Imagining Play – a workshop for creatives living with disability

A tactile sculpture workshop where participants build imaginative play spaces using accessible, sensory materials.

About the workshop

This tactile, mixed-media sculpture workshop invites participants with disability to explore ideas of play through hands-on art making. Working with accessible materials, participants will imagine and build their own imaginative playful environments such as playgrounds, amusement parks or abstract playscapes.

The workshop centres sensory and creative exploration rather than technical skill or realism. Participants are encouraged to follow their curiosity, responding to how play feels through touching, stacking, bending and connecting materials. Structures might take the form of slides, rides, paths, tunnels or entirely imagined spaces, shaped by individual interests and ways of working.

Materials are chosen for their tactile and flexible qualities and include cardboard bases and tubes, foam shapes, fabric and felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, straws, craft sticks, modelling clay, textured papers, foil, glue and tape. The workshop is designed to be supportive, open-ended and playful, creating space for experimentation, enjoyment and self-expression.

About the artist

Christian Bonett is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works on Gadigal Land (Sydney). His practice incorporates installation, ceramic sculpture, painting, and neon elements. Bonett’s work explores the visual language of cars, signage, roads, and urban environments - playfully transforming everyday forms to challenge ideas of identity, gender, class, consumerism and place.

Bonett holds an MFA from the National Art School, a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the Manchester School of Art (UK), and a Bachelor of Art Education from UNSW.

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When | Thursday 5 March, 10.00 AM - 1:00PM

Where | Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf

Cost | Free- Light refereshments and a mid-workshop snack included

Capacity | 15

Transport and parking | The Gallery can be reached via public transport (buses 324, 325 or 326, or walk from Edgecliff Station or Double Bay Wharf). After-hours parking is available at Council Chambers (536 New South Head Rd, Double Bay NSW 2028). If you are arriving via UBER or Taxi please request a drop-off or collection at the Council Chambers.

Image credit | Christian Bonett, 2025.