Imagined Worlds: Libraries as Spaceships Drawing and Collage Workshop

Join artist Ruth Beale as they share the secrets of turning libraries into spaceships. Using drawing and collage, the workshop will be a chance to create your own library spaceship inspired by the art of sci-fi illustration.

Ruth Beale’s artistic practice troubles the structures and systems that shape society, from institutions to economics, social ties to the public realm. Their work responds to contexts and communities, ultimately to change what kinds of knowledges are valued, who has the power, and who gets to imagine the future. They have worked with public institutions, galleries, local authorities and agencies on collaborative commissions, projects and residencies, including TACO!, Create London, Gasworks, Mansions of the Future, Brent Borough of Culture, Whitstable Biennale, UP Projects, Wysing Arts Centre and BFI.

This event is part of the Imagined Worlds series, a month-long celebration of fantasy and sci-fi exploring world-building and utopian and dystopian futures supported with public funding from Arts Council England via the National Lottery Heritage Fund.