Collage: Nature and the Environment

Sam Treadaway is running a collage workshop at Exeter Phoenix on Saturday 14 November, from 10.30am to 4pm in the Top Studio. The whole day is built around collage as a creative tool, with the theme of nature and the environment running through it. You'll be working with layering, typography, scale and juxtaposition, and the aim is to develop your composition and visual storytelling as you go. It's open to beginners and intermediates, and most materials are provided, so you don't need to turn up with a full kit.

Treadaway is a British artist living and working in the South West, and his practice is multimedia and interdisciplinary. He works with book-arts, and he describes his approach as drawing on the friction between aesthetic form and utilitarian function to transform found materials, objects and systems. That's a good summary of what collage is at its heart—taking things that already exist and rearranging them into something else—so it's a fitting way to frame a day spent cutting and pasting.

If you're coming along, there's a 10% discount on food and hot drinks at the Cafe Bar, which is handy for a proper break halfway through. The workshop runs from 10.30am to 4pm on Saturday 14 November at the Top Studio in Exeter Phoenix, and it costs £58.