From the Ground Up – Roberta De Caro

From the Ground Up delivers community art workshops to involve people in creative engagement with materials. These are for everyone, particularly for those who usually don’t have access to the arts due to low income or marginalisation including vulnerable adults and children . Working in collaboration with different artists and makers, From the Ground Up rolls out a programme of diverse workshops for different community groups, setting the basis for the creation of a non-for-profit organisation that shares the love of art making with people, whilst providing work opportunities for art students and art practitioners.

Soap Carving workshop at Beatrix Potter Primary School in Earlsfield , July 2019.

The children certainly rose to the challenge and created beautiful mini soap sculptures with the Sole soap bars leftover from This is How We Dismantle It, regenerating the soap and learning together.

From the Fragment to the Whole was planned for March 2020; it has been suspended due to Covid19.

This series of workshops is designed for survivors of domestic abuse. Working from shards of glass the participants will create new objects that not only reflect and refract the light but also their own experiences as survivors. Roberta will explore how the material qualities of glass can be used to reconstruct, repair and heal the fragmented self. This project was awarded the Student Initiated Project Prize 2019 at City & Guilds of London Art School .

All programmes for 2020 suspended due to Covid19.

Making Rudolph, December 2020.

I worked in collaboration with Cinzia Ciaramiccoli of the theatre company ‘The ItinerAnts’ to make a festive Rudolf-making workshop from recycled and natural materials for children in Kennington SE11. The workshop was run outside in line with the government’s guideline, at the back of St. Anselm’s Church.