Mapping Ancestry Workshop

Join artist Jade Johnson for an intimate workshop about mapping ancestry through storytelling, illustration and conversation.

Mapping Ancestry Workshop: Hold me The Way a Valley Holds Her Mountains

Jade Johnson

This workshop is part of a two day exhibtion in Brompton Cemetery: Hold Me the Way a Valley Holds Her Mountains, Jade Johnson ( 28th-29th March 2026)

Workshop: 28 March, 1–4pm (drop in, stay as long as you like)

Location: The Chapel, Brompton Cemetery, London SW10 9UQ

Part installation and part workshop, the installation becomes a temporary valley within the city. Through the workshop 𝘔𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺, you’re invited to question: who creates the borders and if it were you, where would you draw yours? Using mapping as a tool not only for navigation but as a way to redefine place, to remember but also to dream.

You will be encouraged to enter the creative activities offered with a family member, a friend or even a stranger. Artist Jade Johnson (UK) invites participants to remember a river but not through its current shape, but through how it exists in your memory, how it is immortalised through stories. You can also try out a partner exercise, where one person describes a place from memory and another maps it through description alone- creating pathways with the imagined and the remembered. Together we will ask: how do we map the intangible, and what new lands emerge when we do?