Explore repetitive motif and freestyle pattern making on a large series of card.
Warning: This workshop will leave our fingers stained with colour!

Using magnifying glasses, explore the abstract patterns of bark, leaves, cobwebs, and moss. How does the detail that you see inform a design of your own?

Playful experimentation using a range of mediums, layering crayons, pastels, and dyes, and producing a series of rich patterns.

Spend the day sculpting small scenes to depict a wish, a favourite moment, or a wild fantasy.

Finished off with bold painted backgrounds, this inverted mask will reveal the thoughts inside your child’s head!

In this two-day mixed media workshop, we’ll be using a wide range of materials and tools to construct a feathered friend found in Aotearoa.

In this unique painting workshop we'll produce our own painted artworks inspired by artist Naomi Faifai’s visual compilations of symbols, motifs, bright colours and paint layering.

Following Faifai's practive of incorporating elements of her Samoan and Māori heritage while intertwining what she's thinking or feeling that day, we'll also take inspiration from our heritage and current states.

In this immersive two-day workshop, we'll delve into an range of collograph printmaking techniques using discovered and gathered materials. From the shoelace of your cherished Chucks, to an autumn leaf, or even that discarded mesh packaging unearthed in the garage - everything has potential to feature in this dedication to the found and foraged.

Our stories are not bound to one place, neither are storytellers!

Embark on a day of sensory delight and creative exploration! In this one-day workshop we'll be fully immersed in artistic expression through the use of a variety of tactile mediums.

With a focus on drawing exploration, we'll begin by moulding and squishing bright coloured plasticine to create interesting shapes for our drawing inspiration.

Students will become more experienced with the qualities of watercolour as they enter the lair of this mythical creature.

Become a recycling warrior and expand your understanding of what paper can be!

Make several sheets of unique paper, works of art in themselves, or the beginning of another creative process such as printmaking or painting.