Tuesday, May 6

Exploring Anthotypes with Joanna Hopkins - 6th, 13th & 20th May

Explore eco-friendly Anthotype photography using the sun and vegetables, focusing on art history and creativity over three weeks.

By Age & Opportunity

4.6k attendees hosted 📈

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Tuesday, May 6 · 10 - 11:30am UTC

Location

Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 5 days before event

About this event

Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

This workshop takes place over three dates: 6th, 13th & 20th May. 11am - 12.30pm

This workshop will explore Anthotype photographs - Eco friendly prints made from the sun and vegetables.

Participants will create unique artworks over three weeks. Exploring art history, conceptual ideas and creative sharing will be part of the course.

A list of easily sourced household materials will be sent out in advance.

Materials needed:

1 x Jar or pre-packaged packet of Beetroot. OR 1 x Bag of frozen blackberries, left to defrost in the bag.

Any type of watercolour paper, approx A4 size, multiple sheets.

Wide paintbrush

2 x Empty jars,

Fork

Sieve

Teatowel or coffee filter.

1-2 old photo frames, with glass, not plastic.

Fresh wild leaves or flowers, picked on the morning of workshop.

Card, scissors, pencils.

The prints need one full week of sun to expose between workshops.

Joanna Hopkins

Visual artist Joanna Hopkins works in video, drawing, photography and installation, often using place specific vegetation as inspiration. Her projects involving arts, health and older person-related contexts include the CREATE Project Realisation Award 2024, working with Beaufort Nursing Home in Navan; The Growing Gallery, a dementia inclusive installation for the Lexicon Gallery, Dun Laoghaire, 2022; and as Age & Opportunity’s inaugural Artist in Residence in a Healthcare Setting, at Orchard Day Centre, Blackrock, 2017. Recent commissions include invited artist for The Soil Project, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 2024. Solo exhibitions include Fruitier Bodies, Lexicon Gallery, 2024; Fruity Bodies, GOMA Waterford, 2023; Sympathetic Soup, Dublin City University, 2021. Public art commissions include An Urgent Enquiry: Artist in Residence for Fingal County Council, 2019. www.joannahopkins.com

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Age & Opportunity

4.6k attendees hosted

We are Age & Opportunity, the national organisation that provides a range of opportunities for older people who want to get more involved in arts and culture, sport and physical activity, civic engagement and personal development. Our aim is to enable the best quality of life for us all as we age, where we can be more active, more visible, more creative, more connected and more confident.

We work with local communities and organisations across the country to run a range of programmes and activities in three key areas:

• Age & Opportunity Arts provides opportunities for us to engage more in arts and cultural events and initiatives.

• Age & Opportunity Active is designed to get us more active and to participate more in recreational sport and physical activity.

• Age & Opportunity Engage offers a range of workshops and learning initiatives for our own resilience and personal development as well as opportunities for us to play an active role in our community.

€22.42