Rachel McGivern

Fat balls and berry-bead-bird-feeder-mobiles. Constructing beautiful edible sculptures at the Autumn Fair with @openhousecambridge @kettlesyard #wildlife #workshop (at The Grove Primary School) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoR2E0dhtl6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=68kpu0hjj1uq

‘A Thought in a Dish’ #workshop for the ongoing ‘Experiments in Art & Science’ partnership project between @kettlesyard and the @gurdoninstitute bringing artists and scientists together. Artist David Blandy has been looking at neurons (brain cells that process and transmit information) which are grown in the labs at the Gurdon Institute. 🔬 Following this research topic we created #petridish artworks, pondering what #neurons might say to each other. #cambridgebigweekend #artandscience (at Parker's Piece)

‘A Thought in a Dish’ #workshop for the ongoing ‘Experiments in Art & Science’ partnership project between @kettlesyard and the @gurdoninstitute bringing artists and scientists together. Artist David Blandy has been looking at neurons (brain cells that process and transmit information) which are grown in the labs at the Gurdon Institute. 🔬 Following this research topic we created small scale Petri dish artworks and pondered what neurons might say to each other. #cambridgebigweekend #artandscience (at Parker's Piece)

Outward-looking ideas 👁 @focalpointgallery Bronze Art Club’s final #workshop before the summer break. Messages from these young people: to the Southend beachgoers “Help us keep our oceans clean” and don’t litter 🐋🌊 LGBT equality (Southend Pride is next week 14th-21st) 🏳️‍🌈 “Go to the local library for greater knowledge” (if that’s the Forum also stop by Focal Point Gallery!) 📓 and the positive message that things “can still be bright”🌞✌️ (at Focal Point Gallery)

On summer days like these I wish I could always work outdoors. Fun Saturday spent in Shoebury Park with Kieren Reed’s #ParkExplorations project with @focalpointgallery Families tried out a range of playful activities, including making a #cyanotype with me from foraged leaves and flowers 🌾🌱🌿🌼 (at Shoebury Park)

@fpglearning Bronze group have been screenprinting posters about issues they care about: trans rights/ stop ocean pollution/ save the whales/ save the dolphins/ save the turtles #workshop #art #activism 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺 Inspired by the current exhibition @focalpointgallery ’Get Out And Push!’ showing British Free Cinema films like ‘March to Aldermaston’ anti-nuclear weapons and Ed Webb-Ingall’s installation ‘We Have Rather Been Invaded’ referencing the protests against Section 28 which banned the “promotion” of homosexuality by local authorities and in schools (at Focal Point Gallery)

Paint splattering and bubble blowing @sainsburycentre Holiday Studios #workshop today. We were inspired by Frei Otto's soap bubble research exhibited in the current 'Superstructures' exhibition but added a colourful twist (at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts)

Turning the classroom into a #screenprinting studio and the playground fence into a drying rack...#workshop inspired by a visit to the beautiful @kettlesyard 🍋 (at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)

When the sun is out, make sun prints! #cyanotype #workshop with @focalpointgallery Bronze Art group (at Focal Point Gallery)

🐅 wax resist pots #ceramics #pottery

Mucky mits Spring #workshop for little ones @kettlesyard 👐painting with plants and potting cress seeds 🌱🌱🌱#communityday #greenfingers (at Kettle's Yard)

Spot the new additions to the @kettlesyard #sculpture collection made at today's family #workshop (at Kettle's Yard)

Blueprints of the Essex landscape 🔷🔹#cyanotype #workshop with Richmond Avenue Primary School, taking inspiration from @focalpointgallery current exhibition #CATAStart #childrenandthearts (at Shoeburyness)

My obsession with the sculptor #CamilleClaudel continues from #InternationalWomensDay last year. #Risograph made at the fantastic @rabbitsroadpress printers. Trying to make drawing more than an annual practice and feel inspired by great #womenartists in history and today

Screen printing #workshop with North Cambridge Academy students 🔹🔷Learning the technique, printing my prepared screens and making their own stencil prints (I'm a proud owner of one student's super cool 🍍) This was part of a celebration event for those who entered the @kettlesyard poster competition, with all their fantastic designs now displayed on the gallery windows! 👏👏👏 (at Kettle's Yard)

〰To mould, to stretch, to roll. ➿Art in actions, taking inspiration from 'ACTIONS' exhibition @kettlesyard #fingergym #workshop (at Kettle's Yard)