Ffotofestivities decoration workshop

Last year’s Ffotofestivities bunting workshop. Photo by Rowan Lear.

With Christmas fast approaching, why not forgo shop-bought baubles and bunting in favour of your own photographic creations made at the Ffotofestivities workshop?

The Ffotogallery team will show participants of all ages and abilities how to create unique Christmas trimmings such as 3D printed baubles and photobunting. The workshop takes place at the beautiful Turner House on Saturday 8 December from 11am – 4pm. What’s more, it costs nothing and includes a complementary mince pie and hot drink.

“We’re really excited to bring back Ffotofestivities again this year,” said Helen Warburton, the Exhibitions Officer at Ffotogallery. “We hope it will be a welcome antidote to the chaos of Christmas shopping and offer an alternative arts experience that will be good for the soul!”

Ffotogallery’s current exhibition is Jo Longhurst’s ‘Other Spaces’, which runs from 20 October 2012 until 26 January 2013.

Suspension (1), by Jo Longhurst

According to Ffotogallery, the new installation is “based on the ideals of the perfect performance and exploring the physical and emotional experiences of elite gymnasts in training and competition. Longhurst presents a study of physicality, liberation, pleasure, achievement, failure, exhaustion and despair through lens-based media and sculptural installations which reference Plato’s ‘Perfect Solids’ and Popova & Rodchenko’s revolutionary experiments with aesthetic forms for the construction of a new, utopian society.”

The exhibition will be accompanied by the launch of a new publication, Other Spaces, published jointly by Ffotogallery and Mostyn.

For more information, visit the Ffotogallery website or visit the exhibition at Turner House.