Our workshops invite young people to explore art and art history using experiential and hands-on approaches through archive visits, artmaking sessions, behind-the-scenes tours and more. Whether inside or outside of formal education, studying art or art history or completely new to it, these workshops are open to all young people aged 18 – 24 years old who have an interest in these subjects and would like to engage with them in alternative ways.
Each autumn and spring a series of free, in-person workshops are offered that explore a topical art or art historical theme.
You are welcome to attend just one, the entire series, or a selection.
Spaces on the workshops are limited to create intimate discussion and instruction during hands-on sessions.
Past Programme
Gender and Cloth 2025
4 – 15 April
Join our hosts Gabe Beckhurst, Jess Bailey and collaborators for Gender and Cloth 2025. Through hands-on workshops, museum collections and site visits, we will celebrate how different communities have creatively explored gender through the cultural traditions of cloth. You will learn how artists work in different ways with textiles in art history from the worlds of banner making, batik and Risograph printing, using practices that foster social connection and belonging and deepen our understandings of identity, diaspora, family and protest. We will use our hands and minds to explore the ongoing significance of these traditions, learning how to think through storied legacies of specific techniques and asking how these practices of communicating through cloth can be taken forward.