PP Artists have been working in a series of workshops with Marcelo Sanchez-Camus of ALAS and the Whitechapel’s community programme. Working as a group, they have been reflecting on their first-hand experience of being a community of artists at our PP supported studio and translating into drawings and words what is it that makes it such a special, safe and creative space.

Experimenting with different paper foldout models, they designed for visitors to A Century of the Artist’s Studio exhibition a leaflet which opens into a miniature pop-up studio box and presents you with a blueprint to recreate a positive and creative studio experience. Words and symbols will prompt you to discovering what your own studio sanctuary might look like and white spaces will allow you to add to it your own special objects, people and thoughts.

On a Whitechapel Gallery Community Day we engaged with visitors in a workshop activity where we shared with them our prototype and invited them to have their take on blank templates of the foldout studio model to contribute their own ideas on what an artist’s studio is.

(Photo credits: PP and Diana Serban)