About Bat Junk Modelling with Tat Vision

Family Bat-Making Workshop: Inspired by Birmingham’s Music & Heritage.


This school holiday, join Birmingham artist Tat Vision at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for a fun and creative papier-mâché junk-modelling workshop.
Using recycled materials, families will design and build their very own bats ,from spooky and playful to bold and rock-inspired creations. Take inspiration from the Working Class Hero exhibition and Birmingham’s legendary music heritage, including the iconic legacy of Black Sabbath.


Perfect for all ages, this hands-on session is a great chance to get creative together, celebrate the city’s culture, and bring your unique bat to life!

This event is part of What We Make Here, a six-week series of family-friendly workshops led by Birmingham-based artists, inviting participants of all ages to explore making, materials, and creative expression together.

Location : The engagement studio

About the artist

Tat Vision

Tat Vision is a Brummie papier-mâché pop artist, performer and workshop facilitator who graduated from Birmingham City University with a BA in Fine Art in 2012. His practice is rooted in a childhood fascination with just you know –creating. Inspired by the belief that art can be created anywhere, from anything, by anyone, like cardboard and/or old socks. That early influence continues to inform his material choices and accessible approach. Working primarily in papier-mâché, cardboard and reclaimed second-hand materials or you know, bits of tat from the charity shop.

Tat Vision reimagines figures from popular culture, distorting the familiar into exaggerated, imperfect, and often grotesque and daft looking forms. His sculptures embrace parody, awkwardness and ugliness as tools to question nostalgia, celebrity and mass consumption. By deliberately adopting a playful, childlike aesthetic, he disrupts polished pop imagery and shakes out the fragility beneath the surface, similar to how an orangutan would shake a tree to get some fruit. Alongside his studio practice, he hosts and performs live shows and delivers participatory workshops across schools, community settings and cultural events. Through both making and performance, he champions creativity without hierarchy encouraging audiences to experiment, improvise and create boldly with the materials around them.

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