L-INK guide to Mali Morris
An activity sheet designed by L-INK group members.
L-INK
Are you 16-21 years old? Would you like to work with artworks, artists, curators & collections? Do you like meeting new people working as part of a team?
L-INK are looking for YOU!
About L-INK
L-INK are a group of young people who work with the Hatton Gallery to create events, workshops, resources and make their own art work. The project runs annually, beginning each year in October and finishing in June – July, in line with school and college terms. Each year, the L-INK project invites new participants to join, as some older members leave to study or work in different places. The group is usually made up of a core 15 young people, who attend schools and colleges in Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside and Durham
The L-INK 2025/26 project builds on themes from the previous year during which the group, inspired by Laing & Hatton exhibitions, have considered the relationship between artist and curator, working with collections and with practising artists.
L-INK Taster Workshop with Artist Karen Rann
Saturday 20 September 2025
10.30am – 3.30pm, Hatton Gallery
Snacks provided, please bring your own lunch.
Join us at for this creative and practical workshop with artist Karen Rann and Hatton Gallery team. Discover different ways of making artwork, talk with L-INK group members and find out more about the L-INK 2025/26 project.
About Karen Rann: Following a two-year British Council scholarship at the Fine Art Academy in Budapest, Hungary, Rann’s projects focussed on location-based responses to place. Back in the UK, she held residencies with Wysing Arts in Cambridgeshire, the Salt Museum Cheshire, the Walker Gallery in Liverpool, St Andrew’s Cathedral Inverness, and Kulturtage (Theatre) in Oldenburg, Germany.
In 2013, a residency with Gairloch Heritage Museum cemented her commitment to using recycled, found or natural materials and a residency with the National Trust for Scotland elicited further turning points. Based in the grounds of Brodick Castle on the Isle of Arran, where there had been outbreaks of phytophthora, Rann’s intervention Nature of Change used only what was already there:
‘I brought nothing in beyond a pair of scissors. It was also on Arran that I began research into historical methods for flattening landscape onto paper maps (most particularly the emergence of contour lines).’
These investigations were further developed through the ACE funded project The Great Lines (2016), and Creative Scotland funded Lines of Attraction (2018). Material generated during these projects informed a Fine Art MA, and subsequently an AHRC funded PhD titled Horizontal Hills at Queen’s University Belfast.
Find out more: www.karenrann.co.uk
Register for the workshops: L-INK REGISTRATION FORM
Any questions? Email zoe.allen@northeastmuseums.org.uk
Hodgson Sayers sponsor North East Museums young people’s programme.
