Join Holly and Stefi from our Visitor Experience and Engagement team for a creative workshop exploring dreams through discussion and cyanotype printing.
The workshop will begin with a short introduction to psychiatrist Carl Jung and his ideas about dream archetypes: recurring characters, images and themes that he believed were common to many people’s dreams. We’ll also explore how and why we dream. You’ll be welcome to share your own experiences of dreaming, but you do not have to take part in the discussion.
You’ll then create your own dreamscape using cyanotype printing, a cameraless photographic process used to produce blue-and-white images. You’ll arrange acetate images from our collection on specially coated paper before exposing your composition to ultraviolet light and washing it with water.
At the end of the workshop, there will be an opportunity to share what you have made with the group.
All materials will be provided.