We Stood, Peering into the Rippling Water: 8mm film making and sustainable processing workshop with Gregory Herbert

Led by exhibiting artist Gregory Herbert.
This is an in-person event at Castlefield Gallery.

The workshop will begin with a short walk, exploring the area around Castlefield Gallery, including the nearby canal and green spaces. Participants will collectively film a roll of 8mm film in response to a set of prompts from Herbert. These prompts will be designed to encourage collective dreaming and the messy process of imagining futures together.

The workshop is in part inspired by Herbert's artwork in our current exhibition It Requires Getting Lost. Herbert’s piece Well wishing, wishing well (2025) features a wishing well which he sees as a site shaped by reflection, shared hope and contamination. Through a sustainable 8mm film development process devised by Herbert, participants will combine and transform what they have gathered on the walk including plant material, images and wishes. They will be developed into a short film that will be screened at the end of the session. Herbert hopes the workshop and the collaboratively produced film will create space for the gathered materials to contaminate each other embracing a sense of entangled hopes, transformation and possibility.

A digital version of the film will be shared with all participants after the workshop and a further screening of the film will take place on Feb 7th as part of It Requires Getting Lost: Live.

Note: the workshop involves handline dishwasher crystals

It Requires Getting Lost is the result of a unique partnership between the Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), Venture Arts and Castlefield Gallery. Three artists working in the North of England –– Gregory Herbert, Malik Jama and Jocelyn McGregor –– have been invited by the partner organisations to work in dialogue with one another and in response to major works from one of the UK’s most significant private collections, the David and Indrė Roberts Collection (managed by RIA). These major works, co-selected by all involved, will be featured in the exhibition.

Please note that tickets are not refundable.