Miniature Market Workshops

Miniature Market opens at Scarborough Market Hall on Thursday 12 November, and it's the result of a community project that's been building up for weeks. If you've walked through the hall recently, you've probably seen the festoon lights strung across the Mezzanine; when the exhibition opens, those lights will be holding up a whole street of handmade, three-dimensional miniature shops and buildings, each one glowing from within.

The whole thing comes from a series of creative drop-in workshops held on the Mezzanine over the last few weeks. The sessions ran on 20, 23, and 30 October, and on 3 and 6 November, each one starting at 10:00 AM and running for 210 minutes. People came along to build their own illustrative-style shops and buildings on a small scale, using repurposed and craft materials. Every single one was wired to battery-operated festoon lights, so they light up from the inside.

Once the workshops finished, the miniatures were hung from the lights on the main level of the Market Hall. The effect is that they sit inside the life-size market that surrounds them, so you're looking at a tiny, glowing version of the very place you're standing in. It's a community-built installation, so the shops are as varied as the people who made them.

If you've been following the workshops, you'll know the work is already up and waiting. The exhibition opens on 12 November at Scarborough Market Hall, with the miniatures displayed on the main level.