the gleaners

exploration of material and place through walking, making and collective knowledge sharing with locally gathered matter

This open workshop is centred on gathering, making, and spending time together through simple handwork. It is an invitation to experiment and play with locally foraged materials — weaving, painting, assembling, and dyeing — as a way of exploring how we build connections to the environments we live in. The focus is not on producing a finished object, but on process: learning from materials, sharing knowledge, and making space for conversation.

The workshop begins with a morning walk around La Escocesa and Sant Marti area, gathering the materials we will work with later. It is inspired by informal, communal environments of chatting around handiwork — spaces of slowness, exchange, and collective learning. Materials are provided and free but if you would like to bring along additional materials you are welcome too.

bio

Hannah Rebekah Taylor (1993) is a grower, dyer and artist. She was born in the UK and spent her childhood growing up in South Africa and later rural England. She studied Anthropology at Sussex University. She has lived and worked in Paris, London, and Marseille where she now resides in the Belle de Mai neighbourhood. Her work draws from her cross cultural upbringing and her Anthropology studies, exploring story telling and human connection to land, environment and found materials, specifically in the context of the climate crisis. Hannah works predominantly with reclaimed and foraged materials, natural dyes and pigments. She has previously collaborated with ‘The School of Mutants’ collective. Her work has been shown in London, Kaunas, Ljubljana and Marseille.

Activity carried out within the framework of the MATCH (Mediterranean as the Climate Hotspot) residencies. MATCH is a European cultural cooperation project on climate migration, community gardens and sustainable practices. The project connects five cultural organizations based in the Mediterranean: Mapa das Ideas (PT), D6:EU (CY), La Friche la Belle de Mai (FR), BJCEM (BE), and the National Technical University of Athens (GR), each working with a local arts and community garden partners.