Workshop
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Join us for a free public event with textile artist Ella Louise Jones.
In this second session you will be finishing your latch hook textile sculpture while developing your skills and knowledge Explore the sensory element of touch and the play that comes with tactile materials.
Please note you don’t have to attend the previous session to attend this one. You will still be able to learn how to latch hook and create a textiles sculpture.
This event is a part of the Isdyfiant project generously funded by Natural Resources Wales.
Please note there may be a photographer present at this event, you may give or refuse consent to be photographed on the day.
Artist profiles and statements
Ella Louise Jones
Ella creates installations, sculptures and costumes centred on kinaesthetic learning, learning through bodily movement, and creating tangible interactions between audience and artwork. Touch is a problem in galleries making the audience a pinball and avoiding being too close to the artwork. Through her practice, Ella wants to create multisensory spaces with textile and silicone sculptures designing more tactile opportunities.
Ella Jones is a Welsh artist currently based in Manchester and North Wales. She creates installations, sculptures, and costumes centred on kinaesthetic learning, learning through bodily movement, and creating tangible interactions between the audience and artwork. Recent projects include the Playwork commission at TY PAWB, Wrexham (2022), Tibro Yalp, g39, Cardiff (2022), and Welcome Collection’s Mitochondrial Research Artist in Residence (2020-2021).
Ella is interested in haptic, which is feeling what the eyes can’t see. It is to feel the weight of an object, its material, the texture of its unfamiliar surface, and its temperature. Touch is a problem in galleries making the audience a pinball and avoiding being too close to the artwork. Ella believes that with technological advances, our touch opportunities are growing. Still, it is to touch a screen or device. Through her practice, Ella wants to create multisensory spaces with textile and silicone sculptures designing more tactile opportunities.
For more information visit Ella Louise Jones’ website.
