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Early Bods is a sensory learning programme at Humber Street Gallery for 0-5 year olds.

Early Bods is a sensory learning programme at Humber Street Gallery for 0-5 year olds. It consists of playful activities and resources that help little artists to explore movement, touch, sound, sight and making.

Zivarna Murphy, a ceramic artist, will focus on 'clay play' (which she has also delivered recently working with The Herd). These will be engaging sessions for both children and their accompanying grown ups.

Please note ticket bookings are 1 per child attending. Adults do not need to book a ticket for themselves.

About Zivarna:

Zivarna Murphy is a research-based ceramic artist. Having trained in Medical Anthropology and holding a PhD in Human Sciences she brings emergent themes from her research around the social aspects of body and organ donation, namely loss, grief, continuing bonds, transformation, and emotion, into her ceramic vessels. On visits to her local East Yorkshire coastline, she observes the erosion and loss of this landscape body as a metaphor for human loss. Zivarna hand-forms her tactile vessels from stoneware, layered with eroded wild boulder clay and impressed shells, rocks and fossils, all gathered from this coastline, imbuing each piece with a strong sense of place and connection. The forms draw upon structures she sees in her local landscape such as fossilised shell bodies, ebbing cliffs and sea formed rocks. She is interested in firing as a transformative process and the becoming of the vessel body.