Saturday, April 5th, 2025
Love Letters to the Land - letter writing workshop
St Brelade's Parish Church La Marquanderie JE3 8EP Jersey
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Join Karl Murphy, a multi-disciplinary artist and Learning Officer at Saatchi Gallery, at this FREE letter writing workshop and embrace a romantic relationship with the land, seeing it not as a resource or commodity but as something alive and worthy of care and love. What might shift in our thinking if we wrote to our homeland as we would to a beloved? Craft a ‘love letter’ and offer a small act of poetic resistance, reawakening a sense of reverence for the world around you.
Please note that you can drop-in to St Brelade's Bay Church Hall at any point from 10am - allow yourselves one, two or the full three hours. Bear in mind that the workshop finishes at 1pm so last drop-in shouldn't be later than 12pm.
Book your FREE slot to give us an idea of how many people may be coming. FREE parking behind the Church Hall.
Letters will contribute to Karl’s ongoing project, ‘Love Letters to the Land’, which emerged from his work for the ‘
I Extend My Arms’
residency and exhibition, supported by Arthouse Jersey, Jersey Heritage and Arts Council England, and inspired by surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Jersey was central to Cahun and Moore’s creative process and is inseparable from their art, with Cahun often pressing their body into the rocks and beaches, merging with the landscape as one.
This drop-in workshop is open to all ages and abilities. An alternative approach using collaged text will also be available.