This workshop is part of the Garden Museum's new Branch Out programme, a series of free events and activities exploring gardening, art, floristry, plant science, history, design, and more!
Join artist Jo Pearl as she celebrates the wiggly worms, mycelium strands, bugs and bacteria living in healthy soil. This Branch Out session presents ‘Unearthed’ Jo’s whimsical short clay stop-frame animation and a few of her ceramic sculptures that shine a light on the hidden world beneath our feet.
Join Jo for a 2-hour drop-in clay workshop exploring soil’s amazing biodiversity. How big can you make a microbe? Where will you put the earthworm’s saddle? Can you make a moss piglet or fashion a wood louse? Getting playful with the awe-inspiring cast of earth-bound characters, you are joining the ranks of those who treasure this often over looked place. After all, clay is soil, and soil holds the key to life on earth.
All materials will be provided by the artist and no previous knowledge is necessary. Sign up from 1pm on the day. For all ages.
Our Branch Out programme has been made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England.
Session Leaders
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Jo Pearl
Jo Pearl
London-based artist Jo Pearl is in love with natural clay and everything it can do. When she sculpts she often keeps the clay wet and malleable and her shapes moving, photographically capturing each change to create a stop-frame animation. At the end of the shoot, she kiln-fires the work to transfix it ceramically – in suspended animation.
‘Unearthed’, her most recent work has a campaigning edge: It aims to get the public to fall in love with the awe-inspiring biodiversity in healthy soil. After all, it’s not just dirt, nor just the base material for ceramics – it holds the key to tackling climate change, flood prevention and tasty, sustainable food.
