Adult Summer Workshop

Understanding Creative Identity

Name: Hereford College of Arts
Price range: $

Cost

£80
Tutor

Nicola Lillie
Duration

2 Days
Dates

23rd & 24th July

MA Contemporary Crafts

Build a clearer creative identity and open up new possibilities for your practice.

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Overview

Unlock the core of your creative identity in this energising, cross‑disciplinary course designed for makers, thinkers, and practitioners with an existing skill or passion. Through guided exploration, you’ll uncover the common themes that shape your work, identify the drivers that motivate you, and map meaningful connections between your practice and wider cultural or conceptual territories.

This course empowers you to situate your practice with confidence, while revealing new directions for growth and expansion. Expect clarity, momentum, and a deeper understanding of what makes your creative voice distinctly yours.

About the Tutor

A multi-disciplinary lecturer and maker, and former contestant on the BBC jewellery design show All That Glitters. She teaches on our BA Contemporary Design Crafts, BA Jewellery Design and BA Artist Blacksmithing courses. Nicola holds a First Class Bachelor's Degree; a Master’s Degree with Distinction in Contemporary Crafts and has owned her contemporary jewellery business, Nicola Lillie Design, since 2015.

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FAQs

You won't need to bring any materials with you, everything will be provided. You may want to bring a sketchbook of ideas or even examples of your work, but this is not necessary.

This course will be held at our Folly Lane campus.

This course will take place over 2 days from 23rd July - 24th July

The workshop will start at 10am and finish at 4pm. You may need to arrive earlier than 10am on your first day for registration.

This workshop is suitable for anyone over the age of 16.

We recommend that attendees between the ages of 16 and 18 are accompanied by a parent or guardian who is also a paying participant.

This workshop is suitable for people with an existing practice, whether that is a creative hobby that you have recently started getting into, or whether it's an established craft practice that you have been doing for many years.

We keep our class sizes small so that you benefit from a lot of contact time with the tutor. There will be a maximum of 12 people on this course.

Yes, there will be a 45 minute break for lunch. Unfortunately, our on-campus cafe won't be open during this time, but there is a corner shop just across the road from the campus where you can buy lunch, or you can bring your own.

Light refreshments such as tea and coffee will be provided.