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Chew for them they
forget to swallow
A Collaborative Creative Residency with Velvet Ramos
During the residency, Ramos will bring together different strands of her practice through a new participatory project developed in response to Ayr and its communities.
A particular focus will be the development of Chew for they forget to swallow as a first live act, alongside food, material processes and shared making. The public-facing studio will become part kitchen, part stage and part installation — a space where the work can unfold through encounters, conversation, observation and participation.
Coming from an island shaped by other waters, Ramos approaches Ayr with curiosity and attentiveness, seeking to listen and respond rather than arrive with a fixed idea of place. She is interested in the layers already present within the town — its food, stories, people and everyday encounters — and in how these might become part of the work.
The project considers regeneration as an ongoing process: something that shifts, decays, reforms and grows through collective attention and care.
About Velvet Ramos
Velvet Zoé Ramos is an interdisciplinary artist from Aruba working across installation, performance, food, printmaking and participatory practice. Her work explores empathy, memory, identity and connection through play, material processes and shared experiences. During the residency, she will develop Chew for they forget to swallow alongside food, making and participatory encounters in response to Ayr and its communities.
THE WORKSHOPS
Blank Canvas Workshop Series with Velvet Ramos: Chew for them they forget to swallow
Wed 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th October, 5:30pm - 9pm
Please Note: This is a 4-part weekly series taking place every Wednesday evening in October (7th, 14th, 21st, & 28th) from 5.30 to 9pm. You must be able to attend all workshops
What happens when a meal becomes a script, a space becomes something we wear, and an encounter becomes an act?
During her Blank Canvas residency, interdisciplinary artist Velvet Zoé Ramos brings together The Feast: Stoba, Interlasado, and Chew for they forget to swallow in an evolving project shaped by food, memory, mark-making and performance.
You are invited to become part of the process. Cook and develop recipes through taste and shared memories; gather words and stories for a collective script; make marks, prints and wearable pieces; help dress and transform the space; or experiment with these elements through performance.
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
The Artist and Bread: Blank Canvas Artist Talk with Velvet Zoé Ramos
Wed 21st October, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Join interdisciplinary artist Velvet Zoé Ramos for an evening of bread, art and conversation. Through a presentation of her practice, she will share how bread has become both a material and a symbol of survival, spirituality and human consumption, while remaining, by its very nature, ephemeral.
We’ll begin around a shared bread table! Bring along your favourite cheese or spread to enjoy together before the artist talk. The bread will be waiting!
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
Opening Exhibiton Velvet Ramos: Chew for them they forget to swallow
Fri 30th October, 4pm - 8pm
Join us to celebrate the opening exhibtion of Velvet Ramos coming all the way from Aruba, who has spent a month working with performance, food and installation in MAKE!
During her Blank Canvas residency, interdisciplinary artist Velvet Zoé Ramos brings together The Feast: Stoba, Interlasado, and Chew for they forget to swallow in an evolving project shaped by food, memory, mark-making and performance.
Across the residency, ingredients, stories, objects and marks will accumulate and transform the studio into a living installation. The process will eventually come together through food, wearables, performance and a shared final act.
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
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