Gerry made sculptures of people from history books, so he could live with Queens and villains. He said they used to talk to each other when nobody was around. In this workshop, you’ll become a living sculpture, and you can be whoever you want. Who isn’t in history books but should be? Who might be in a book about the future? You decide.

Sculpting and painting your character’s identity using card and giant paper bags to make a costume and mask, you’ll figure out how your character talks, moves and interacts with the other paper people.

Artists Emma Cousin and Louise Ashcroft, will guide you. Emma makes paintings and drawing, and Louise makes videos, performances and objects. They’re friends because their art often uses dark humour, character and improvisation to feel through problems. Emma is head of masks, and Louise is head of costume. Emma wants to help you turn your face inside out and Louise will teach you how to shapeshift.

Invoking the spirit of Gerry Dalton, in this workshop participants will work with established artist, Dom Watson to create a figurehead for a narrow boat that will ferry passengers down the Grand Union canal to Gerry's Pompeii.

Following the logic of the exquisite corpse, participants will use air dying clay, papier mache, paint and other materials to create an absurd figurehead that will embody the spirit of Gerry's Pompeii.

Dom Watson is a contemporary sculptor who makes comic and absurdist sculptural installation.