Workshop: exploring dream states and glyphic communications through clay with Haydn Albrow
Saturday 10th August 2024 , 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Grounded in ideas around universal languages, dream states, and the deep memories that objects hold, join multi-disciplinary artist Haydn Albrow as we build our own clay vessels to act as carriers and homes for our dreams.
For many people, objects have a special power to act as carriers for internal thoughts, memories, dreams, and feelings. They enable us to both archive and share fleeting or ephemeral memories and realise them in physical form.
It’s this sentimental and living nature that objects hold which Haydn will home in on in this hand-building workshop, building on their ongoing research into hieroglyphics, early manuscripts of dreams, and different representations of universal languages through symbols, gestures, and characters. In a merging of their artistic practice with their pottery business Haydo’s Pots, we will be moulding pinch pots to act as carriers and homes for our dreams.
After moulding your pot, Haydn will encourage you to imagine your own abstract visual ‘language’ to communicate a dream or memory that you hold dear. Through a medley of glyphs, markings, shapes, grooves, and patterns, we will engrave visual representations of our memories and dreams into our pinch pots, creating individual treasures which pay homage to the memories and dreams we collect throughout our lives that make us who we are.
After the workshop, Haydn will fire and glaze your creations, so they are ready for you to collect from the Nunnery Gallery after the workshop.
All materials provided – no experience with clay is required!
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 Haydn Albrow
Haydn Albrow is a London based artist whose practice explores tangible and textural works spanning across multiple platforms including sculpture, installations, poetry and sound. Her work is inspired by dreams, language and the ways in which we interpret the two. Using reoccurring motifs throughout her work such as teeth and the body, Albrow’s practice straddles the grotesque and humorous.
Albrow’s work addresses themes of the conscious and unconscious mind; thinking of our brain as a machine that manipulates and interprets memories, language and dreams into sensical thoughts. In particular their work explores the ways we attempt to share our dreamed experiences and the difficulties we face in conveying their ephemeral sensations and sentiments. There are gaps in our language that cause us to struggle to articulate these unique and deeply personal experiences and the artist tries to use physical materials to create a new form of dialogue for when words fail us.
Albrow studied MFA Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art (2018-21) and BA (Hons) Fine Art at The Cass – London Metropolitan University (2016). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Strangers in the Night’, Somers Gallery (2023), ‘Bye Bye Cowboy’, Arusha Gallery (2023), ‘Bankley Open’, Bankley Gallery (2023), ‘Full to Bursting’, Staffordshire Street (2023), ‘Skin of Your Teeth’, The Crypt Gallery (2022), ‘London Grads Now’, Saatchi Gallery (2021).
Albrow also started her ceramic business Haydo’s Pots in 2020, creating handmade wobbly pots with twisting and wiggling handles. Each piece is completely unique and made, glazed and fired by Albrow herself. She sells her pots across London in makers markets.
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.
