Reframed - Imagined Futures

Join an illustration and collage workshop led by artist and educator Elyssa Rider.

Reframed - Imagined Futures invites participants to creatively respond to the next exhibition 'Londoners on Trial at The London Archives. Taking inspiration from the archival portraits on display, participants will learn to draw their own illustrated interpretations of these individuals to respond to them with empathy and imagination.

Through a second stage of collage, attendees will design simple, expressive backgrounds, lifting their drawn figures out of confinement and into reimagined futures. Together, these works become acts of creative reclamation.

About the artist:

Elyssa Rider is a freelance artist and educator whose practice weaves together illustration, narrative, and the depiction of hopeful futures for those with marginalised identities. Her work has been commissioned by the likes of the University of Cambridge, Spectrum Journal, and the London Archives. In this session, Elyssa Rider encourages participants to blend empathy, observation, and imagination — reframing the past to reveal new possibilities of care and freedom.