Are you aged between 15 – 19 years? Take part in a sculpture workshop inspired by the exhibition ‘Angel Otero. Agua Salada’ at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.
Led by our Learning team, join us for an afternoon of exploration, exchange and experimentation:
Discover the exhibition’s themes of memory and identity, exploring the ways these influence how we experience artworks.
Take a deep dive into Angel Otero’s outdoor sculpture ‘Dreams and Salt’ (2026)—an open doorway into the ground and a portal into an unexpected place—designed to inspire an afternoon of ideas, exchange and hands-on making of sculptural forms in our ‘Education Lab: Echoes.’
By working through a series of quick-fire activities, you will experiment with materials and found objects to create a three-dimensional artwork—building, layering, repurposing and sculpting forms that carve a unique story of your own.
Leave your mark by displaying your sculpture in the Education Lab, contributing to a growing community archive.
Tickets are free, but advance booking is required. If you are able, we encourage donations to our 2024 – 2026 charity partner Good Company Bruton.
Please note that this workshop is suitable for 15 – 19 year olds.
For more information, contact hwsomersetlearning@hauserwirth.com.
About ‘Angel Otero. Agua Salada’
On view through 18 October, Angel Otero’s UK exhibition features a deeply personal body of work completed during an artist residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Known for his physically immersive approach to paint as material, Otero transforms the medium itself—scraping, layering and peeling dried oil paint to create richly textured compositions that hover between abstraction and figuration. Moving his studio practice from New York and Puerto Rico temporarily to Somerset, the residency provided Otero with the opportunity to continue his exploration of memory, place and meaning in the context of a new environment.
About Angel Otero
Angel Otero’s practice is known for employing highly innovative techniques that challenge the parameters of his materials, revealing the intrinsic qualities of paint. His works are rooted in abstract image making and engage with ideas of memory through addressing art history, as well as his own lived experience. His signature mode of storytelling evokes the ways in which household objects become personified through the lens of memory. These objects, seemingly quotidian at first glance, take on the role of surrogates for family members and moments from the artist’s past.
About ‘Education Lab: Echoes’
The ‘Education Lab: Echoes’ accompanies the exhibition ‘Angel Otero. Agua Salada’ and explores how memory shapes who we are. Developed in collaboration with Museum To You, a Somerset-based charity supporting older adults in care settings and our youth collective, Arthaus, the Education Lab centers on intergenerational exchange and collective creativity.Community stories, short films and a collaborative memory wall will develop over the course of the exhibition, alongside a soundscape co-produced with local care home residents, inspired by Angel Otero’s reflections on people, place and personal fragments.
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Please be advised that photographs will be taken at this event for use on the Hauser & Wirth website, social media and in other marketing materials.
