with Sara Trillo
In this eight-week course, you will explore using plaster, fabric, clay and found and foraged objects and materials to build sculptures. Whether a beginner or developing your practice, you will explore sculpture techniques and learn how to use the local environment to develop your sculpture making through a mixture of taught exercises, tailored feedback and independent practice. You will develop a personal project culminating in a private showcase of work in the Mast gallery.
This course is for anyone interested in beginning or developing their sculpture practice. By working with easily (and often freely) available materials such as found clay and dyes made from plants, this course could help you engage in new ways with the area you live in, and see the possibilities for creating objects and sculptures alongside the world around you.
Students will develop skills in building using clay, plaster, fabrics and found materials, in casting, in creating dyes and inks, and experience in taking readily available materials and using them to create a sculpture project. There will also be opportunities to learn more about the historical, archeological and natural environment in Thanet and beyond.
who is it for?
This course is for anyone with an interest in sculpture, either beginners or those wanting to develop their practice. This course would suit students interested in environmentally engaged practices, but it is open to anyone who wants to learn new skills and put them to use in an individual project.
what should I bring?
All materials will be provided. Over the course, students will be encouraged to bring additional materials they may want to use in their final projects.
when is it?
This course takes place across six Saturday mornings (10.30am to 1.30pm), and includes a ‘reading week’. Please see the course dates below:
24 October, 31 October and 7 November; 21 November, 28 November and 5 December
where is it?
This course takes place in our Fab Lab. This is on the first floor of the building, and is only accessible by one flight of stairs.
Sara Trillo studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, and is an Associate of Open School East. Recent commissions include “Urn Field” for “How Lies the Land?” Folkestone Triennial 2025 : Ac-Efer for “Gathering the Commons”, West Norwood Cemetery, 2025; Mouldiwarp for “Ground Up”, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn, 2024; “Alleycumfee”, Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2024; and “Holes in the Landscape” for "Chaleur Humane”, the 2023 Dunkerque Triennale Art et Industrie. Sara has taught at HE institutions including RCA, University of Kent, and U.C.A.
Examples of her work can be seen at www.saratrillo.co.uk and instagram:saratrillo
Recent commissioned performative walks include “Walking the Deer Line” for Open School East 2025; “Swept Away” for Cement Fields/Whitstable Biennale, 2024; “Holloways and Hideaways” for Od Festival, Somerset, 2023; and “Sel-sable-craie” for Dunkerque Triennale, 2023.
with Sara Trillo
In this eight-week course, you will explore using plaster, fabric, clay and found and foraged objects and materials to build sculptures. Whether a beginner or developing your practice, you will explore sculpture techniques and learn how to use the local environment to develop your sculpture making through a mixture of taught exercises, tailored feedback and independent practice. You will develop a personal project culminating in a private showcase of work in the Mast gallery.
This course is for anyone interested in beginning or developing their sculpture practice. By working with easily (and often freely) available materials such as found clay and dyes made from plants, this course could help you engage in new ways with the area you live in, and see the possibilities for creating objects and sculptures alongside the world around you.
Students will develop skills in building using clay, plaster, fabrics and found materials, in casting, in creating dyes and inks, and experience in taking readily available materials and using them to create a sculpture project. There will also be opportunities to learn more about the historical, archeological and natural environment in Thanet and beyond.
who is it for?
This course is for anyone with an interest in sculpture, either beginners or those wanting to develop their practice. This course would suit students interested in environmentally engaged practices, but it is open to anyone who wants to learn new skills and put them to use in an individual project.
what should I bring?
All materials will be provided. Over the course, students will be encouraged to bring additional materials they may want to use in their final projects.
when is it?
This course takes place across six Saturday mornings (10.30am to 1.30pm), and includes a ‘reading week’. Please see the course dates below:
24 October, 31 October and 7 November; 21 November, 28 November and 5 December
where is it?
This course takes place in our Fab Lab. This is on the first floor of the building, and is only accessible by one flight of stairs.
Sara Trillo studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, and is an Associate of Open School East. Recent commissions include “Urn Field” for “How Lies the Land?” Folkestone Triennial 2025 : Ac-Efer for “Gathering the Commons”, West Norwood Cemetery, 2025; Mouldiwarp for “Ground Up”, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn, 2024; “Alleycumfee”, Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2024; and “Holes in the Landscape” for "Chaleur Humane”, the 2023 Dunkerque Triennale Art et Industrie. Sara has taught at HE institutions including RCA, University of Kent, and U.C.A.
Examples of her work can be seen at www.saratrillo.co.uk and instagram:saratrillo
Recent commissioned performative walks include “Walking the Deer Line” for Open School East 2025; “Swept Away” for Cement Fields/Whitstable Biennale, 2024; “Holloways and Hideaways” for Od Festival, Somerset, 2023; and “Sel-sable-craie” for Dunkerque Triennale, 2023.
