Waen

WAEN facilitates creative workshops for women who feel invisible in today’s gender health gap.

WAEN PRESENTS : THE ART OF SUMINAGASHI

Working in collaboration with Buoyant Press, the workshop introduced particpants to the mediative and ancient Japanese art of Suminagashi.
Suminagashi translates ‘ink floating’. With a guided practice from Karolina Slup of Buoyant Press, we learnt how to embrace painting on water where particpants created their unique pieces. Suminagashi is a fascinating medium to embrace within health and wellness as it is said that every emotion of the maker becomes registered in the pattern made.

All photos are credit to Ania Mokrzycka.

IMAGE MAKING AND ENQUIRY

Workshop, December 2023

Our first workshop took place in an intimate setting of the home with 7 participants. Using image perception exercises and memory prompting to create beautiful collages in response to the questions before us.

WAEN AT FESTIVAL OF COMMUNITY, STAFFORDSHIRE ST

Exhibition, Staffordshire Street Market
August 2023

WAEN took part in the exhibition gallery at Stafford St at the Project Market which was part of Southwark’s Festival of Community. What’s a project market? Imagine a carboot sale mixed with trade show mixed with village hall mixed with freshers fair. That’s a project market.
The project market was an opportunity to take WAEN into a physical space to discuss the intentions and upcoming events and ideas. It was a wonderful opportunity to be in a showcase alongside other local grassroot initatives in South East London.