The next workshop as part of the Drug of Art x Michael Aldrich Foundation collaboration encouraged pupils from St Gregory's Catholic School in Tunbridge Wells to explore expression through abstraction. Led by artist Becky Hancock, the students aged 14 to 17 created charcoal, abstract and expressive drawings, exploring line, shape, adding, taking away and layering.
The Drug of Art project features a series of Masterclasses to encourage young people to be creative and develop new skills and techniques. MAF artist, Jack Durling has filmed a brilliant Masterclass explaining how to make a paper sculpture of one of his iconic penguins, using newspaper and masking tape. Check it out HERE
It is important to us that the work of the Michael Aldrich Foundation reflects our charity's values and ethos. The Michael Aldrich Foundation is closely aligned with its constitutional partner, the University of Brighton. Its board is made up of a combination of trustees from the University and independent trustees. As such, our values seek
Abstract art was the topic for Year 5 children from Bourne Primary School in Eastbourne at the recent Drug of Art x Michael Aldrich Foundation workshops. Experienced art facilitator and artist, Gina Leonard worked with 65 children to produce their own unique works of abstract art. As part of the process, the children learned how
The next workshops as part of the Drug of Art x Michael Aldrich Foundation collaboration focussed on surrealism, and more particularly, the work of Joan Miró. The brilliant Seb Dewing of Artroom Brighton, who led the workshop for Year 5 pupils of St Martin's Primary, Brighton explains the process : Pupils were told about surrealism
Michael Aldrich and the Mrs Snowball story featured recently on BBC 2's The Secret Genius of Modern Life - Series 1: 2. Food Delivery App (at 9.27 mins). Good to see a credit to the (Michael) Aldrich Archive which designer, Peter Barr worked on with me over lockdown. You can watch the episode HERE
I have been very fortunate over the years to meet and work with the talented students from the University of Brighton’s excellent 3D Design & Craft and product design degrees. The first ever winner of the Designing for the Future competition in 2010 was Harry Trimble. Then a second year student, Harry was immediately impressive
For the past 18 months, I have been working with Designing for the Future, alumnus, Pete Barr, on refreshing the website for the Michael Aldrich Archive.My father, Michael Aldrich (for whom the Michael Aldrich Foundation is named) was a pioneer of online shopping in the 1980s before the internet was born.He worked in the Information Technology
After what has been a most extraordinary 12 months, Christmas is almost upon us and we wanted to share with you some of our top picks for unique and beautiful gifts from the Michael Aldrich Foundation network of artists and makers. Eleanor Owens was pivotal to our recent Image of the Week project and
Following the success of our Image of the Week project over lockdown, we are excited to share this fabulous video made by Marcelo Staricoff, founder of JONK and MAF trustee for the International Festival of Learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtmkhkkbtbE The Image of the Week also features in Marcelo's new book, The Joy of Not Knowing, which is
