Workshop
Experiential Sculpture Workshops with Shanti Bell
11:15–13:15 & 14:15–16:15
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Make small, personal sculptures in these workshops with artist Shanti Bell. Afterwards, we’ll head outside together to make larger-scale structures in the sculpture gardens.
We’ll be working with materials like balsa wood, flexible plywood and wood veneer sheets, as well as fabric and rope to create sculptural forms you can hang from trees. You’ll be guided through experimenting with materials, sculptural play and creating a site-specific sculpture together.
As part of this activity we’ll look at the negative space in many of Moore’s sculptures, and the views of nature that you can see through them, using this as an opportunity to pause and reflect on our making.
The workshops run in the morning, 11:15–13:15, and again in the afternoon, 14:15–16:15. Both workshops will have the same content.
This event celebrates our seasonal theme of Encounters and is part of a week of Material Encounters activities taking place this August.
“To encounter is to experience – something which occurs every day. We encounter objects, people and nature through our senses. Through our daily encounters, how do we respond, build and grow from them?”
Shanti Bell
Main image: Shanti Bell, ‘The Room that Shared’ at MAMA, 2024. Photo: Andre Jaques.
Practical information
Outdoor activity
This workshop includes time making outdoors, so please dress appropriately for the weather and wear suitable sturdy footwear.
Don’t forget to pack sun cream, sun hats and plenty of fluids if the weather is hot.
Ages 16+
This activity has been designed for adults aged 16+.
Group activity
Each workshop will have around 20 people in, with some collaborative working involved.
Tickets
Tickets to this event are free, but booking is required as places are limited. You must also have an annual ticket in order to attend.
- If you already have an annual ticket, just come along on the day and bring your annual ticket with you.
- If you don’t have an annual ticket, you can buy one online at the same time as your event ticket or from the ticket desk when you arrive.
An annual ticket lets you return to Studios & Gardens as often as you like, during open season, for 12 calendar months.
Subsidised tickets
We are able to offer five free tickets for this event, to anyone who wouldn’t otherwise be able to attend.
If you are able to pay for an annual ticket Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, please do not request a free ticket. Subsidised tickets include entry to the whole site for one day and cannot be exchanged for an annual ticket.
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About the artist
Shanti Bell
Shanti Bell is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. By making work that is interactive, immersive, and wearable, her practice seeks to explore the relationship and overlap between sculpture and the human form.
Through experiential sculpture, Bell invites audiences to connect, question, and reflect, and hopes to offer viewers an opportunity to discover a piece of themselves within sculptures that speak on our shared existence.
Shanti Bell completed an MA in Fashion at the Royal College of Art, where she was supported with a scholarship from both the RCA and the British Fashion Council. Prior to this, Bell attended Central Saint Martins, where she studied Fashion: Print. She had a solo show titled The Room that Shared with the curatorial platform MAMA in 2024, and was awarded a Black British Artist Grant by Samuel Ross in the same year. Most recently, she was a Talent25 recipient at Somerset House.
Encounters
16 April – 2 November 2025
This season at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, we’re celebrating the inspiring and transformative encounters between Henry Moore and the people, objects and ideas in his orbit.
We’ll be holding a series of talks, open archives and film screenings, as well as a daily programme of free creative activities for families.
Find out more about this season’s events
Getting here
We’re located just 27 miles north of London in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside.
Our 2025 visitor season runs from 16 April to 2 November. We’re open Wednesday to Sunday, 11:00–17:00.
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Perry Green
Hertfordshire
SG10 6EE
United Kingdom
T: 01279 843 333
E: visitorservices@henry-moore.org
