Entry
£12.50
Date
Sun 5 Jul 2026
Time
11.30am–1pm
Location
Clore Learning Studio
Turner Contemporary
Taking inspiration from the gallery's coastal location, this workshop invites you to explore touch, texture, and the natural world through chalk.
Tracing chalk’s journey from microscopic seaborne phytoplankton to towering cliff rock, Fiona will reveal the material’s rich history while exploring its transformative qualities through rubbing, crushing, smudging, and mixing it onto paper. Using hands, skin, and found objects as mark-making tools, you will be encouraged to experiment freely and connect with chalk in unexpected ways.
Working with simple materials including seawater, chalk, seaweed, and everyday objects, you will observe, play, and create through guided experimentation, leaving with your own unique drawings inspired by the coast.
About Fiona Fouhy
Fiona Fouhy’s practice covers broad themes of place, geology and history, celebrating the resilience of nature over millennia. Processes, materials and chance inform and evolve her practice. Her current body of work focuses on the Atlantic Temperate Rainforest. Fouhy predominantly uses monotype techniques, which are a hybrid of print, drawing and painting on paper. She has won multiple awards, was shortlisted for the 2025 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and was elected to membership by the Royal Society of Printers and Painters in 2023.
Her work is held in public collections, including the V&A Museum and the Central St Martins College Contemporary Collection. It is held in private collections throughout the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA. She is represented by Eames Fine Art, Glasshouse Contemporary and Rachel Bebb Contemporary. Fouhy studied at Central Saint Martins, London and the University of Manchester.
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