The choice of what we wear can offer signals, create visibility and be a celebration of self-expression. In this workshop, Nandita Shankardass, founder of Welcome Movement © draws inspiration from Ashish Gupta’s motivation for his designs and Ashish Shah’s photography in the current exhibition Ashish: Fall in Love and Be More Tender.

You will be guided on a journey of imagining and designing an outfit to express yourself, exploring the textures and movement of fabrics and the way in which they are created. You will then take part in a dance and movement experience to embody your design on the catwalk!  This is an activity for any age to enjoy and express through design and dance.

“We can express ourselves and our identity through the way in which we dress, the fabric we favour, the parts of us we decide to cover, those parts we show and the way it settles and falls on our skin. The colours we choose can give a clue or extension of how we feel. Fashion is a form of powerful self-expression, of making a statement without a sound, yet its presence creates a vibration, permitting the power of the movement and colour of the cloth to tell a story and create an energy around us.”  Nandita Shankardass