Saturday 26th March

Ubuntu researchers have been working with Nottingham Contemporary to improve how art spaces can connect with different people across the city of Nottingham. Ubuntu invited the Legacy Makers family to take part in a creative workshop with artist Nadim Chaudry and facilitated by Natelle Morgan-Brown, Communities Programmer at Nottingham Contemporary.

During the workshop we experimented with textiles and sculpture. The workshop began with a plaiting exercise where everyone was split into groups of three and instructed to pick out three coloured strips of fabric. Our pieces of fabric were tied together and attached to the wall. We then worked as a team to plait our pieces of fabric together, moving in a sequence to produce our final pieces of fabric.

During the next part of the workshop we moved onto a folding exercise where we created casts for new pieces of fabric. The casts we created were made using the Japanese technique of Shibori folding. The group were able to take home their Shibori folding to bake in the oven as instructed by Nadim.

The final activity of the workshop was Freeform Sculpting. The group used polystyrene shapes and pieces of fabric kindly provided by Nadim to sculpt our own sculptures with. We finished our session with reflection and discussion lead by Natelle on what we had learnt and created together.