also referred to as Analogue Photography. During the course you will be introduced to manual camera operation, darkroom practice, studio practice and the production of black and white prints.

This 9-week evening course provides a comprehensive introduction to portraiture, covering fundamental techniques from facial structure and proportions to advanced topics like lighting, colour mixing and refining details. Suitable for beginners and those seeking to improve, participants will develop their personal style through demonstrations and hands-on practice.

During this 9-week evening course, you will learn how to prepare and transfer your designs from paper to fabric through screen printing using various techniques. This series of workshops is designed to help you develop your own projects with guidance from the tutor and is designed to support those working at both beginner and intermediate levels.

This 9-week evening course 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 course 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.