QYAC Workshop: Touch Moss!!

In this gentle workshop, Mars will share an open toolbox to come together and feel.

The aim of the workshop will be to share joy in current times, and also be present in the moment. 

A bit like feeling moss, with the moss being shared tools!! Aim is to feel your body in the current moment. 

There will be art materials to create and be silly together.

You are encouraged to come as you are, optional bring an item that comforts you. Feel free to just come and exist in the space with other people if needed. :> 

About the artist

Mars is a soon 23 year old artist person, currently becoming a marine biologist in real life after dropping out of formal art education. However, art can't be quit so they continue their arts journey in every way; its's all about feeling, queer-expression and nature!! Main mediums are, sound, performance and drawings! They find joy, comfort and inspiration in roaming around outside, touching moss for real or dipping their feet into the sea.

About Queer 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