Make macabre marks and get sketching this Samhain! Take part in a theatrical life drawing salon with a deathly twist...Art Macabre is back for one night only for Halloween at Towner in Eastbourne! Celebrate Halloween in Sussex in style with us for 2024.

Take inspiration from a costumed model as they pose with props, projections and an atmospheric soundtrack to conjure up tales of forgotten folklore. During the session you will be guided through narration and storytelling, with the host suggesting materials and drawing prompts.

All levels of drawing confidence welcome and all materials provided (charcoal, pencils, oil pastels), but feel free to bring a favourite pen or sketchbook. No paints / wet materials, please. Drinks and snacks will be available to purchase from Towner's bar throughout the event.

Hosted by Originary Arts (originary.co.uk), a Brighton based arts company who believe that everyone can enjoy being creative given the right inspiration, tools and support. Originary Arts have held life drawing workshops at galleries, museums and festivals around the UK including Tate, National Gallery and Tower of London. 

Make macabre marks and get sketching this Samhain! Take part in a theatrical life drawing salon with a deathly twist...

Take inspiration from a costumed model as they pose with props, projections and an atmospheric soundtrack to conjure up tales of forgotten folklore. During the session you will be guided through narration and storytelling, with the host suggesting materials and drawing prompts.

All levels of drawing confidence welcome and all materials provided (charcoal, pencils, oil pastels), but feel free to bring a favourite pen or sketchbook. No paints / wet materials, please. Drinks and snacks will be available to purchase from Towner's bar throughout the event.

Hosted by Originary Arts, formerly known as Art Macabre. Tickets are £15 and over 18s only - via https://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/events/gothic-folklore-life-drawing-salon-with-art-macabre

Want to keep the scares coming? Stay (if you dare) for Cult Film Club's screening of The Blair Witch Project. And other films are playing at the Towner Cinema earlier that day too such as Addams Family- so make a day of it?

Make Space for Play Every Day - Nikki Shaill leads a dynamic workshop as part of Brighton Summit 24/7 theme in October 2024. Take part in this workshop, as part of the Brighton Summit one day programme of speakers, workshops and connections by Brighton Chamber. Full programme and tickets here: https://www.brightonsummit.com/sessions/making-space-for-play-every-day/

Sketch scenes of oversized sunflowers and create poetic portraits with Originary Arts. Paying tribute to the paintings of Vincent Van Gough, real-life lovers Sian Carousel and Nikki Shaill will pose to inspire your playful portraits. A gender-bending tribute to Van Gogh and his iconic artworks. Capture colour, a costumed model couple and create imaginative drawings as you listen to a soundtrack of music. Listen to some poetry performed at intervals to help inspire you too! 

A drop-in free families workshop that will encourage you to doodle, layer up mixed media and play with layers of colour and texture.

This workshop will take inspiration from Tate Modern’s latest Turbine Hall installation. From 20 July to 26 August 2024, Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall will be transformed by Oscar Murillo’s new installation The flooded garden. Taking inspiration from Claude Monet’s Water Lilies and the garden in which he painted them, visitors will be invited to paint water and waves onto a monumental wall of canvas, creating a layered, collaborative painting of epic proportions.

Come and create your own layered artwork, mark making with pastels, crayon and paint markers on acetate, to take home with you. Inspired by the concepts and techniques of Oscar Murillo and Claude Monet’s Water Lilies artworks.

More info: https://www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/content/tate.htmlImage:
Photo by Tim Bowditch and Reinis Lismanis, courtesy the artist. Copyright © Oscar Murillo.

Originary Arts curates a family festival at the Garden Museum in Lambeth! One day of fairytale themed workshops, performances, storytelling and arts inspired by the magic of growing. For ages 4-11, and their grown ups. Let your imagination grow wild with theatrical storytelling fun from London Dreamtime, Usifu Jalloh, Bertie and Bow, Arkem Mark Walton, Nat Funni and more. Plus arts and creative making workshops with Originary Arts’ Sian Carousel, Rapunzel portrait drawing with Frankie Cluney plus mask making with Sean O’Brien. Circus skills with Ella the Great’s Mini Circus and gardening growing activities outside too. So much to get involved in all set within a beautiful Medieval Church -the Garden Museum’s home!

