December, 2018, at the Broomhill Art Flat
As Christmas approached, we were wrapping up classes and preparing presents… The folks from the Plastic Melting and Weaving workshop were finalising their masterpiece to be hung in the community […]
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Textiles & Screen-Printing Workshop
In our Textiles & Screen-printing Workshop, artists Susan McInnes and Steph Davidson have been teaching participants various sewing and screen printing techniques to make decoartive covers for acoustic panels at the […]
Plastic Fantastic End of Second Quarter
It’s been a busy few months here at RIG working in Broomhill on our CCF (Climate Challenge Fund) project, ‘Plastic Fantastic’. We’ve got 2 our of our 4 in-house plastic […]
Creative Plastics Workshop
In this weeks Creative Plastics Workshop, artist and designer Amelia Rowe, showed the participants how to make pompoms out of recycled film from inside VHS tapes! Amelia took loads of […]
Melting & Weaving Workshop
Artist and designer Amelia Rowe, is leading classes in how to turn difficult-to-recycle materials into useful and decorative objects! The first in this 12 week series of workshops, on Thursday […]
Plastic Fantastic End of First Quarter
The first 3 months of Plastic Fantastic are now completed and what a lot of work has been created! All three classes worked exceptionally hard on their collaborative pieces, creating […]
Plastic Fantastic Begins!
The first few blocks of Plastic Fantastic are well underway and upcycled works are beginning to take shape. We’re currently working with three different primary school classes across St. Patrick’s […]
Notre Dame Continue with their Fashion Designs
The pupils at Notre Dame are continuing with their fashion designs based on their ‘Fantasy Frontier’ theme. They’ve finished shaping and cutting their pattern pieces and have begun cutting out […]
Wind Chimes Nearly Finished
The pupils at St. Pat’s have been hard at work nearly finishing their wind chimes yesterday and they’re looking genuinely fab! This is the first time we’ve tried making these […]
Making Recycled Wind Chimes
RIG arts are still working in two Broomhill Primary schools delivering workshops on creative reuse and recreating. This week, we used old bits of wood to make wind chimes for the […]
The Broomhill Project 