Artist Cath Keay invites people or families who would like to learn how to create their own edible mushroom sculpture to this free workshop, with forager and botanist-farmer Rosie Leagas.
Inspired by utopian Expressionist ideas for 'buildings that grow organically', Cath and Rosie will show you how to cast a sculpture using plaster moulds. The starter sculpture will be in the shape of buildings designed by visionary architect Hermann Finsterlin. The sculptures created in the workshop will grow edible mushrooms, which participants are invited to document, before harvesting and sharing with the group in a special mushroom feast on Bonfire Night, Saturday 4th November.
Join us for an interesting opportunity to learn about the connections between architecture and organic forms, growing mushrooms and art!
Register here for your free place.
Children are welcome, accompanied by an adult. If you have any questions or have any access requirements please get in touch: misa@deveron-projects.com.
Myco-utopias is supported by the RSA Residencies for Artists.
/About
Cath Keay graduated from Glasgow School of Art (BA Hons), Edinburgh College of Art (MFA) and completed a practice-based PhD at Newcastle University in 2010. Her doctoral thesis examined collaborative and un-authored strategies in sculpture and artists’ writing. Cath is interested in hands-off methodologies: ways in which dynamic forces or chance, can determine the final form of work, for instance utilising the action of insects or gravity to complete sculptures or prints.
Her practice focuses on sculpture and architecture as two ways of exploring form and materials, and she has been researching utopian Expressionist visions for self-generating materials or buildings that can grow themselves. On previous projects, Cath has worked with marine biologists, farmers and beekeepers to create collaborative artworks with bees, pigs and so-called 'pest' marine organisms.
