Workshop Smithing and Soldering #1
22 May 2026
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Craft your own brass candlestick, guided by goldsmith Zora Lopes Cardozo.
Have you always wanted to learn how to work with metal and apply different soldering techniques? Join our workshop and, under the guidance of goldsmith Zora Lopes Cardozo, make your own brass candlestick. During the workshop you will learn step by step how to work with brass and discover different ways of soldering. You will practise, among other things, working with a blowtorch, soldering a ring, joining larger components, and making four precise solder joints for the candlestick’s legs. You will also learn how to prepare solder joints and carefully finish your piece. At the end of the workshop, you will go home with your own handmade candlestick.
Who is it for?
The workshop is conducted in Dutch. It is suitable for adults.
The workshop is part of the public programme accompanying the exhibition Jesse Darling: Godsworth. This exhibition centres on the question of what we consider to be valuable. During the workshop, you will build something from scratch out of raw materials, just as the artist does. Perhaps the value lies in learning a new technique. Perhaps it is an object that brings light to your next dinner party. Or perhaps it is a unique object that only you own, in a world of mass production.
About the exhibition
The British artist Jesse Darling (1981) works with everyday objects and found materials that have already had a life of their own. Discarded furniture, metal parts and broken appliances reappear in his work in new constellations, which he prefers to keep developing further. For Darling, a work of art is never really finished. With his installation Godsworth, he transforms the church space into a landscape built from rubble, construction waste from Amsterdam, scrap metal and other materials he has collected in the city. Darling’s work presents a world that is unstable, fragile, changing and unfinished, and raises the question of what connects people when familiar structures begin to falter.
