Rural Arts provide a range of workshops and projects that use recycled materials from manufacturing and household waste in a variety of ways to create original and attractive objects. Artists will bring some materials to the workshops and participants will be asked to bring their own 'junk'. The workshops can be adapted to suit either individual work or large scale group pieces and are particularly useful in encouraging children and young people to adopt an environmentally friendly outlook.
Clippy & Hooky Rugs:
Use traditional methods and modern design to create soft furnishings, rugs and bags from recycled woollen clothings and blankets.
Junk Instruments:
Create percussion instruments from plastic cartons, tubs, food packaging. Once the instruments are made the group can create their own musical performance.
Junk Jewellery:
Create earrings, brooches, bracelets and necklaces from materials such as plastics, polythene, wire, paper and recycled fabrics.
Junk Puppets:
See Drama section
Metalwork:
Create lightweight 3D decorative objects from recycled sheet aluminium and copper, food and drink cans, wire coathangers and so on. Participants will need to be at least 10 years old as tools such as wire cutters, hammers, rivet gunds and files will be used.
Newspaper Body Sculpture:
See Paper to Print section
Paper Mache:
See Paper to Print section
Sculpture:
Let your imagination go wild and create fantastic giant sculptures from materials that would normally be thrown away. Plastic bottles and bottle tops, cardboard packaging, polythene and coloured plastics. This workshop is suitable for all ages and from toddlers upwards.
Hat making:
This workshop results in larger than life, wearable hats that can be incorporated into costume work for a performance and can be designed with a particular theme in mind. Hats can be made from a range of materials including recycled and found such as plastic bags and fabrics.
Suitable for ages 6 upwards.
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