Join us on Slow Boat in Brindleyplace for a day of free family-friendly weaving activities with artist Alis Oldfield.
Coinciding with Ikon’s exhibition Thread the Loom, the workshop explores simple weaving techniques that can be recreated at home. For this event, Slow Boat is moored at Brewmaster’s Bridge (behind the Sealife Centre), just a few minutes walk from Ikon Gallery.
Weaving is holding things (usually string) in tension and relation to one another. In this workshop, participants try weaving images together of things they want to relate or hold in contrast to each other. By making a simple loom or by trying different weaving patterns, participants see what visual effect they can make from layering and complicating images.
About Slow Boat
With the support of Freelands Foundation, over six years (2021-27) Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) navigates the waterways on board Slow Boat, a converted narrow boat. IYP are collaborating with creative thinkers and makers to reimagine Slow Boat as a local art school.
About the artist
Alis Oldfield is an artist, educator and PhD candidate based in Birmingham, interested in networks both digital and cultural, infrastructural and metaphorical. Her research is rooted in ecology, storytelling, craft and technology.
