Write on Art 2025: Workshops and Resources
- 12 December 2024
In September, Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) and Art UK launched a call for proposals for an individual or collective to develop and deliver workshops and resources as part of our annual young people’s writing programme, Write on Art.
The call invited proposals for events or activities that would encourage young people to share their personal and critical responses to art and explore different forms of self-expression through writing.
We are thrilled to announce that Galia Admoni, poet and Head of English at Friern Barnet School in North London, has been appointed. Galia’s proposal was thoughtful and considered, championing young people’s exploration, creativity and emotive responses to visual material.
Galia is the author of Immediately After and then Later (Black Cat Press, 2024) and co-author of I get lost everywhere, you know this now (Salo Press, 2024). She has poems in Prototype 6 and Objects by Dunlin Press, The Rialto, Bad Lilies, The North, Anthropocene and others. She was commended in 2023 Primers, placed third in the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2022 and was shortlisted for both the Urban Tree Festival 2023 writing competition and the Poetry for Good competition in 2021.
The workshops will be delivered in galleries and museums in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
We were heartened this initiative has been met with enthusiasm from each institution and are delighted to announce that our four workshop locations are:
- Hopetown Darlington
- Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
- Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
- Ulster Museum, Belfast
In the next few months, Galia and the PMC learning team will meet with each institution, getting to know their collections, which will inform the design of the workshop and resources.
The workshops will be delivered between March and September 2025. The resources, which will be created in collaboration with the young people attending the workshops, will be available on the PMC and Art UK websites.
Applications for Write on Art 2025 will open in January.