For the full programme and tickets see here: https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/festival-of-fairytales-2024/

Playful Pavilion Dreamscapes with Originary Arts

Part of Serpentine Gallery’s Family Day, join in for free Playful Pavilion Dreamscapes with Originary Arts. Collaborate with other families to create dream pavilions together! Artist facilitators from Originary Arts will be on hand to help inspire designs that will turn everyday objects and materials into amazing architectural designs. All ages can work together to make playful structures that will evolve and develop throughout the event. Families can engage their wildest and whimsical imagination and take inspiration from Cho’s design. Let's see what the architects, artists and space-makers of tomorrow dream up today!  Full info about the whole day here: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/pavilion-family-day-2024

Join Originary Arts’ guest facilitator Christina Rose Brown at Tate Modern Late to play with paper, shapes and shadows and make your own model of an imagined light sculpture. Model making is one of McCall’s essential steps as he works on finalising ideas. Fold, cut and stick to design a dream sculpture that you can bring to life with a phone torch light.

Originary Arts invites you to pay tribute to the iconic circus artist Miss La La! Roll up, roll up and sketch contemporary aerialist and hula hooper Blaze Tarsha as she performs and poses for your drawing delight.

Part of National Gallery’s Friday Late, this event is free and materials are provided. All ages are welcome.

We will explore the legacy of Miss La La, as part of the Degas exhibition of sketches and paintings of her. Come conjure up the spirit of vintage French circus with us!

Blaze Tarsha is a talented and versatile performer that brings a special and unique presence to any performance. BSpecialising in rotating hoop, Hula Hoop and Physical theatre.

Photo: National Gallery (c) featuring Blaze Tarsha in front of Miss La La by Degas

BOOK NOW to take part in a FREE creative workshop as part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week! 

Printing Power invites you to play with different printmaking techniques and create mixed media art prints at a workshop with Originary Arts! 

Monday 18 March, 4:30-5:30pm 

Brighton Met College - Pelham Campus

This workshop is for neurodivergent people aged 16-25

Friday Lates life drawing with Originary Arts

Celebrate Dame Paula Rego's connections to the National Gallery in a life drawing session led by Originary Arts

This event is part of Friday Lates.

Friday, 20 October 2023

Session times

• 6.15 - 7 pm

• 7.15 - 8 pm

Room 32

About

Explore and experiment with your own expressive mark-making at our drawing event presented by Originary Arts. 

The session takes inspiration from Dame Paula Rego’s monumental painting ‘Crivelli’s Garden’, which depicts courageous and strong women found in Biblical history and folklore. Originary Arts will guide you through making your own sketches, portraits and doodles, whatever your level of ability.

Image: Photo © Hydar Dewachi

Further info

A soundtrack of recorded music will be playing throughout this event, at a low level, but feel free to bring your own headphones or ear plugs if you would like to.  

Stools are provided, as well as floor seating. There is space for wheelchair users.  

Limited materials are provided but you are welcome to bring your own sketchbook and pencils.  

The workshop is repeated twice on the evening. You may attend one session only. Please pick up a wristband in the room from 5.45 pm to secure your entry to a session.

What will your Ugly Bug Ball alter-ego be? Make masks and develop moves inspired by insects, arachnids and creepy crawlies featured in global fairytales, folklore and fables. Play with paper and colour to make unique masks with Originary Arts. Then get ready to proudly parade what you’ve made around the festival! 

Explore the strange beauty of mini-beasts and their mythology. Take inspiration from creatures who feature in stories from around the world, from arachnid tricksters to grumpy snails from Danish fairytales. All ages can get ready to wriggle, wiggle and waggle dance at The Ugly Bug Ball, with insect-inspired moves and grooves.  

£12 Adults
£5 Children (under 16)
Under 4s free

Tickets and full programme here

Friday Lates: Drop-in life drawing- Originary Arts x After Impressionism: 2 free sessions, 6.15-7pm & 7.15-8pm (free but wristband required)

Join artist Nikki Shaill and creative company Originary Arts for an evening of life drawing inspired by the colour, form and experimentation of Post-Impressionist artworks.

Explore and experiment with your own expressive mark making at our drawing event presented by Originary Arts. Play with pattern, colour and line using pens, pencil and paper, taking inspiration from costumed models and props, whose poses take their cues from our exhibition 'After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art'.

