In collaboration between ActionSpace and Goldsmiths, University of London, two ActionSpace artists—Linda Bell and Andrew Omoding—led workshops with current BA Fine Art students in February and March 2025. The workshops provided students with an opportunity to engage directly with the artists’ practices, offering valuable insight into their creative processes and artistic journeys.
Andrew Omoding: Mixed Media and Personal Narrative
Andrew Omoding, led a workshop focused on his instinctive and autobiographical art-making process. Working with found and reclaimed materials, Andrew creates large-scale sculptural forms through wrapping, layering, and binding, producing vibrant and textured assemblages.
During the session, Andrew guided students to create their own sculptures using materials they gathered, encouraging them to embrace their intuition and personal connection to the materials. Andrew also shared insights into his recent exhibitions at Camden Art Centre and Woodend Gallery, and introduced students to the performative elements of his practice.
Linda Bell: Participatory Art and Interactive Sculpture
Linda Bell creates large-scale sculptural works that are interactive, tactile, and often performative. In her workshop, Linda invited students to engage with her materials—foil, paper, fabric—and observe how they transform through repeated movements and assembly. Her practice is grounded in the sensory qualities of these materials, and the ways they can be reshaped through motion and improvisation.
Students were encouraged to explore how movement and interaction can extend the sculptural form, with Linda sharing how performance is used in her own work to deepen the relationship between the artwork, artist, and audience.
This partnership gave Goldsmiths students the opportunity to experience new ways of thinking about sculpture, collaboration, and performance, directly informed by the distinctive practices of two leading ActionSpace artists. We look forward to continuing this relationship and expanding opportunities for creative exchange in the future.
