Saturday Art Workshop: The Labyrinth as Symbol and Ornament I / to the to the Expanding Our Collection: Acquisitions 2013–2025 exhibition exhibition

The exhibition Expanding Our Collection: Acquisitions 2013–2025 presents a selection of works acquired by GHMP over the past fourteen years and raises questions about the role of a public gallery in mapping and interpreting changes in the contemporary art scene. The works on display span a wide range of media: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, spatial installations and conceptual art.

During the Saturday workshops, we will focus on photography and experimental photographic techniques, as well as spatial art, drawing, painting, textiles and other conceptual and new media approaches and their combinations. Participants will try their hand at the roles of collector and curator: using selections from reproductions of the presented works (complete with details such as those found on inventory cards), they will create, compile and conceptualise their own small collections, determine programming lines and seek out stories, details, symbols and relationships between elements of images and objects. We will use textiles, clay and other unconventional materials to imprint our memories and presence.  Photographic exposures will then serve to capture both familiar and imagined landscapes. For school workshops, we will also use distinctive and inspiring themes, such as acoustic drawing, geometric abstraction and connections to literature, typeface and text. As part of developing digital competencies, we will incorporate creative mobile apps and programmes on tablets to create simple animations. The programmes aim to develop visual, information, communication and digital literacy, while fostering creative and critical thinking as well as civic engagement.