Mohini Chandra and Martina Rooney, Ghost Ships (detail), Imaginary Edens/Photos of my Father (detail), Untitled (detail)

Short course

Photo collage weekend: experimenting with alternative photographic processes

6 April 2024 10.30am - 5.30pm7 April 2024 10.30am - 5.30pm

Clore Learning Centre | Burlington Gardens

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£480. Includes light refreshments and a wine reception at the end of day one.

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Entangled Pasts, 1768–now

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Bring traces of the past into the present and go beyond the surface of the image in this photographic practices course.

Spend a weekend experimenting with collage, mixed media, cyanotypes, chemigrams and lumen printing. We will explore how to use photography, collage and other media to tell stories through art, and we will delve into the history of these processes.

Using images or objects from your own personal collections and a variety of supplied materials, you will create a series of hands-on experimental and mixed media images. (No original images will be harmed in this process!)

This workshop is inspired by our exhibition Entangled Pasts, 1768–now, particularly the themes of contemporary arts practice, which often seeks to interrogate the past. Many of the works in the exhibition use a range of highly experimental and mixed media formats, resulting in work which alludes to the complexity of both personal and collective narratives.

This workshop explores the possibilities of photography as a hands-on experimental form, using adaptation and camera-less methods to ‘disrupt the surface’ of the image and come up with new and sometimes surprising results. Be prepared for two days of exciting messy exploration into multi-layered storytelling through art.

Mohini Chandra is an artist whose work is featured in Entangled Pasts: 1768–now. Her multimedia work on the international flows of people and culture in our globalised world has been exhibited in venues across the world. She is Senior Lecturer on the BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art (UAL) in London.

Chandra identifies as part of the Fiji Indian diaspora, whose ancestors were taken from India to work as indentured labourers in the Pacific from the late 1800’s. Much of her work explores both archival and vernacular representations of this experience through photography and other forms of narrative storytelling.

Martina Rooney is a photographic artist whose work explores notions of identity within cultural origins and family history. Working with digital collage, found photography, the archive, and DNA records, she seeks to unearth long-hidden familial narratives.

Martina has been a lecturer in Photography at Arts University Plymouth for almost twenty years, where she regularly runs workshops in experimental and historic photographic practices.

Minimum age 18. If you have any accessibility needs, please contact public.programmes@royalacademy.org.uk.

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