Location: People’s Pavilion
Free, drop-in event.

Join us for some creative family fun with Mornings at the Museum, on Tuesday and Thursday mornings!

Children and grown-ups can enjoy this art workshop located in our front lawn Pavilion. Taking inspiration from IMMA’s Collection and current exhibitions, children and grown-ups will explore different ways of making art and use their imagination to create their artworks. Led by our Visitor Engagement Team this is a wonderful family experience. Art materials are provided by IMMA

Location: The People’s Pavilion
Free, drop-In event but places are allocated on a first come first served basis

Have some creative family time with our Explorer family art workshops. Children and grown-ups can explore selected artworks in the museum and make artworks together. This is an ideal opportunity to experience the historic building and expansive grounds of the museum. Art materials are provided by IMMA.

Sessions are led by our Visitor Engagement team, along with special artist-led workshops throughout August.

Explorer is free and drop-in but places are allocated on a first come first served basis and according to the space available on the day.

Location: Studios 9 and 10
Free, booking required. Book here

There’s a deep, dark corner at the back of every wardrobe, a place only abandoned clothes call home. These are garments which are dusty, broken or boring. They could be never-worn-before, still with their tags, victims of change of mind or body. Now it is an opportunity to tackle that corner…

You could transform them into something you will want to wear. Garment upcycling requires a little time and a little faith. Embellishments can be added to upgrade plain items to festival worthy outfits. Scissors are your best friend if you want cut-out details or to insert a shear fabric for tattoo window.

The beauty of remaking clothes is that half the work is often as simple as taking a fresh perspective as to what might constitute a raw material. Upcycling can open a world of possibilities, design business opportunities and waste solutions for society. For the modern dressmaker, a pair of scissors and a knack for unpicking, boiling, folding, knotting, and generally rearranging are all just as useful as the sewing machine.

Participants should bring along a sewing machine to learn how to use it properly and troubleshoot any difficulties you have with your machine.

Basic materials sewing materials will be provided but do bring any sewing materials you may want to use, such as sewing machines, scissors tools, threads, scrap fabric, trims, beads etc.

Participants are asked to bring clothes they would like to repair or enhance. Old sheets, duvet covers, T-shirts and jeans are also useful forms of material.

If you have mobility problems, please let us know in advance of the workshop.  please email [email protected] or [email protected]

This workshop has been postponed – keep your eyes peeled. We look forward to bringing it to you soon!

Location: People’s Pavilion
Free, drop-in.

Hold Your Eyes in Your Hands is a performative film workshop, whereby film director Julie Weber combines theory with embodied knowledge for a playful and engaging series of collaborative experiments.

This workshop will allow for short active exercises examining pre-production methods and film techniques including expanded storyboarding, composing shots, cardboard Steadicam making and finally, filming as a performance. This workshop will examine located practice and an individual response to the environment. It will include a tour of the site with moments of collective performance through filming, investigation of space, archiving and communication. At the end of the workshop, you will have a set of exercises to move forward with for making new moving image work.

This workshop is linked to the online release of Julie Weber’s new short film, titled The Supremacy of Mathematical Dreaming, commissioned by IMMA as part of IMMA Nights 2022–2023.

Location: Studios 9/10
Free, drop-in.

This week’s Explorer Family Art workshop is led by artist Hannah-Clare de Gordun as she shows us how to make creative and colourful mobiles!

Have some creative family time with our Explorer family art workshops. Children and grown-ups can explore selected artworks in the museum and make artworks together. Art materials are provided by IMMA.

Explorer is free and drop-in but places are allocated on a first come first served basis and according to the space available on the day.

Location: Studios 9 and 10
Free, booking required. Book here

This workshop is designed for beginners who would like to grasp a well-rounded understanding of painting with oils, with artist Domnick Sorace.

Acting as one continuous workshop divided between three days, you will learn about the qualities of the medium itself, the basic rules of application, the purpose of an underpainting, and colour matching techniques to ultimately achieve a near finished painting. As the workshop primarily focuses on oil painting, prior knowledge of drawing would be required.

The workshop is not theme restricted, you are welcome to bring any printed image with you that you would like to paint or email the image to [email protected] and it will be printed for you prior to the workshop.

All materials, tools and plastic aprons will be provided. Please be aware that low-odour turpentine will be used requiring appropriate clothing (ideally that covers legs and arms), or alternatively a long cloth apron.

Location: Studios 9 and 10
Free, booking required. Book here

Using wool to challenge our perspective of body autonomy. Sculpt your own pancreas, neurons, heart, eggs, viruses or udders. Starting from fragile fibres create sculptures that render your relationship with your body through colour and form, finish the sculpture with kits of medical devices.

If you have any mobility problems, please let us know in advance of the workshop, please email [email protected] or [email protected]