Family frames: stop motion animation workshop

Taking inspiration from Djofray Makumbu’s exhibition, Snap!, we will work together in groups to create our own stop motion animations. Through drawing, cut out and collage, we will set the scene of our own family lives and animate them with the people, objects and occurrences that make our individual families unique. By placing our cut outs on different backgrounds, layering scenes and actions, we will use the stop motion app on our smart phones to record a short animation, that documents a ‘snap’ in the life of your family. People are invited to reimagine what a family is and could be, looking to the past and thinking to the future. Recording your own narrative or musical score to accompany the animation will be encouraged.

All materials provided. You will need to download the free stop motion app on your smart phone before attending the workshop so you can record your animation. If you do not have a smartphone, a tablet will be available.

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Nicole Morris is an artist working across gallery, education and community settings both in a solo and collaborative context. Her work uses textiles and film to explore themes of architecture and the body through concepts of construction, destruction and repair. Recent exhibitions and projects include, Making Room, SLAM and Drawing Room Artist Project (2024-26); Lost Mothers (solo exhibition), Asociación Alcultura, Algeciras, Spain, (2024); Resist, Coborn Centre Adolescent Mental Health Project (2024); Feeling Blue, with Stuti Bansal, Her Centre, Solace and National Maritime Museum (2024); Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2024 & 2021); Discoveries V (group exhibition), Fiumano Clase, London (2024); Filling Gaps, Mind in Camden and Foundling Museum (2024); Dear World, Wellcome Centre for Neuroimaging commission, UCL, London, UK (2020); Making in Isolation, together, SPACE commissions, London, UK (2020). Survey, G39, Cardiff; Bluecoat, Liverpool; Baltic, Gateshead and Jerwood, London, UK (2018-19).