Inspired by the Australian First Nation’s stories of the Seven Sisters’ journey along ancestral routes – as showcased in Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art invites participants into another form of mapping and storytelling: a collaborative canvas where marks, movement, and memory come together to form shared visual journeys.Rooted in intuitive gesture and mindful repetition, this workshop explores how individual rhythms merge into a collective artwork. Through guided exercises in mark-making, silence, and narrative mapping, participants discover how stories can be traced not only through words but also through colour, pattern, and the energy of a group. Each mark becomes a route, each layer a lived moment, echoing the spirit of Songlines, where landscapes hold histories, and stories travel across time.Workshop OverviewDay 1 – Flow, Rhythm & Collective EnergyThe workshop opens with an introduction to the canvas as a shared space. Participants engage with movement-based mark-making, a journey of stepping, stretching, and responding to the surface with spontaneity. Through stippling, repetition, and mindful observation, the group explores how gestures evolve into patterns that connect rather than isolate. The session becomes a gentle entry into silence, presence, and awareness, allowing the canvas to grow organically through collective energy.Day 2 – Mapping Stories & Visual NarrativesThe second day invites participants to bring personal journeys into the artwork. Beginning with a storytelling circle, the group reflects on experiences of movement, transformation, refuge, and memory. These narratives are translated into flowing lines, dots, symbols, and layered marks that weave across the shared surface. As participants build upon each other’s gestures, the canvas becomes a map of intertwined stories bridging individual experiences with collective expression. The workshop concludes with reflection and conversation on how journeys, emotions, and symbols travel across cultures and artistic languages.Takeaways* Explore mark-making as movement, meditation, and expression* Learn how stories translate into visual motifs and pathways* Experience collective creation on a large shared canvas* Understand connections between Songlines and contemporary collaborative art* Take home insights on rhythm, presence, and narrative mappingThis workshop accompanies 'Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters', the first major National Museum of Australia exhibition to tour India, presented in partnership with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, at the Humayun's Tomb World Heritage Site Museum.
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