Collected Worlds - Assemblage & Drawing Workshop

Collected Worlds - Assemblage and Drawing Workshop

Join artist Fiona Stewart for a unique workshop exploring assemblage as a way into drawing.

In this experimental class we will construct small model boxes out of found objects whilst thinking about colour, composition and form. These Collected Worlds within a box, will then set the scene for stories to emerge, becoming the stage from which drawings develop.

In the first half of the workshop, Fiona will discuss her practice and give examples of artists using assemblage techniques. We will then make our own model-box constructions. After a short break we will produce monochrome drawing studies inspired by our assemblages.

About the Artist

Fiona’s world-building centres on the landscape as a theatrical set for narratives to unfold. Her creative practice encompasses painting, assemblage and printmaking as a way to fabricate an imaginative and consciously naive impression of place that is observed from the real world.

She studied theatre design at Edinburgh College of Art and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has exhibited in London and throughout the UK. She was shortlisted for the John Byrne Award in 2023 and is gallery artist with the Lido Stores Margate and the Lilford Gallery in Canterbury.

This class is for all levels and we will provide:

• Charcoal
• A selection of paints
• Drawing ink
• Scissors
• Air dry clay and white tack
• Tea and coffee

You need to bring: 

• Sketchbook A4 or A3 recommended (cartridge paper for charcoal, watercolour paper or thicker cartridge paper for ink drawing if you wish drawings not to buckle).
• Paintbrushes for ink drawings
• Graphite pencils -  if you don't want to use charcoal
• Eraser
• At least one box (two recommended). Shoe box size or smaller please.  Your box(es) can be made from cardboard, wood or anything else.
• Collected objects: Please bring to class a selection of found and discards things to build with. 

Suggestions include:

Natural materials like lichen, cones, shells, broken shells, sea glass, feathers, sticks, stones, dried flowers, seaweed and leaves.

Plastic waste like washed up broken plastic from beach combing, bottle tops, bubble wrap, plastic wrapping

Tin foil, tissue paper, rusty bits of metal, newspaper, painted papers

As long as they fit in your box there is no right or wrong, just collect items you find interesting!

Duration: 4 hours (2 hours assemblage), 15 minute tea & coffee break, 1hr 45 mins drawing time.

Price per person: £35 includes tea and coffee, download booking form here.