An interactive workshop/demonstration of traditional silhouette portrait techniques
These workshop installations allow participants to draw, reduce and cut out profile portraits, presided over by the enigmatic figure of 18th century physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater.
Silhouette production
Silhouette reduction
Appearances:
Mytholmroyd Arts Festival, West Yorkshire, October 2015
The Time Travellers’ Ironbridge Quest, Ironbridge Gorge Museums, August 2015 (with The House of Fairy Tales)
Birkbeck College Arts Week, May 2015
Bradford Festival, May 2015
Winterville, Victoria Park, Hackney, December 2014 (with The House of Fairy Tales)
Leeds Corn Exchange, July 2013 (part of A Grand Weekend)
Harewood House, Yorkshire, May 2013 (part of Museums at Night)
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden (with the Last Tuesday Society)
Barbican Arts Centre, London, October 2012 (part of After Dark Halloween Special)
Burlington Arcade, London (part of London Fashion Week, with the Last Tuesday Society)
Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, October 2011 (part of Light Night)
Worcester College Ball, July 2011 (with The Last Tuesday Society)
Wadham College Oxford, Quatercentenary Ball, June 2010 (with The Last Tuesday Society)
V&A Renaissance Masked Ball, London, January 2010 (with The Last Tuesday Society))
Tate Modern Long Weekend, London, May 2009 (with The House of Fairy Tales)
Latitude Festival, Suffolk, July 2008 (with The Last Tuesday Society)
Halloween Balls, London, 2009, 2008 & 2007 (with The Last Tuesday Society)
Valentine Ball, London, 2008 (with The Last Tuesday Society)