"Please handle with care" is an ongoing community artwork.

Participants of all ages and abilities are invited to create an individual life form of their choice from the clay provided. Maybe they will be inspired by something they have seen on their visit to the sanctuary or from something native to the Island's biosphere. The challenge is that the representations need to be self-supporting.

The facilitator, Emma, is there to help visitors with their creations. Afterwards these form part of a growing art installation being built over the weekend. Each individual work will be photographed and the artists acknowledged for their contribution in the online video.

Running from 9:30am to 1:00pm and 1:30pm to 5:00pm each day.

Part of the FOCAS festival at the Wildheart Sanctuary

BOOKING REQUIRED

£2.50 fee includes entrance to Sanctuary and other FOCAS festival activities.

Festival details https://wildheartanimalsanctuary.org/whats-on/2023/focas-festival-29th-30th-june-2024/

Book tickets https://tickets.wildheartanimalsanctuary.org/event-tickets/49512?

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Adumbration Arts is a small initiative ‘helping others to make art’. Creating spaces for artistic development and growth, they provide and manage affordable multi-disciplinary studio space for small creative businesses, makers and artists. They regularly run classes, courses and engagement opportunities for artists and the public and deliver tailored workshops for private organisations, the education and museum sectors. Based in Oxfordshire, they are now offering workshops on the Isle of Wight and plan to open a permanent workspace here in Summer 2025. Visit https://www.adumbrationarts.co.uk to find out more about them or to sign up to their mailing list.