HOUSE OF MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS: WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST SALLY KINDBERG
EVENT: HOUSE OF MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS: WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST SALLY KINDBERG
DATE: 16th April 2025 - 16th April 2025
TIME: 2PM - 4PM
VENUE: Wynter Room
PRICE: FREE (booking essential)
ARTIST/S: SALLY KINDBERG
WORKSHOP LEADER/S: SALLY KINDBERG
SUITABLE FOR THOSE AGED 6 TO 100
As there are only a small number of places available for this popular workshop, please only book if you can definitely attend.
Cut out and fold a paper Swedenborg House and fill it with your drawings of mysterious things. Live drawing, strange objects – you could bring your own – and a Whispering Cupboard to inspire you.
As part of our programme to celebrate the centenary of the present Swedenborg House being the home of the Swedenborg Society, we invite you to join acclaimed artist/author Sally Kindberg and have fun cutting out and folding into shape your own card model of Swedenborg House, which you can fill with drawings of your favourite objects from our archives, dream items you would love to see in our collection, or perhaps your favourite memories of visiting the building!
Sally will encourage with live drawing and visual prompts. You may be inspired by mysterious sounds emanating from the ‘whispering cupboard’ or by items from the archives that will be on display. (Swedenborg’s ear bones and walking stick will be viewable in the ground floor gallery as part of the current Hereafter exhibition).
Swedenborg House of Dreams is inspired by 2025 being 100 years of Swedenborg House.
Each participant will be given printed templates of Swedenborg House to fill with their images, to eventually cut out and fold into a free-standing model.
ABOUT SALLY KINDBERG
Sally has drawn comic strips for a four-book Bloomsbury series, including the Comic Strip History of Space. As her childhood ambition to be an astronaut has not (yet) been realised, she explored the outer galaxies by drawing them. She is the author/illustrator of Bloomsbury’s Draw It! series, including Draw It! London, all about one hundred wonders to discover and draw in the capital. During her time as a travel writer, Sally wrote and illustrated a regular column for the Independent on Saturday, sailed on a Tall Ship to Lisbon, and attended Elf School in Iceland. She is currently working on a book in comic strip form, has investigated and drawn the story of gold for the Bank of England Museum, made comic strips for CBBC’s Life Babble, and is the curator of a Museum of Dust, which includes samples from the Great Wall of China and Dr. Who’s Tardis.
