Workshop: Flat Pack Forest with Abi Palmer

4 July 2026

11:00 - 13:00

Abi Palmer, The Flat-Packed Forest workshop documentation.
Abi Palmer, The Flat-Packed Forest workshop documentation.

The Flat-Packed Forest is a playful, collaborative workshop led by artist Abi Palmer, connected to themes in her project Abi Plamer Invents the Weather and the DIY nature of making celebrated in the exhibition, Sbel.

Who is this for: Participants of all ages and backgrounds are welcome. Young children must be accompanied by adults making with them.

Materials: You are invited to bring an object(s) from the outside world. If you have extra cardboard at home, please also bring that with you.

Participants are invited to build a miniature “forest” from found and everyday materials. Working individually or in small groups, simple objects will be transformed into sensory sculptures that suggest trees, pathways, habitats, and hidden corners. Through making and experimenting together, we’ll explore how textures, shapes, and arrangements can create the feeling of a forest indoors.

Once our individual pieces are built, we’ll share our creations and imagine ways to expand them using other sensory elements such as sound, lighting, or words. Together, the group will then decide how to connect the sculptures into a single, shared forest. Participants will also have time to photograph or film the forest they’ve created, documenting the work as it grows from individual pieces into a collective landscape. The collective sculpture will remain in the gallery as part of the exhibition until the close of the show, 11 July.

This workshop invites participants to think about how art can translate experiences of nature into multisensory environments, and how creative spaces can be designed to offer different kinds of experiences for different people. Through making, collaboration, discussion, and play, The Flat-Packed Forest explores accessibility, imagination, and the many ways we can share space together.

Abi is a disability-led practitioner and can adapt the workshop to meet a variety of access needs. Instructions will be provided on paper as well as verbally. These instructions can be provided in advance - (contact: post@g39.org). This event has no BSL interpretation. Should you wish to discuss additional access needs, please contact post@g39.org.

Tickets are free but booking is essential.

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    • Abi Palmer, The Flat-Packed Forest workshop documentation.

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