Free Art School E20

About Free Art School E20

Free Art School comes from our desire to create an inspiring and inclusive exhibition with accompanying events for local residents at a time when more people than ever are put off accessing creative arts in school or higher education due to prohibitive costs and uncertain career prospects. Creating a space for meeting between creative people from all walks of life. Workshops by exhibiting artists will contribute to an experimental, free “art school” environment for people of any age or outlook.

Connecting artists to fellow artists with different skill sets and levels of experience, building relationships across the community and enabling artists to get involved with the local community where they live and work.

The exhibition takes place in the new E20 neighbourhood area which was the former Olympic Athletes village. Artists were selected who live and work close by and are contributing workshops for free.

Exhibited work will include virtual reality, painting, drawing, furniture design and site-specific text.

Free and low-cost workshops to unlock your creativity will take place on Sundays 10 December and 7 January from 12-6, delivered by artists in the exhibition.

Workshops must be booked in advance via Eventbrite:

Sunday 10 December 12-2pm

Introduction to Virtual Reality Storytelling (with multiple VR experiences on view) by Electric Skies FREE

Sunday 10 December 2-4pm

Riding the White Elephant through Westfield.

Artist Dunya Kalantery invites you to take a walk with them through the wild lands of the Olympic Park and Westfield: gathering sensory and psychic impressions for a collective art work. £6 – all ages welcome.

Sunday 10 December 2-4pm

Borrow and steal like an artist

Collage workshop for all ages with Alex Fox £2

Sunday 10 December 4-6pm

Drawing Portraits with Wilfrid Wood

In this workshop we will one by one draw volunteers from the group for 15 minutes. The idea will be not to attempt photorealistic drawings but to find the most characteristic elements of the way a person looks and to slightly emphasise them. £5, materials provided

Sunday 7 January 12-1.30

Sing, Sound and Doodle with Uran Apak

Join Uran on an immersive journey to unlock the potential of your voice through improvisational games, sound painting, live looping, and a collaborative doodling and sounding session. £6

Sunday 7 January 2-4

Collective Creativity

Make a large scale painting collectively with Lindsay Mapes. All ages welcome. Family friendly FREE

PERFORMANCE for the opening 30th November

The Creative Exhibitionist 2023

Uran Apak

1hour Durational Performance using voice, loop station, paper and pen

‘Witness the artist creating in the moment’