Collecting/Choreography with Eva Louisa Jonas

Join us to think about the choreography of objects, collecting forms, shapes and movements as we go.

As part of our summer series celebrating the theme of Vitality: The Human Landscapes of Henry Moore, Eva Louisa Jonas will be holding Collecting/Choreography workshops for families with children age 5+. For all of our family activities, we encourage intergenerational learning.

Beginning with a walk to nearby sculptures, Eva will guide you through a list of terms that relate to the body and lines within the landscape. You’ll be encouraged to stretch, bend and extend like the interlinking points of Locking Piece and angles of Three-Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae.

Moving across the site to Large Figure in a Shelter, we’ll trace the points that show how the sculpture has been assembled, drawing lines around fragments of the artwork and retracing its shape onto leaves.

Returning to the workshop space we’ll gather the collected responses – images of gestures echoing the sculptures, fragment drawings, leaf cut outs, to inspire a Moore-like sculpture using wood blocks and shapes. Painting and stamping the shapes we’ll create a record of the workshop to take away, a final trace of our own movements and fragmented forms.

Getting here

We’re located just 27 miles north of London in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside.

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