Collection: Art Club

Dive into a world of imagination and clay. In this ceramics workshop, you will explore fantasy-inspired forms— from dragons to mythology and fairy-tales. 

Join us at NAS to delve into the world of wheelthrowing. Led by Issy Parker, you will learn how to wedge, throw and turn clay forms on the wheel.

In this workshop you will explore ideas of hybridity, scale and narrative. In a fun and relaxed studio atmosphere, you will fuse together real and imagined elements to create your own monster compositions.

Curious about what drawing can be? Learn and explore new and experimental ways of approaching drawing through a range of materials, techniques, and ideas, including drawing with light, building drawing machines, drawing with the environment, embodied processes of drawing, wearable drawing garments and more!

Explore the imaginative world of surrealism in this creative painting workshop. Inspired by artists like Salvador Dalí and Frida Kahlo, you will learn how to express dreamlike ideas through unexpected imagery and symbolism.

Discover how light and shadow can transform your art. In this workshop, you’ll build small-scale diorama scenes and use them to explore chiaroscuro—a painting technique that plays with contrast to create depth and emotion. Learn how to balance highlights and shadows to add drama to your work, and see how lighting can turn a simple scene into a powerful story.

Through experimental drawing, photography and sound recordings, this workshop will explore the transformative power of stop-motion animation. Students will learn basic editing skills on Adobe Premiere Pro to cut together their own animated short film. 

Join us at NAS this summer to discover the fascinating world of aluminium etching. You will explore various traditional and contemporary techniques such as chine-colle and sugar-lift to produce your own unique edition of prints. 

Explore the art of sculpture through the creation of Chimeras — imaginative hybrid creatures composed of different animal parts. Using materials such as wire, cardboard, and more, you’ll experiment with 3D thinking, composition and construction techniques to design and bring your own mythical beings to life.