Gender and Cloth 2025 Workshops 

Join our hosts Gabe Beckhurst, Jess Bailey and collaborators for the second edition of Gender and Cloth. Through hands-on workshops, museum collections and site visits, we 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.

This events programme is for young people aged 18–24 years old. While these workshops are intended for this age group, we are keen to be inclusive, and if you feel it would be particularly beneficial for you to attend, please contact our Learning Programme Manager, Rachel Prosser at [email protected].

Workshops will take place at various locations in London and Glasgow. All making supplies are provided free of charge and workshops are in-person only. All workshops are wheelchair accessible.

Spaces on the workshops are limited to create intimate discussion and instruction during hands-on sessions.

Registration is via Eventbrite and opens on 4 March.

Image Credit: Lubaina Himid, Never sleep inside the invisible (detail), 2011, acrylic and pencil on paper, 75 x 99 cm. Collage: magazine pages, 33.5 x 28 cm. Image courtesy of Hollybush Gardens. Photo by Andy Keate.