Earlier this year for PUSH Festival, artist Maisie Pritchard led a series of workshops focused on creating sculptural objects using clay, cardboard and paper. The sessions aimed to develop skills-sharing, encourage experimentation and discover new ways of seeing everyday materials and objects.
Maisie invited participants to explore new processes and actively engage with the space, objects and materials around them. The workshops were centred around the idea of a ‘Make Space’. Together, the workshops celebrated collective making, creative participation, and highlighted the need for more creative spaces.
This exhibition brings together objects made during the workshops and bespoke furniture specifically designed and built by Maisie. This sculptural display unit invites function and play, transforming Arch 3 into a hybrid space: part studio, part materials store, part workshop and part exhibition display.
About the artist
Maisie is an artist and creative facilitator living in Manchester with a studio at Paradise Works in Salford. She has an active role across the Northwest having worked with organisations such as Yellowhammer, Castlefield Gallery & the National Festival of Making. Her practice is multifaceted, yet always based around the use of materials and making. She is interested in how artistic and design processes can crossover to generate functional and interactive sculpture or art objects. Maisie enjoys working with the public to make playful, useful and meaningful artworks, often relying on participation to create or activate the work. Sometimes, this takes place through public workshops that incorporate teaching, sharing and exchanging creative skills and making processes.
Maisie is currently exploring new ideas with materials and making processes that she is unfamiliar with. She has been working with clay to expand on previous artworks and materials, to develop ideas for participatory projects. As part of this, she has been exploring new ways of working with materials to facilitate participatory artworks within gallery contexts.
Maisie Pritchard (b. 1997) lives and works in Manchester. She has a BA in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art. Maisie has recently been investing in her studio and making practice through the support of an Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, and Early-Mid Career Award from The Haworth Trust Scholarship Programme. Recent projects include: 'Make Yourself at HOME’ a public making project commissioned for PUSH Festival 2025; ‘FINGER!’ Paradise Works at The Manchester Contemporary, ‘Output/Input’ Paradise Works, and ‘Bushcrafters’ Prism Contemporary & The Second Act.
Join us for our social event on Wed 25 Jun to celebrate Maisie's exhibition in the HOME Arches. For more information about the event please click this link.