Tableaux will showcase the colour palettes, sculptural forms and themes of these paintings, with particular focus on the women artists and figures portrayed of the time, including Sonia Delaunay’s paintings and Camille Claudel’s sculptures. Bringing to life some of the artworks and conjuring up the playful spirit and vibrancy of the exhibition, Originary Arts will guide you through making your own sketches, portraits and doodles, whatever your level of ability. 

A soundtrack of recorded music will be playing throughout this event, at a low level, but feel free to bring your own headphones or ear plugs if you would like to. 

Stools are provided, as well as floor seating. There is space for wheelchair users. 

Limited materials are provided but you are welcome to bring your own sketchbook and pencils. 

The workshop is repeated twice on the evening. You may attend one session only. Please pick up a wristband in the room from 5.45 pm to secure your entry to a session. Free sessions

A wristband is required to attend one session. Wristbands will be allocated in the room from 5.45pm on a first come, first served basis. Please only attend one session.

You will also need to book a free Gallery entry ticket to gain admission to the National Gallery. We encourage you to book ahead of your visit.

Please note, Gallery entry does not guarantee admission to this event.

MORE INFO HERE

Baribican Member and guests can join us after hours and get behind-the-scenes of Hot Off the Griddle and them's the breaks at an evening of art, talks, DJs, drinks, and workshops with Originary Arts.

Explore two new exhibitions Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle and RESOLVE Collective: them’s the breaks after hours at this Members' Late.

You'll have the chance to hear from the experts at curator talks and creatively engage with the exhibition themes at interactive creative workshops led by Originary Arts, a Brighton-based company founded by Nikki Shaill focusing on play and participation. Plus, you can hear a set from the DJ collective Sisu, enjoy drinks from our Garden Room bar and find the perfect memento from your night with an increased 20% discount in the Shop.

This event is open to Barbican Members and Members Plus and up to three guests. Guests will require their own ticket. The event will run 6-9pm; the exhibitions will open at 6:30pm.

Portraits & Placards with Originary Arts, Conservatory Terrace, 6-9pm

Create bold and colourful portraits of fellow Members, taking inspiration from the vivid style of Alice Neel and challenging yourself to observe and get to know the people posing through the act of drawing them. Members and your guests are invited to take turns to pose alone or in pairs for 10-15 minutes each in our pop-up portrait studio. Take your lead from Neel's ability to represent her sitters with characteristic warmth and empathy, making marks in a range of materials that help express and capture those who courageously pose. Sitters will also create their own placards to pose with, to express what matters to them. If you're interested in posing, email us at membership@barbican.org.uk by noon on Tues 21 Mar and we'll give you a special Barbican gift for taking part.

Concrete Poetry with Originary Arts, Conservatory Well, 6.9pm

Inspired by them’s the breaks, Originary Arts invite you to play with words. Remix words and phrases that have been dissected from a range of different institutions’ publications, policies and press releases. Create new patterns of poetry and prose that give these established documents fresh meaning and new contexts as they are broken down and remixed. Cut and stick words onto paper bricks to cumulatively build a wall of words together across the evening and see if any communal meanings or messages emerge between the cracks.

FULL EVENT INFO HERE

oin Originary Arts for a magical evening of theatrical life drawing and live singing by Assamiya, inspired by festive folklore at National Gallery’s Friday Late free Life Drawing. Room 32 at National Gallery, with 2 sessions 6.15 - 7 pm & 7.30 - 8.15 pm on Friday 16 December 2022.

Join Originary Arts for a magical evening of theatrical life drawing and live singing by Assamiya, inspired by festive folklore.

Come and sketch a model whose costume is inspired by imagery of pagan goddesses, winter witches, snow queens and deities of December. There'll be glittering gold to capture in your drawings, movement, stillness, plus moments of live singing from Assamiya.

Everyone is welcome to join us, no matter your drawing confidence, at these two inclusive workshops, to experiment with mark-making and sketching. Materials will be provided for those who need them, including drawing boards, paper and pencils.

Tate Modern Late celebrating Cezanne.

Expect DJ sets, artist-led workshops, short talks and film screenings alongside exhibitions. Plus enjoy special food and drink offers all evening.

Workshop: Portrait Play with Originary Arts

Location: East Tank, Blavatnik Building, Level 0
Time: 18.00–21.30 - drop in, free

Join Originary Arts to explore the art of portraiture. Put yourself in the frame and pose in our ‘portrait parlour’ and take part in playful portrait sketching games.

