Imagine Flora with Valerie Asiimwe Amani l Hospital Rooms Digital Art School

Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian artist and writer whose practice interrogates the representation of language, place and memory. Working between performative video, textile, collage and text, her works are interventions that aim to create communal links between the physical, metaphysical and mythical.
Inspired by gardens and flora, we will create abstract floral arrangements by transforming recycled paper, old newspaper and discarded fabric into a collage. Valerie will guide us through how she uses paper in her own practice, considering composition and the organic shapes we encounterin nature. The workshop will be accompanied by garden stories that incorporate the symbolism and histories associated with different local and foreign plants.
You will need:
Old magazines / newspapers / scrap papers
2 plain A3 sheets of recycled paper per person
Glue Stick
Gold pen
Printable Resource:
A4 Workshop Guide
Hospital Rooms is a London-based arts and mental health charity that radically transforms inpatient mental health settings with contemporary art.
While our usual work in mental health units is on hold, we have joined forces with internationally acclaimed artists to lead art workshops remotely from their studios and homes.
The artists leading these sessions have exhibited in many of the world's best galleries and have taught in some of the country's best art schools, including Royal Academy Schools, Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins. Over the coming weeks they will introduce you to their creative practice, help guide you to create your own artworks and answer questions along the way.
These workshops are for inpatient mental health units, as well as people accessing community mental health services and the wider public.
So grab a sketchbook, dust off your pencils, and get creative using #DigitalArtSchool​​​​. We would love to see your artworks, so please share them with us using the hashtag,​ or by tagging us on Instagram (@_hospitalrooms) and Twitter (@hospital_rooms)!
This project has been made possible thanks to the generous support of Arts Council England and Winsor and Newton.
www.hospital-rooms.com
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