Paper Casting with Madelon Vriesendrop

Date: November 21st, 2014
Held at: John Soane's Museum - as part of the AA Night School events.
Location: London, UK

This workshop on paper casting was held at the John Soane Museum, as part of the AA night school's series of events and workshops. Participants learned how to make paper casts using items of the Soane under the supervision of Madelon Vriesendrop, who began the workshop by introducing her own collection of mass produced treasures and esoteric trinkets before leading a candle-lit tour into the spaces and objects of Soane’s house-museum.

About Madelon Vriesendrop
Madelon Vriesendorp was a founding member of O.M.A. together with her husband Rem Koolhaas, and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. She is well known for her paintings which were featured in the book Delirious New York and in numerous magazines. Her artwork has been exhibited widely including shows at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Guggenheim, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Madelon has taught at the Architectural Association, Harvard, and other schools internationally.  In 2009 Madelon was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Following the workshop, as I was working on a project about manufacturing Britain for my master studies at Goldsmiths University of London, I made some collage images, stacking my paper cast eye on photographs of Industrial decay.