Beyond Words: Mindful mark-making with Chloe McHugh
A reflective, multi-sensory experience, this workshop invites participants to explore creativity and self-expression using mark-making through sound.
Beginning with a guided tour of the exhibition, Tracing Echoes by Mark Francis, participants are encouraging to consider how sound and music can be visualised. A restorative sound bath follows with Chloe McHugh, engaging you in immersive deep listening techniques. The ethereal sounds of gongs, singing bowls and elemental instruments may evoke physical, emotional and mental responses.
Transitioning into an intuitive drawing practice, explore mark-making to express the experience of sound, beyond words. Guided gently throughout by Chloe, the workshop emphasises exploration over outcome, offering a space for relaxation, contemplation, and embodied creative expression.
Participant information:
Audience: Adults, booking essential - max x15 people
No artistic experience necessary, just a willingness to explore sound and self-expression.
Sound is only recommended from the 2nd trimester onwards and is unfortunately not suitable for people with a pacemaker or epilepsy (and similar conditions).
Please bring a yoga mat and blanket, as much of this workshop will take place on the floor.
Please get in touch before booking if you require mobility assistance.
Chloe McHugh (Sonas Sounds) is a sound artist, wellbeing practitioner and participatory arts facilitator. Creating immersive and participatory experiences, designed to support participant engagement, wellbeing and creative expression, her work bridges sound, creativity and embodied presence, routed in the concept of whole body listening. She has a boundless curiosity about sensory perception, the relationship between sound, space/time and emotion, and the impact these elements have on how we think, how we create, and how we relate to each other.
For more than a decade Chloe has been exploring the art of sound and its uses across cultures. Her work is informed by a breadth of study and training across the arts and wellbeing, and include an M. Phil. in Music and Media, a Diploma in Mindfulness-based approaches, a Certificate in Sound Massage therapies and a BA in Audio Visual Media.
Image Credit: Steven O'Connor