Alongside lots of other programme from Tate Modern Late - for all the info see the event here.

Sian Carousel's Pre-Surgery Sketching Salon // Wednesday 23rd November 2022 //7pm-8.30pm. Pay what you can/donations via cash tip jar on the eve. Hosted at Draw Brighton studio in New England House, Brighton. Model Sian Carousel has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Things are moving fast, with surgery and treatment approaching fast. Come along to capture and celebrate her current body, before it changes. Bring your paints, crayons, pencils, biros or favourite things to create with and on. Some basic materials will be provided. There will be short and longer poses, a cosy soundtrack and chances to share work afterwards over a cuppa. All welcome. Email originaryarts@gmail.com RSVP or with questions. Free to attend, pay what you can, donations welcome via the tip jar on the session.

@siancarouselmodel

We’re back at Wilderness festival! Originary Arts takeover the Art Studio for Friday for a day of creative play for all ages. Adults and families can come enjoy experimenting and making with a range of workshops from string printing to colourful collages, and life drawing workshops too! For full programme details and festival tickets see here.

Imagine if a still life came to life! We’re back for more after hours life drawing fun at National Gallery.

Originary Arts invites you to 'Tutti Frutti Drawing', a playful life drawing and colourful collage workshop in Room 30 by Juan de Zurbarán’s ‘Still Life with Lemons in a Wicker Basket’.

Taking inspiration from the Gallery's still lifes, Brighton's participatory arts company Originary Arts brings fun fruity themed theatrical life drawing scenes to inspire your artworks. Expect costumed characters, colour pop props and surreal size-shifting sets to get your creative juices flowing this summer accompanied by a zesty and bright playlist to create and make to.

Everyone is welcome to come and play with colour, drawing and collage.

This is a drop-in session and materials are limited but you are welcome to use your own sketchbook and pens or pencils. Materials will be provided for those who need them!

FREE but booking required, via National Gallery website HERE. This workshop is available on a first come, first served basis. Places are limited to 50 participants at one time.

Although you do not need to book this event, you will need to book your free Gallery entry ticket to gain admission to the National Gallery.

Please arrive in good time to access the building and find the event.

Originary Arts returns to the Garden Museum once again, this time for Up Late, part of British Flowers Week. Join us in creating a floral Time Capsule! We invite you to create submissions to go into a time capsule, buried at the Garden Museum, and to be opened in at least 200 years time.

Originary Arts invites you to write about and draw your favourite flowers, share flower memories, or descriptions and drawings of flowers you want to be remembered in the future. Imagining 200 years and beyond in the future, it’s an opportunity to help preserve the memory of current flowers for future generations and also capture a moment in time for future generations.

There’ll also be sound and music performances by Laura Misch, floral cocktails served in the garden, amazing floral installations in the museum by Frida Kim, Harriet Parry, Kate Wren, McQueen’s Flowers and Wagner Kreusch, and more to explore.

This Up Late at the Garden Museum for British Flowers Week is inspired by the intersection of art, technology and nature. Among the floral installations created by five of Britain's top florists, discover activities and performances with an optimistic take on the future of bringing more nature into our built environments.

Full programme info and tickets for £14 to take part in the Up Late event here: https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/up-late-british-flowers-week-2022/

What stories do scents tell? How can connecting creatively with our sense of smell allow us to remember? Originary Arts presents a mixed media exhibition in the window of Lush with artwork and stories. Reminiscents is a new project, supported by Third Thursdays, exploring the power of smell to help evoke and express memories.

Originary Arts invited participants of different ages from across Brighton and Hove’s community to create their own unique ‘smell maps’ of the city. Curator and artist Nikki Shaill has been collecting people’s scented memories through workshops in libraries. As part of the window display, artwork by students from Greater Brighton Metropolitan College alongside window art by Nikki Shaill. Plus audio memories and collected stories from local community members including The Network of International Women for Brighton and Hove.

Lush will also stay open late to allow you to come and sample the smells that inspired some of the artwork.

Originary Arts curate playful and participatory arts and creativity for curious people. Originary create multi-sensory arts events in collaboration with communities of all ages, shapes and sizes. From poetry to printmaking, paper cutting to puppetry, play to performances at festivals, museums, galleries and more.

Thanks to Lush for supporting Third Thursdays and being part of the programme.

