Bow Families: Bringing your drawings to life with Rosie Gibbens
Sunday 30th November 2025 , 11:00am to 1:00pm
Join Visions Programme 1 artist and curator Rosie Gibbens as we create moving drawings and collages of bodies using small clocks. Children and families will draw some of body parts or use pre-made body parts provided to make a collaborative installation drawing at the end! Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.
Responding to the themes of Bow Arts’ Visions programme, children will make images of bodies and then tape parts (eyes/nose/limbs, etc.) onto the second hand so that they can come to life! In this workshop, children will learn a wide range of skills in drawings and making collages, as well as engaging in a highly collaborative making session.
This event is an inclusive, friendly environment which is accessible to all abilities and age groups.
Bow Families is a series of free, drop-in family art workshops that take place on the last Sunday of every month in the Bow Arts Courtyard Room. These sessions are a wonderful opportunity for local families to get creative and try something new! Each session is led by a Bow Arts’ Artist and all materials are provided.
More about Rosie Gibbens
Rosie Gibbens makes performances, videos, sculptures and photographs that feature her body. Using absurd humour, she explores the slippery overlaps between identity, labour and consumer desire. She often makes sculptures that combine household gadgets with sewn body parts. These are brought to life through low-tech chain reactions in the performances/ films. Rosie playfully blends bodies with objects to unpack and question the prospective future body as it becomes increasingly ‘optimised’ by technological augmentation. The mindset behind her work is of a nonsensical product demonstration combined with a perverse children’s TV show.
Solo exhibitions include Muta at Pippy Holdsworth Gallery, 2025 and Parabiosis at the Bomb Factory in 2024. In 2022 Gibbens was winner of the Ingram Prize, ‘Founders Choice’ award and undertook a Sarabande Residency funded by the Alexander McQueen Foundation.
Transport information
Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
