artsdepot invites your school to take part in an exciting new creative learning and visual arts project led by professional artists Abigail Hunt and Ngan-Sum Tse-Cappi.
This hands-on, imaginative programme will empower pupils to explore the spaces they live, learn and play in – and reimagine them through sculpture, mapping, and collaborative making.
Workshop activities may include casting architectural details; large-scale collaborative builds; walking, mapping, and collecting local imagery; and sending creative messages to partner schools.
“Incredible concept encouraging young people to re-imagine their learning space and how most of the works included the natural landscape.” – Teacher Participant from 2025 Project with MATT + FIONA
What’s on offer?
- 3x hands-on creative workshops at your school led by professional artists.
- Creative exploration of student’s local built environment exploring sustainability, architecture and design.
- A public exhibition of student work in the Apthorp Gallery at artsdepot in Easter 2026.
Why take part?
- Provides students with access to cultural resources from beyond the curriculum as wells as supporting Art & Design and Geography curriculum links.
- Builds creative problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills.
- Encourages critical thinking about sustainability and our built environments.
- Develops practical creative skills to assist in future studies.
- Offers pupils a chance to showcase their work publicly in a professional public gallery setting and build confidence.
- An opportunity to engage with professional working artists.
Who is it for?
This opportunity is open to:
- Primary Schools
- Secondary Schools
- Special Educational Needs (SEN) Schools
Workshops can be tailored to suit different Year Groups or bespoke groups of students, ensuring age-appropriate content and delivery that meets the needs of your pupils. It is imagined the class/group of students will remain consistent across the project.
Timeline and Delivery
- Mon 3 Nov 2025: Deadline for Registration of Interest Form (10am)
- Mon 10 Nov 2025 (or earlier): Schools Informed by Email on Application Outcome
- Jan-Mar 2026: In School Workshops (preferred days are Tuesdays–Thursdays, with some flexibility)
- Sun 29 Mar – Sat 11 Apr 2026: Exhibition Open to Public
How to Sign Up?
To register your interest in taking part in this project please complete the following form by 10am on Mon 3 Nov: Explore. Imagine. Rebuild – Registration of Interest.
We anticipate this project to be oversubscribed and will select schools by lottery.
There is a cost to participate in the project of £400 (+VAT) per school. This includes all artist-led workshops, materials, and participation in the final exhibition (worth over £3k). Payment will be requested once schools are confirmed.
If you have any questions, please email Roisin Omata at participation@artsdepot.co.uk.
About the Artists
Abigail Hunt has a research-based art practice incorporating collage, sculpture, installation, social engagement and event-based performance. Collaborative works with other artists and the public explore the conceptual space between form and function, often creating large-scale structures, installations and environments that invite a response or involve a direct interaction with audience. Abigail has worked as an educator for over 25 years working with galleries, museums, schools and other groups and across all ages. Projects and commissions have included working with UpProjects, Tate, IKON, Gasworks, Camden Arts Centre, The Science Gallery, Whitstable Biennale, National Trust, Orleans House Gallery and Great Ormond Street Hospital. She is an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University and works across BA and MA courses in Fine Art, Creative Arts Practice and Architecture.
Within a practice held together with tape, makeshift fixes and good intentions, Tse-Cappi explores how storytelling, space, objects and materials construct experience. Outputs span art direction, motion and graphic design, illustration, object-making, exhibition and interior design, public/community art, and commissions for commercial and editorial contexts. Glitch aesthetics, DIY methods and shonky materiality turn errors into catalysts for improvisation and hands-on experimentation. In her teaching (Integrated Foundation; Product & Furniture, Interiors, and Architecture), learners test, unmake, reassemble through messy processes, makeshift materials –producing speculative functional/dysfunctional artefacts and spatial experiments that ask: “what if?”
