Tracing Together- A Creative Workshop

Join digital art collective Compiler for a playful, hands-on workshop to explore personal geographies, shared memories, and acts of resistance through pixel art and pattern-making.

We will create digital pattern designs that reflect things that matter to us in our local areas. Using a pixel art tool and chequered templates, we will encode places, stories, or feelings into a collective digital tapestry.

Creations and outcomes from the workshop will become part of Tracing Together, a growing installation on LED screens here at Eastbury Manor.

All welcome, family friendly. All materials will be provided. No previous experience necessary.

About The Exhibition

Following its presentation at the Women’s Museum, Compiler’s Tracing Together has relocated to Eastbury Manor House.

Developed through workshops with local participants, the installation transforms personal journeys, overlooked routes, and meaningful places into a shared digital tapestry. Using low-impact, low-resolution image-making techniques, the work reflects on slower forms of connection and collective memory-making in an increasingly fast-paced digital age.

In its new location at Eastbury Manor House, Tracing Together also reflects on the evolution of tapestry as a medium. Historically, Elizabethan tapestries would have hung in houses like this one, telling stories through woven images. Here, those traditions are reimagined through contemporary digital processes, creating a new kind of tapestry that maps the lived experiences of local communities.

Artist Biography

Compiler is a digital art collective led by Tanya Boyarkina and Oscar Cass-Darweish. The group’s creative practice explores social and political challenges in digital culture. They aim to create accessible works and events for audiences with different skills, knowledge and abilities to better understand emerging digital technologies.