Finding the Lost and Left Behind: A Workshop Fri 14th March

Finding the Lost and Left Behind

Date: Friday, 14th March

Venue: Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery

Workshop: 3pm – 5pm

Sharing: 6.30pm – 8pm

To celebrate Gillian Lee Smith’s show, “The Lost and Left Behind,” you are invited to take part in this unique creative writing event.

“The Lost and the Left Behind” explores connections and memories that are accumulated, embellished, diminished, and sometimes lost and even rediscovered over time. While the work represents and honours our collective heritage, our ancestors, and those who have come before us, we are also invited to view ourselves with the same curiosity and reverence as those we hold dear. What if we were to create/recreate or even imagine stories that are familiar and celebrate our uniqueness—to connect with ourselves, our memories, and our human experience?

In this 2-hour workshop, you will consider the themes of Gillian’s work and create three pieces of creative writing, responding to notions of what we preserve, what we discard, and what we send off into the future.

In the evening, there will be a quiet sharing session, with an opportunity to share, destroy, or post your work to your future self.

We will be joined for the sharing by young poets from Duchess Community High School’s Poetry Club, who will have been writing new pieces using the same prompts.

Booking essential: 15 places maximum.

Biography

Scotland-born artist Gillian Lee Smith explores the lost and found, connection and heritage, and the past and how it has shaped us. Previously working as a reminiscence worker with older people, she has a fascination with our own personal stories where the seemingly ordinary is made extraordinary. Originally completing a degree in Performance Costume from Edinburgh College of Art, Gillian graduated in 2005 and has rooted her practice in drawing and painting ever since, exhibiting locally and nationally. Living in Northumberland for the past decade, Gillian has found a great deal of inspiration in the people, industry, and landscape of our local area.

For any further details please  email  peoplemakealnwick@bailiffgatemuseum.co.uk