More info here

Surrealist Sketching with Originary Arts at March’s Tate Late. Free to participate, join us at Tate Modern as part of the next Tate Late. Featuring model/artist/performer Angel Ito, Originary Arts invites you to play the Surrealist drawing game ‘Exquisite Corpse’ with friends old and new, plus create artworks inspired by our costumed life model and surrealist scenes throughout the evening.

Inspired by the exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders, drop in anytime to take part in collaborative drawing making and capture our uncanny and dreamlike scenes. Tate Late presents a line-up of film, workshops, conversation, food and a music programme curated by award winning musician Celeste. Activities on offer will include surrealist sketching by Originary Arts, and dream mapping workshops, as well as film screenings and talks exploring lucid dreaming, tarot and witchcraft. For the first time, Celeste will perform live from Tate Modern, with her soothing vocals taking over the vast space of the gallery’s Turbine Hall. The performance will be livestreamed from the artist’s YouTube channel. Over in the Starr cinema, Tate Collective members will have the chance to view an exclusive special screening of Celeste’s new music video alongside the Tate Collective Reframed video and will hear from the artist herself about how she took inspiration from Salvador Dali’s Metamorphosis of Narcissus.

For full programme information about this Tate Late, see here for information. All materials provided.

This summer for one day only, the Garden Museum will be transformed into a wonderland of circus, storytelling, and magic. Originary Arts will be part of the Festival of Fairytales! Tickets are £15 each here.

The Festival of Fairytales is a new event for children aged 4 – 10, set against the backdrop of the Garden Museum’s home of a medieval church. Be guided by the genie through a world of gnomes and butterflies, golden fish and magic, and make a wish on a tree.

Children will be free to explore the Museum and discover pop-up performers, craft workshops, storytelling, music and circus performances. Highlights include performances by contemporary Malawian folk band Nkomba, circus street performer Logy on Fire, and storyteller Lauren and the Storybox, and Originary Arts will be hosting a paper theatre, where children are invited to recreate the fairytale of the Golden Fish through collage.

The Garden Café will host a BBQ in the gardens and the Museum’s head gardener, Matt Collins, will be planting wishing tree seeds for kids to take home with them.

The optional dress code is Woodland Creatures! Tickets and more info here

ZOOM WORKSHOP / $10 tickets via here

5pm GMT / 12pm EST

We’re excited to be running another Brooklyn Art Library online workshop! After our winter solstice one was attended by 250 people from around the globe, we are back to mark the summer solstice this time. Nikki Shaill (aka @OriginaryArts) invites you to play with bold and bright splashes and scribbles of color this summer! Sharing inspiring images and sensory stimulus from the British seaside and her hometown Brighton, this workshop will provide a taste of the great British seaside. Looking to the vibrant sights, sounds, shapes and shades of the beach for ideas, bring along your most colorful marker pens/crayons/collage materials! Join Nikki for a virtual trip to the seaside and explore adding lots of color to your sketchbook as we celebrate the middle of summer.

Doodle and have fun at this playful and experimental drawing workshop.

Suggested materials:

- At least two or three different coloured marker pens / felt tip pens

- Crayons/pastels

- Colourful pencils

- Collage materials (optional), scissors and glue

- any different colourful drawing materials

- paper / sketchbook (at least 10 different pages/pieces)

Access to the workshop will automatically be sent via email after purchase.

TICKETS VIA BROOKLYN ART LIBRARY HERE - ONLINE ZOOM WORKSHOP

A special festive sketching celebration. Originary Arts x Art Macabre present an online Zoom life drawing workshop. Mark the night of Saturnalia exploring the traditional pagan roots of festive folklore, rites and rituals from around Europe. Sketch our model duo as they pose wearing symbols and costumes to summon up imagery of pagan goddesses, winter witches, snow queens and the darker deities of December.

Get into the festive spirit with sketching together to a specially curated atmospheric soundtrack. Bring your own gluhwein (mulled wine) or hot chocolate to keep you toasty whilst we summon up the winter spirits!

Use whatever you choose to create, inspired by the scenes on your screens, whether in pen/crayon/paint/collage or any material of your choice.

Zoom link information will be shared a week before the event with everyone. One ticket required per person attending, or purchase the 'Huddle' ticket to allow you to sketch together with two or more people in your household via one screen!

TICKETS AND FULL INFO HERE! Tickets from £7