QYAC Workshop: Messy Play

Get messy (or not) at this laid back sensory art making workshop. Inspired by my work with toddlers and QYAC young artists making art, we'll take the pressure off the end result and play with textures, colours and sounds. Expect to make some wacky paintings, don't expect perfection.

Come roll trucks thru poster paint and make masterpieces for the fridge"

This workshop is meant to create a cross generational space for queers who are 18+ but also queers with young children. So whether you are a young  queer adult, a parent or guardian with accompanying child, come along and let’s create a creative mess together.

Demographic:

Queer people 18+

Or Queers with children 

(Children will need supervising from parent or guardian to participate)

About the artist

Feygl is a facilitator and youth worker who has been working with Queer Youth Art Collective since 2021.

AboutQueer Youth Art Collective (QYAC)

This workshop is part of the Queer Youth Art Collective exhibition What Was, What Is, What Could Be- an exhibition by Queer Youth Art Collective (QYAC) following on from their three-month residency at Camberwell Space.

Queer Youth Art Collective is the UK’s only national LGBTQIA+ youth service working specifically in the arts. During their Camberwell Space residency, creatives aged between 18-28 were selected through an open call and introduced to what a studio practice could look like. This included workshops and mentorship from technicians as well as other members of staff at Camberwell College of Arts.

This exhibition marks a turning point, handing the reins of the organisation over to the young artists, alumni and community which has surrounded QYAC. Since 2019, QYAC has curated four group exhibitions with hundreds of queer artists from across the UK including at Bluecoat Liverpool, Glasgow Zine Fest, Curious Arts Newcastle, Studio Voltaire and QUEERCIRCLE.

The work of the residents in the exhibition will be accompanied by an archive of seven years of QYAC, curated in partnership with The Museum of Transology (MoT). The archive will then move to Bishopsgate Institute following the show.

Alongside this, a newly commissioned textiles piece called The Hanging Archivewill be in display, co-produced by QYAC attendees, facilitators and alumni as well as contributions from The Brunswick Centre LGBTQ+ yOUTh Service (Kirklees and Calderdale), Out Together (Leeds), HuGG Huddersfield Gay Group, Frutti Tutti (Leeds), Proud Terriers (Huddersfield), and Curious Arts Middlesbrough Curious Young Creatives.

In the words of QYAC - ‘We refuse censorship or judgement. In doing so we make more art possible’.

With generous support from Arts Council England, David Family Foundation, UAL and Awards for All.

For more information about the residency: www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/camberwell-college-of-arts/whats-on/camberwell-space/queer-youth-art-collective