Family Workshop: Patterns and Prints with Ella Doran at YSP

Family Workshop: Patterns and Prints with Ella Doran

£40

27–28 Jul 2019 (two-day event) / 11.00–16.00

Hayloft

Join Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) for a unique weekend workshop led by award-winning designer Ella Doran. Design and create your own lino print, taking inspiration from Ella's exhibition Sheep to Seat, Fleece to Floor. Collect patterns through drawing and photography, share your creative ideas and receive one-to-one insight from Ella’s creative design expertise.

This is a great opportunity to achieve your Arts Award Explore while making art together.

Further details

– Tickets are non-refundable

– Suitable for ages 8+

– Free parking included

– Limited capacity for wheelchair users. Please check before booking.

– Please bring your own camera (smartphone cameras are suitable)

to make a booking visit YSP’s website here

Design Ventura

Design Ventura is the Design Museum’s flagship design and enterprise competition for secondary school students in years 9, 10 and 11. Over 13,000 students from 265 across the UK and beyond are registered to take part in 2018, the ninth year of the competition.

The young people are challenged to work in teams design a new product for the Design Museum Shop, responding to a detailed brief. The winning team will work with creative professionals to develop and manufacture their idea and will see it on sale in the Design Museum Shop, with all profits donated to a charity of their choice.

Ella has been invited to help choose the top ten Student teams for Design Ventura this year. The shortlisting involves choosing the top ten ideas from submitted entries and these teams will then be invited to pitch their ideas to a panel of expert judges at the Design Museum in December.

The project is supported by industry experts from the creative industries and business and offers students the chance to develop creative, design thinking, enterprise and transferrable employability skills.

Here’s this year’s brief for the Students given by the lovely Donna Wilson.

Visit the Ventura website

Email ventura@designmuseum.org

from sheep to seat, fleece to floor at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

From Sheep to Seat, Fleece to Floor follows the journey of sheep wool, from shearing to scouring, design to spinning, to create an exhibition of beautiful bespoke furniture, furnishings and photographic prints, all of which are available to buy. An homage to local products, suppliers and processes, the exhibition highlights the importance of the circular economy in reducing waste and sustaining livelihoods and traditions.

Following a residency at the Park in 2016, which culminated in new product ranges for YSP Shop, Doran worked with the Park’s neighbouring farmer to amass wool from the sheep that reside in the Country Park. After scouring by Haworth Scouring, the wool was transformed by British manufacturers, Camira and Alternative Flooring, and features Doran’s Waterlake design, a distinctive and colourful pattern which mirrors the movement of the lakes and plant life at YSP. The exhibition is accompanied by a short film by Paul Wyatt.

Both British Wool and Campaign for Wool are our project sponsors, along side Camira Fabrics and Alternative Flooring, follow Ella’s journey on instagram @elladorandesigner, as she develops the work, and visit this website for updates and information for the exhibition opening 15th June 2019.

You can watch a short trailer here!