Family takeover: Building as Body with Amy Leung

Join artist Amy Leung for Building as Body, our free family sessions exploring connections between the body and our building. Family Takeover is a fortnightly session on Sunday afternoons and offer a fun, creative and relaxed space to explore playing and making with materials.

Drawing inspiration from our current exhibitions, Building as Body will take the form of a series of connected workshops inviting families to explore space through systems, functions and organs of the body.

Bones Sunday 13 March, 2-4.30pm The structure of a building becomes its skeleton. During this session we will build our own structures, using materials to create frameworks in which we can house ourselves inside.

The final session will culminate in a showcase of collaborative artworks generated through the Family Takeover: Building as Body.

You can also visit our Drawing Studio in-between Family Takeover sessions when the centre is open to contribute to our collaborative Building as Body drawing activity. This season our Drawing Studio is being re-imagined as a dedicated site for our community to use in-between scheduled workshop activity.

Amy Leung is a London based artist working across sculpture, drawing and workshops to explore the articulation and communication of joy. As an arts educator, she is interested in the intersections in which community, craft, objects and cultural identity meet. Material exploration and playing collaboratively are key to her practice, with ideas emerging through making together. Senses and bodies mingle with materials; delighting in the responsive nature of stuff and spaces.

Amy has previously worked with schools, families and communities on projects at Drawing Room, Firstsite, Towner Eastbourne, SLG and MK Gallery. She is currently studying for an MA Art and Design in Education at UCL.