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How does craft and materiality intersect with activism?
Autograph
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA, UK
Tickets for this event launch on Friday 16th January. Register with Eventbrite to receive a notification when tickets launch
You can collect your printed ceramics from Autograph's gallery three weeks after the event.
Join us for an afternoon of collage with a craft twist where you will be guided through the process of transferring photographs onto a ceramic plate to memorialise untold stories and personal narratives.
The workshop will be led by artists Leonora Lockhart and Isis Dove-Edwin whose practices are informed by the history of ceramics and its connections to craft as a form of female resistance.
The session will begin with an introduction from the facilitators, who will expand on their research and demonstrate the wet transfer process. Participants will then be invited to create their own ceramic collage on to a plate using materials from their personal archives.
After signing up, you will be invited to submit a selection of images and text in advance. These will be printed onto decals and prepared for you to apply on the day. Extra decals will be provided if you do not have any images to use. Please note: finished artworks will be available to collect from Autograph's gallery three weeks after the workshop.
The ticket price for this event is £15 and includes all materials and firing costs. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If this ticket price is unaffordable for you, please get in touch with Harriet at harriet@autograph-abp.co.uk about free ticketing options.
Each year, Autograph has an Open Call for event proposals from emerging cultural producers who are working on a new or early stage project. For successful applicants, Autograph provides a budget, curatorial fee, and support to help make the event happen. This event is a result of our 2025 Open Call for Events: Methods of Making.
is a creative collaboration between Isis Dove-Edwin and Leonora Lockhart, two artists grounded in concept-led, materially driven practices. Emerging from shared conversations around balancing artistic careers with study and motherhood, 2nd Shift interrogates marginalised narratives situated at the intersections of our collective and individual identities: biculturalism, Blackness, neurodiversity, ageing, womanhood, and mothering.
As 2nd Shift, they seek to cultivate community, expand critical discourse, and dismantle the structural barriers frequently faced by artist-mothers. The collaboration is inclusive, welcoming all mothering identities. Isis explores diasporic stories of objects, skills, and people using West African domestic pots as inspiration for terracotta sculptural vessels. Leonora explores identity and material culture through ceramics and glass. She draws on personal narratives and research to reveal hidden histories within domestic objects.
Inspired by Autpgraph's current exhibition I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies, our creative workshop series explores contemporary approaches to montage, craft and digital methods of collage. Join us for one or all of the events in the series.
Autograph's events are popular, and often sell out. We recommend booking a ticket in advance. If you need to cancel your ticket for any reason, you can receive a refund up to 24 hours before the start of the event. You do not need to bring your paper ticket to the event.
The ticket price for this event is £15 and includes all materials, glazing and kiln costs. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If this ticket price is unaffordable for you please get in touch with Harriet at harriet@autograph-abp.co.uk about free ticketing options.
Everyone is welcome at Autograph. Planning a visit? Have a look at our Visit Us page to find out more about getting to the gallery, accessibility and more.
Autograph welcomes people with all types of disabilities.
This workshop will be seated.
Our building and entrance is step free. A wheelchair accessible lift goes to all floors.
This event will take place in our Studio, on the ground floor.
Due to capacity, tickets for this event are limited.
The ticket cost includes all materials and kiln firing costs.
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Banner image: Courtesy of Second Shift.
Images on page: Facilitator) Photo by Lucy Levene. Visiting Autograph) Photograph by Kate Elliott.
Part of the Series: Open Call)Henna Nadeem, Fence from the series Between Trees [detail], 1999-2000. Courtesy the artist. Weaving Stories) Nilupa Yasmin, Grow me a Waterlily [detail], 2017. Constructing Worlds) Work created by students at Thomas Tallis School. Courtesy Dafna Talmor. Being and Becoming) Sabrina Tirvengadum, Happy birthday to you [detail], 2025. Courtesy the artist. When Words Fail) Thato Toeba, Man on Fire [detail], 2017. Courtesy the artist.
Your Visit) Autograph, photograph by Kate Elliott.
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