Summer in the Studio: Paper Cities

Event information

• Type: Workshops
• Date: Various dates from 18 August 2026
• Tickets: Free
• Location: The National Gallery
• Address: Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN, UK
• Official page: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/summer-in-the-studio-paper-cities-august-2026

Details

About

Join us for a fun creative workshop in the Clore Art Studio and build your own paper city!

Inspired by the canals and winding streets of Canaletto's painting, ‘A Regatta on the Grand Canal’, and the children's artwork in the Take One Picture exhibition. You are invited to learn simple folding and twisting techniques – as well as to invent your own – and design a table-top cityscape full of bustling streets, bridges and waterways.

Our unique and beautiful papers are sourced and reclaimed with sustainable intentions, adding to a city which is entirely your own.

Your Artists

Kevin Christensen is an artist and one of our Gallery Educators. He uses drawing to interpret people, places and history through mark making, gesture and the movement of pen over paper. He translates these drawings into zines and comics to tell new stories, often focused on queer lives and experiences. As an educator, Kevin has encouraged audiences to interpret art and tell their own stories at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, the Farrell Centre, the Laing and Shipley Art Galleries, and the National Gallery.

William Goldsmith is a Gallery Educator at the National Gallery, as well as an author, artist and illustrator. He creates artworks that combine a love of colour and pattern with a playful sense of humour. He has worked with The Royal Opera House, The World of Interiors, Penguin Random House, and The New York Times, and recently as an artist-in-residence at the Archivio Luigi Pericle, in Switzerland.