Bridget Harvey

Workshops and Facilitation

I am an experienced workshop facilitator and have run public and private workshops around making/repairing and thinking through making, as well as working as a university tutor for many years.

The workshops detailed below are examples of what I offer, others can be developed to suit your needs, and can also be co-facilitated for larger group of participants.

I also offer consultancy on creative projects; one to one/group tutorials for makers to discuss their practices; group workshops/seminars.

My expertise lies in making and material practices, repair, sustainability, craft concepts and ideas. I also run workshops on unpicking and communicating practice, methodologies, writing, and embedding research into practice.

Please email for price and more details, or to discuss a workshop idea: bridget@bridgetharvey.co.uk

workshop run for V&A

unpicking objects workshop run for Cultures of Resilience at UAL

Creative Practices

Creative Ceramic Repair
Experiment with a couple of ways to repair and rework broken ceramics, thinking through aesthetics, meanings and technique.

Wrapping
Using my long-standing interest in how objects can be joined together, we will wrap small found and reclaimed objects with cloth, stitch, and yarn, to create or inspire memory-imbued objects.

Getting Making: Objects and materials
This is a challenge based workshop designed to aid explorations of form and matter. Ideally run over a series of afternoons, although it can be done in one session.

Material Mathematics: Making methods
Involving several different ways of hand-working a variety of unusual materials, participants will create a collection of small objects and explore different lo-tech making methods.

Mark Making
Experimental and abstract drawing exercises to develop understand of objects in 2d and 3d.

Textile Mending
An introduction to mending textiles through darning and patching.

wrapping workshop run for Toast

creative ceramic repair workshop run for Toast at Somerset House

Study Skills

Method(ology): Narratives of practice
What is a methodology, how we can understand, use and communicate our own.

Getting Going: Mapping, exploring and orienteering
Ways of starting projects, mapping and recording, drawing information from initial ideas.

Looking back: Reflective Practice
Uses of reflective practice and how to do it.