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Workshops at Centrale led by artist Fanny Peyratout
In the context of the exhibition Michel Couturier - la friche la galaxie, Centrale offers 6 workshops led by Fanny Peyratout.
Wednesdays 05 & 19.11, 03 & 17.12.2025 ; 14 & 28.01.2026 – 14:00 > 16:00 – € 7,5 (entrance to the exhibition included and material provided), € 1,25 (Art. 27)
Intergenerational workshops (from 8 years)
Info and reservations: info@centrale.brussels
In this series of workshops, we will explore the shapes and volumes of the urban landscape, approaching them as lines that generate a form of writing. How can they be made to interact with one another? No drawing skills are required: these sessions invite you to express yourself and to discover a shared language. We will work on both a large and a small scale, bringing two graphic design media into dialogue: the large format, recalling a collectively created panorama, and a series of smaller formats that each participant can take away and disseminate throughout the territory.
5 November 2025 - Conversation about urban landscapes
Technique: Drawing and sketching (dry techniques and felt-tip pens)
In this workshop, we will reflect on the notion of landscape and urban territory, with the aim of shaping a language for the city and developing its graphic expression. What can be discerned in the lines that define urban space? Each participant will be invited to sketch their own skyline on small formats before joining together to unfurl a long roll of paper to be filled collectively.
19 November 2025 - Creating a legend
Technique: Ink printing
We will create textured surfaces to be inserted into our landscapes, as backgrounds or as elements within the construction of images. From these experiments, we will compose captions and assemble a repertoire of our research. We will observe the different graphic styles that can be achieved through material imprints. By folding, tearing, and stretching the material, and by using different colours, we will produce overlapping prints. The aim is then to link feelings, emotions, and sensations to these textured surfaces in order to create meaningful impressions.
3 December 2025 & 28 january 2026 - Creating repetition
Technique: Ink drawing
Taking as a starting point an element of urban space or a recurring motif from Michel Couturier’s work, we will experiment with the creation of multiples. Similar objects — without being strictly identical — will emerge in ink through repeated brushstrokes, smudges, and gestures. The ‘imperfect’ work of the hand will allow the particularities of each motif to reveal themselves.
17 December 2025 - Considering typologies of representation
Technique: Monotype print and frottage
What do the possibilities of reproduction bring to graphic design? In this workshop, the shapes created in the previous session will serve as cut-out templates for making monotypes (a monotype being the reproduction of an image by direct pressure from an inked plate). The most compelling combinations will then be transferred onto the large collective format.
14 January 2026 - Maps of the sky
Technique: Ink printing and drawing
This session will offer an opportunity to give form to fictions, fantasies, and speculations about what takes place above our heads, beyond our perception. We will sketch out each participant’s visions to be transposed into a collective format. Using the ink wash technique, we will create prints evoking stratospheric activity and phenomena.
Fanny Peyratout (France, 1986) discovered her passion for engraving in 2009 at the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she explored a range of techniques with genuine enthusiasm. After a journey through Latin America, where she explored local workshops and artists, she returned to Europe to further refine her training in printmaking. A graduate in engraving from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (ARBA-ESA), she works between Belgium, France, and Switzerland. Since 2018, she has continued her engraving practice at the RHoK Academie in Etterbeek. Between 2016 and 2022, her work focused on the representation of urban territory and its place within the history of cartography. Shifting her graphic research towards the representation of time, she has developed a practice that has expanded into multiple forms. Since 2022, Fanny Peyratout has extended her explorations in drawing into the field of lithography. Autobiographical and dreamlike narratives unfold in parallel with the ‘clichés’ and cultural references she chooses to engage with. She also leads workshops on drawing and printmaking techniques, including intaglio and monotype.