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Join us at Autograph’s gallery for an afternoon exploring creative writing, image-making and folding as forms of expanded archival practice and memory work
Guided by artist and writer Ishy Pryce-Parchment, this hands-on workshop invites participants to work with images from their own personal archives that hold significance in relation to memory, loss, cultural dis/locations and family.
Inspired by Pryce-Parchment's ongoing project Folding My Father (2020–), this workshop moves through a series of guided processes combining creative writing, work with reprinted photographic material and collage. Photographs will be scanned and reproduced onto recycled paper, becoming surfaces for writing, collage and mark-making. These image-text works will then be folded into sculptural forms using origami-based folding techniques. Together, we will explore the fold as both material process and metaphor, asking how these processes become ways of holding and reshaping our relationship to what is held in our archives.
After signing up, you will be invited to submit up to 3 digital images in advance and we will print these images for you to use on the day. Images from Autograph's archive will be provided if you don't have any images to use.
These images can hold ongoing personal significance and might depict:
- Somewhere you left, or call home
- Someone you miss
- A place of belonging or return
- A ancestor or family member
- A celebration moment
- A landscape or migration journey
- A home revisited through photographs
No previous writing or creative experience is required. All materials and refreshments will be provided.
The ticket price for this event is £10 and includes all materials. 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 2026 Open Call for Events: Reverberations in the Archive, exploring how legacy is preserved, transformed and carried forward in archives.
is a London-based interdisciplinary artist-scholar and cultural worker whose practice moves across visual culture, writing, film, and politically engaged curatorial practice. Grounded in Black studies, their work explores Black aesthetic and poethical traditions, the afterlives of slavery, and the relationship between memory, grief, and the archive.
Alongside their artistic practice, Ishy develops public programmes, seminars and research-led events with cultural institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, where they recently served as Seminar Director for On Black Study: Towards a Poethics of Contamination. Their writing on visual culture, race, archives and artistic practice has been published by Autograph and Skin Deep Magazine.
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 £10 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.
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Banner image: Courtesy Ishy Pryce-Parchment, 2020.
Images on page:
Previous outcomes and Facilitated by) Courtesy Ishy Pryce-Parchment, 2020.
Your Visit) Autograph, photograph by Kate Elliott.
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