Workshop: Photographic collage mapping

Bring your own digital camera if you have one and make use of a rich resource of materials to create your own place-based photocollage.

See your surroundings differently. Reclaim the spaces you know.

Join this creative, hands-on workshop where photography and collage come together to reimagine your connection to place. Using a mix of printed images, personal photography, and found materials, you’ll create your own unique photographic map of a space that matters to you.

Whether you’re drawn to the streets of Street, Glastonbury, and the surrounding area, or exploring the Shoemaker’s Museum and its nearby spaces, this workshop invites you to look closer — noticing the overlooked details, hidden stories, and unexpected beauty in familiar environments.

You might choose to:

• Take a short photo walk around the museum, its grounds, or Clark’s Village, capturing fresh perspectives
• Work with images of your own local spaces
• Combine archival materials with your photography to tell layered, personal stories

This process celebrates a neurodivergent way of seeing and connecting, encouraging curiosity, playfulness, and individuality. It’s about transforming the everyday into something vibrant and meaningful — a creative reclamation of place, identity, and belonging.

Themes & Inspiration

• Local histories, folklore, and collective memory
• Personal and emotional connections to place
• Queer perspectives and Pride themes of belonging and space
• Social and community storytelling

The Artist

This workshop is led by Tomos Wray one of the four artists exhibiting in the current exhibition “A Walk in our Shoes” on throughout June.

As a bold, queer, Autistic fine art photographic artist, Tomos Wray creates digital outcomes that explore their identity in relation to spatial emotivity, wider cultural spirituality and rural community dynamics. Thanks to experience gained from their BA Photography Degree at Arts University Bournemouth through 2022-2025, as well as their own deep-welled love for artistic influences, Wray blends many periodically recognisable art styles to portray the many ways in which they feel their identity opposes, or works in harmony with their lived environments, revealing emotions such as grief, anger, frustration and overwhelm, but also hope, determination, pride and love for themselves, and for their local community.

You’ll also get insight into the artist’s recent projects, including “1214 – Buses with a View” and “Weather Dependant / In My Vanes.”

What’s included?

All materials will be available, including:

• A rich selection of printed photographic collage materials
• Archival imagery, flyers, posters, and museum ephemera
• Card, paper, scissors, glue, and drawing tools
• Access to image processing and printing for photos taken on the day

If possible, please bring your own digital camera (DSLR preferred) to make transferring and printing your images quick and easy.

When?

10am – 1pm with three dates to choose from: