- When
- Tuesday 18 August
- Time
- 11:00 to 17:00
- Length
- 6 hours, including a break
A designer, architecture apprentice, and art therapy facilitator, she works with the principles of our inner "Mother Nature", using raw materials to bring the creation itself to life. A unique work, built collectively over the course of a day: an installation Lucia Maria calls the "womb of the space", which becomes the symbolic anchor point for the Art Space throughout the remainder of the residency. The piece is composed of cork, tiles, wood, and eucalyptus, elements that serve as a metaphor for the art therapy process taking place simultaneously. You leave as a co-creator of an elemental piece that remains on-site, while taking with you fresh guidelines to use as a reminder point on how you choose to embrace yourself in the individual and collective field.
It is built from natural materials: cork, tiles, wood, eucalyptus leaves and string. If there is a branch, a leaf or a stone you feel called to bring with you, it can go in too.
There are physical exercises to loosen what sits in the body, and guided space to step back from the mental and emotional field, and look at what is there to be acknowledged through the peaceful lens of the impartial observer: you.
The two halves hold each other up. Working with your hands on something shared is what makes the stepping back possible, and what you carry out at the end is both: a share in a piece that stays, and practical tools for your own emotional release, and for the patterns you already know you would like to work with.
No experience is needed. It is a long day with a break in the middle, and it is paced for harmony and balance rather than for finishing.
Meet the artist
Lucia Maria
Designer, architect and art therapist, and one of the residency's vegan chefs.
An artist in as many forms, her creative movement is expressed through wall art, murals, canvas and surface paintings, and project design installations built from wood, cork, or whatever can best support and represent the essence of the project. Behind all of it: an architect's training, a designer's practice, and an art therapist's eye.
She is also one of the residency's vegan chefs, cooking several of the To Gather Together dinners.
The practical part
What is included
- A full day of guided making, with a break in the middle
- All the materials: cork, tiles, wood, eucalyptus, string and the rest
- The art therapy process alongside the making: physical exercises, guided emotional release, and support in seeing the patterns you want to work with
- Your part in the installation that stays in the Art Space for the residency
- Practical exercises to take home and keep using
- A ticket to the Open House exhibition on 27 August
The Living Gallery
What you make here joins the Living Gallery: it stays with the Art Space Residency through the programme, on show until the Open House exhibition on 27 August.
What to bring
- Any natural piece you feel called to bring: a branch, leaves, a stone, anything you would like worked into the installation
- Clothes you do not mind getting glue on
- Swimwear and a towel, if you would like to use the swimming pool
Between 7 and 17 people
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