Art Macabre Drawing Salon
Saturday June 25 (1pm-3pm), Free
A drop in, free workshop for all ages. Some basic drawing materials provided. Bring along paper, sketchpads and your favourite pens or pencils.
Flesh and bone, medicine and magic, life and death. Come and sketch the most poisonous of plants and the scariest of scarecrows as Art Macabre Drawing Salons venture outside into the garden. Resurrecting the fun of drawing with a lethal injection of the macabre, Art Macabre invite you to grab an artistic weapon of choice and make some killer marks with us. Explore the deadly powers of plants featured in the garden through art, as costumed curious characters such as ‘Wild Cherry’ and ‘Bella Donna’ bring to life the toxic tales of the plants and herbs they are posing as. Hunt for bones hidden throughout the garden. Create your own observational life drawings to take home or take part in a collaborative art work that will develop throughout the day. http://deathdrawing.wordpress.com
Technology Will Save Us
Plant Thirst Detector Workshop, Saturday July 23 (1pm-3pm)
Have you ever wanted to know when your plants are thirsty? Wouldn’t it be grand if they would turn a little light on to tell you they were dry? Join Technology Will Save Us for a workshop to make your own plant thirst detector units. Help the Physic Garden use technology in more creative and useful ways! Technology Will Save Us is a haberdashery for technology and alternative education space dedicated to helping people to produce and not just consume technology. http://technologywillsaveus.org/
Cyanotypes Workshop in our X-Ray Lab
Saturday 2 and 16 July, 2pm-3pm, 3pm-4pm. Free
Join artist Tom Flynn to make cyanotypes (sun prints) from plants, stencils and other materials in the Urban Physic Garden’s X-Ray Lab. A cyanotype is made by treating paper with a very simple photographic solution, the treated paper then reacts with sunlight to turns blue. Anything blocking the sunlight, i.e. the leaves of a plant, remain white and a negative image of the leaves are printed on the paper. This process can often create very detailed images. Learn new techniques, create some to hang in the garden and others to take home with you! www.tflynn.com
