Please note: this is a free drop in event, no ticket needed. It will take place in The Hidden Gardens Medicinal Courtyard.
Inspired by the endangered corpse flower and surrealist exquisite corpse game, artist Jacky Cheetham invites you to play with clay as a way to process, absorb and document the themes, questions and conversations you have explored over the festival.
Exquisite Corpse is a collective surrealist game in which participants assemble an image or object, usually following a prompt, with the final creation being revealed only after the last contribution.
The corpse flower is an endangered plant that has recently bloomed several times in the last decade at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Using this unique flower and experimental game as a moving off point, artist Jacky Cheetham presents a large-scale open clay collaboration that will offer a place to meet for informal making and discussion, to collectively absorb and explore the themes and questions shared throughout the festival by working with clay.
About the facilitator:
Jacky Cheetham is as an Artist and Teacher. He works with sculpture, video, and installation, as well as designs and delivers accessible workshops to develop shared skills and interrogate realities of consumerist cultures, labours, and legacies, collaborating with various organisations including Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Artlink: West Lothian/Edinburgh, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Clyde College, and Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Recent exhibition projects include: trapped in a coffin with nothing to do… CCA: Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow (2023); cview, Gallery Celine, Glasgow (2020-2022); FASHION DUST UMAMI, Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2021), GESTS, Curfew Gallery, Edinburgh (2019); John, fffriedrich Gallery, Frankfurt Am-Main (2018); BRED, Bloc Projects, Sheffield (2018); Good £uck, Glasgow International, Glasgow (2018).
www.instagram.com/jackycheetham
Access information for this event:
This is a drop in, family friendly event. It will take place in the The Hidden Gardens Medicinal Courtyard. For full access information visit The Hidden Gardens’ website: thehiddengardens.org.uk/explore/visit.
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