NG Creative Community:

What objects do we spy in the painting, The Courtyard of a House in Delft by Pieter de Hooch? And how can these objects become tools for art-making?

You are invited to play with materials to create your own mark-making tools to recreate elements from the painting.

Using bamboos and woods, inks and charcoals, and under the guidance of an artist, be imaginative and use the natural materials in a unique and artistic way.

Emily Motto is a London-based artist. She works between sculpture, installation and drawing – often creating playful forms, arenas and mazes. Her work plays with what can happen when shapes and lines are extended into palpable forms in space, with dependencies on weight, material reactions, and physical limits; she is fascinated by how sculptural forms can share in a bodily sense of space, command attention, and hold presence. Motto’s work has featured in exhibitions globally, including Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the ICA London, the Liverpool Biennial, and the Saatchi New Sensations. She has received awards including The Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship at the British School at Rome, The Gilbert Bayes Award, and The Red Mansion Art Prize. She often works collaboratively and was commissioned to deliver a series of workshops for British Art Show 9, and an evolving work 'The Obstacle Course' for Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer.