Fun ways to celebrate forgotten women from history
Venue: Hay Castle Clore Learning Space
These workshops connect with local artist Steph Avery-Reynold’s Vivat Matriarchia Masters project currently on display at Hay Castle (1st floor mezzanine). The project commemorates forgotten women of history by creating objects left behind from an imaginary 17th century matriarchy, led by the remarkable Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), Duchess of Newcastle- Upon-Tyne, playwright, fiction writer, scientist and philosopher.
Cavendish imagined her own matriarchy in her proto sci-fi novel The Blazing World (1666) with microscopic lice-men as her minions. Her passion for microscopes placed her among the leading scientific thinkers of her day, and her writing reflected her fascination with scale.
The workshop will play with scale in creating drawings and etchings onto acetate and projecting upon the wall to create shadow portraits. It will also create clay MBE’s using press clay techniques for your chosen heroines and heroes most deserving of your crafted award.
These workshops are aimed at families and will take between one and two hours.
No previous experience is required - children are to be accompanied at all times.
