FREE
Friday 13 March, 10am-12pm

Portraits of Escape: Women Surrealists and the Art of Collage 

This workshop introduces participants to female Surrealists - Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, Claude Cahun - and to Hannah Höch’s influential photomontage. Together, we will consider how Surrealism and collage have acted as survival strategies, enabling artists to imagine freedom when constrained by circumstance, gender roles, political oppression, or, in this context, incarceration.  

Participants will spend time with the museum’s 30 Objects Representing Justice portraits as a point of departure for thinking about identity and representation. Drawing on the atmosphere of the National Justice Museum's historic spaces, we will create surreal or speculative collage portraits exploring escape, longing, dream worlds, and symbolic transformation

About Our Make It Yours Sessions

You’re invited to drop into our Creative Courtyard and make something inspired by the museum collection.

Our creative sessions are free and open to all. Join us to make and create together and contribute to our growing museum! The sessions will be led by artists, makers, and writers, all influenced by this unique museum. Register using the link below.