Join us for this experimental drawing with words workshop led by artist Anne-Marie Watson, part of our Associate Artist programme.

You will be invited to immerse yourself in the current exhibition To the Blue Soul by Ismini Samanidou weaving words that emerge into handwritten drawings on different surfaces, inspired by Anne-Marie's practice.

All materials will provided. Please contact Polly Wright with any access requirements.

Anne-Marie Watson is an artist, curator and community organiser specialising in creative arts and wellbeing. Her art includes intricate drawings formed of tiny handwriting and large text posters which describe personal memories, thoughts on interesting ideas and topics or the same word repeated to fill the page. She has shown work in numerous spaces and was artist in residence at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery in 2023.

She works with Women's Voice, a charity which supports and empower local women, trans and non-binary people in Hastings and St Leonards and is part of Hastings Rental Health Housing Cooperative who are creating long term affordable housing for people with no access to the housing market.

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Devonshire Collective’s Associate Artists strand is a year-long programme of training and support for six East Sussex-based artists and creatives who are interested in developing their practice through work with communities and young people.

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Image credit: Phoebe Wingrove