Family Saturday

Join artist Fabien Verschaere for a free creative workshop and enter his world of fairytales and dreams.

Verschaere invites families to make large-scale spontaneous drawings – responding to music, stories and other prompts, you can let your imagination run wild, working as small or large as you like. At this workshop, Verschaere reveals the inspirations and processes behind his artwork, including the new wall-based paintings specially commissioned for Friends in Love and War – L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es at Ikon Gallery.

The exhibition is supported by the British Council and is presented as part of UK/France Spotlight on Culture 2024 Together We Imagine, with additional support from Fluxus Art Projects and Birmingham City University.

About the artist

Fabien Verschaere is a French artist, born in 1975 in Vincennes. His unique artistic practice, both tragic and comic, is full of hybrid creatures, monsters and chimeras, generated from his unbridled imagination and referencing pop culture, history and daily life. Using watercolours, drawing, painting on canvas, sculpture, installation and film, Verschaere explores the human condition, mingling dreams and nightmares, to project the world as seen through the eyes of a child traumatised by numerous long stays in hospital. Passionate about drawing, he has practiced every day since childhood.

About Family Saturday

Family Saturday takes place on the first Saturday of every month – join us for a drop-in creative activity, led by a local artist. Open to all ages.

Please consider making a donation for this free activity.

This event is presented as part of The 2024 Big Draw Festival (1-31 October). The theme this year is Drawing in Motion.