Woodworking Saturdays
About the event
Unfortunately the workshop scheduled on Saturday 26th September has been cancelled due to planned industrial action. In this workshop, you will learn practical making, building, and carpentry skills, and collaborate with other creatives to learn how to build different objects, from lampshades to picture frames, and book shelves to seating. Workshops take place monthly on Saturdays, each time creating different objects from wood. See themes below. The work created will be showcased in a final event on 28 November. Please book onto as many workshops as you would like to attend. Workshops are free, so please only book if know you can attend. For ages 18-26. Workshops designed by Adobe Creative Resident 2026 Shanti Bell and artist Sebastian Chaumeton. Saturday, 25 April 2026 Stools 10.30 – 13.00 Saturday, 30 May 2026 Shelves 10.30 – 13.00 Saturday, 27 June 2026 Lampshades and Light Sculptures 10.30 – 13.00 Saturday, 22 August 2026 Picture Frames 10.30 – 13.00 This workshop has been cancelled due to planned industrial action. Saturday, 26 September 2026 Seat Pad weaving 10.30 – 13.00 Saturday, 31 October 2026 Chairs 10.30 – 13.00 Saturday, 28 November 2026 Collaborative Making and Display of work 10.30 – 13.00 If you cannot make the morning workshop, join us for drop-in afternoon workshops (you do not have to book) - Offcut Afternoons. Fully Booked? Sign up to join the waiting list and we will let you know if a spot becomes available: Woodworking Saturdays Waiting List – Fill in form About the Artist: Sebastian Chaumeton is a multidisciplinary artist with an autodidactic approach to applying the best material for any given artwork be it up-cycling found materials into sculptures, delftware ceramics or mixed medium paintings. Whatever process used he's grounded in an enjoyment of craft, play, humour and the handmade. Sebastian graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2019 and has since exhibited internationally and nationally from London to Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei and Hong Kong. Chaumeton's work speaks towards ideas around internet culture, memes and its relation to art history as a means to question arts purpose in a growing digital landscape. Contrastingly he also paints the theatre of the everyday in memories and the mundane as an antithesis to the aforementioned subject matter. Through visual delight & details he aims to slow down the viewing process to counteract the immediacy of online imagery for himself as well as the viewer. Truly seeing and observing reality is a dying art which he believes can be revitalised through the art of making.
