Batik Workshops

In my last week in residence at Tooting Market I held some batik workshops, along side Jeni who was teaching bag making from recycled materials.

With it being half term this week I didn't manage to get much of my own work done and turned into a bit of a creche for the kids of the market traders! For me the residency was about involving the immediate community of market stall holders and local people in participatory workshops, skills sharing and understanding the market heritage. Although at times I felt that the market traders didn't understand our use of space, I really enjoyed getting to know the locals. Conversations around the techniques I was using jogged the memories of some of the locals, as they remembered using batik in Ghana and also in India before they came to England.