Workshop: mask-making and masquerade with Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell
Sunday 4th August 2024 , 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Drawing inspiration from the longstanding traditions of mask-making and masquerade in the Caribbean and Nepal, join artist Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell to create masks which embody folkloric storytelling and honouring nature through ritual.
Maya will first ground the session, introducing her personal artistic practice and the deep research into mask-making and masquerade traditions in the Caribbean and Nepal that are so central to her work. She will speak to folkloric storytelling more broadly and the ways that this connects to nature, including in more Western tales and icons such as the Green Man.
We will then explore our own personal connections and memories to folklore through the creation of sculptural masks and fantasy ‘idols’ which pay homage to these stories and tales so central to our relationships to and understanding of land, nature, and the world around us.
All materials provided – no experience required!
Things to bring with you
Maya encourages you to bring along a theme/emotion you want to channel through your mask – this could be in the form of a memory, tale, or story which has been passed down to you and connects with themes of folklore and/or honouring nature through ritual, or something entirely different.
This workshop will take place either in our outdoor courtyard (if the weather is on our side!) or in our indoor courtyard room at our main site at Bow Arts Trust, E3 2SJ.
Concession rate applies to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists, National Art Pass members, and key workers
More about Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell
Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell graduated from BA Photography at London College of Communication (2021) and was a part of South London Galleries Radical Film School (2022) and Rhythm, Race, Revolution (2023), and currently studies at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Her graduate work ‘Adding A Face’ was selected for New Contemporaries (2021) and was also awarded UAL’s Mead Fellowship (2022 – 2023) which helped to fund the audio-visual works in her first UK solo show ‘Folklore Imaginary’ at 87 Gallery (2022).
Access information
The Bow Arts Trust courtyard has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 3967 1643.
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Fri, 9am to 5pm
Address: 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.
