Workshops
5-day workshops
(Tuesday 21st to Saturday 25th) Price $495 (Includes GST)
Alan Waters - "The Essential Ingredient. Ideas with Watercolours"
This course is directed to people who already have some competency in handling watercolours and who are interested in looking at their subjects from an entirely new perspective.
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Anne van der Kley - No Hassles Tassels and Braids... Passamenterie with Personality
Bring your overlocker for work that seems more like play, as you stitch to enrich your textile vocabulary. This class is designed for creation of a different type of simple overlocker cord each morning, resulting in the creation of unique personalized passamenterie tassels or braids each afternoon.
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Barbara Schey - Shibori Now!
Students may work on silk, pure cotton, polyester or handmade paper. They will explore many different techniques and produce work suitable for everything from patchwork, through fashion, to bookbinding. Discharge, meltoff and degum may sound strange to beginners, however students will become familiar with these terms by the end of the course.
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Catherine O'Leary - Making a felted body wrap
You will be learning to make pieces of nuno felt by combining merino wool tops and tissue silk. These are then assembled in Catherine's unique way to make a garment that will be one-of-a-kind.
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Claire Brach - Meddling with metals
Focusing on incorporating thin metal shim, metal mesh and wire into our artworks we will cut, stitch, manipulate, emboss and heat brass, copper and aluminium shim to add focal interest. We will also cover layering, metal and wire weaving, coiling and various colouring techniques including painting, wax rubbing and alcohol ink staining.
Using a firm background we will apply fabrics and metals to produce a project suitable for a wall hanging, covered box lid, journal cover, bag feature, or even wearable adornments. Some hand embroidery will also be featured. Don't be daunted, this will be a fun class!!
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Don Hildred - From B&W photography to Digital Colour
In this workshop Don will be taking you through the evolution of photography - from B&W techniques to digital colour processes. You will start the week in the darkroom and end it in the design studio, learning about every step along the way. So let your inner photographer out for a week of exploration and fun.
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Kathryn Wardill - making glass beads
Adventure into the world of HOT GLASS! Create one-off glass beads, miniature artworks that others will marvel at. Teaching the basics of glass bead making, the tutor thoroughly explains all aspects of the process, no experience is necessary other than to work with your hands on a small scale. Students need good eyesight and the steady use of both hands.
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Kay Faulkner - Building Blocks (Weaving)
Explore the potential of block designs. The ability to understand and create block designs is a great starting point for the freedom to create one's own weaving patterns. Once the potential of block designs or profile drafts are understood, the weaver has the ability to then interpret these into whatever structure they choose.
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Keith lo Bue - Precious Little: Poetics of the Found Object
The materials we use for creative expression can be found literally at our feet.
Join noted American art jeweller Keith Lo Bue on an energetic exploration of unusual and unexpected materials in jewellery making.
Through hands-on projects and thought-provoking instruction, students will learn the varied methods of selection and assembly this limitless palette demands. No previous jewellery or sculpture experience is required; all that's needed is enthusiasm and the desire to work with your hands.
Whatever your present focus or skill level, you will come away with new insights into the possibilities of your surroundings!
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Lorraine Brown - Leather Bound (books and boxes)
In this class you will be making leather bound books and book cloth boxes. The workshop will include sewing a book, making your own endpapers, rounding and backing, paring leather, making a strop, covering in leather on 5 raised bands and some finishing - eg titling.
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Nicholas Jones - "Reimagining the book"
In this class you will be starting with a number of hardcover books and altering them in imaginative ways to produce sculptural works.
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Noela Mills - Digital Design
This workshop explores computer design options using digital cameras and easy photo editing programmes. Learn how to manipulate your own photos by cropping, changing colour, distorting and more, to create bold new abstract designs and then turn them into textile art.
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2-day workshops
(Friday 24th and Saturday 25th) Price $176 (includes GST)
Tricia Smout - designing with letters
Give a new twist to your artwork! In this workshop you will be shown a range of different techniques for creating innovative designs based on letters, words, symbols or numbers. You will create several unique patterns which are then ready to use later in your future projects. You can choose whether your message is very legible or more abstract, and we will discuss how to transfer the designs into your chosen medium (applique, embroidery, clay, paper, tapestry, knitting, crochet, weaving, silk painting, etc). No previous training in calligraphy or lettering is necessary, just the desire to express yourself creatively using letterforms!
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Lesa Hepburn - Hand Papermaking Dimensions
Join Lesa to experience the pleasure of the vat and the exploration of new identities. You'll be hand papermaking from waste cotton rag pulp to create new visual identities in 2 & 3 dimensional forms ie artist books & vessels. Bring items such as old love letters or divorce documents which you may enjoy pulping, and of course your humour. You'll also be learning the process of laminating & embedding into the surface of the paper using a variation of cotton/silk threads , string, fabric offcuts old prints or memorabilia.
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1-day workshops
(Friday 24th only) Price $99 (includes GST)
Wendy Bailye - "Tree Of Life" Wall Hanging
A one day creative journey with Wendy Bailye exploring surface decoration on handmade felt. This culminates in the creation of your own unique, symbolic tree of life wall hanging. Learn a myriad of felting techniques using a wide variety of materials. Suitable for beginners to advanced felt makers.
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(Saturday 25th only) Price $99 (includes GST)
Rebecca Lewis - Upcycling 101
Come to the class with a selection of garments that you've bought from an OP shop or that aren't "quite right" and be prepared to convert them into something more wearable by altering them and adding prints and other embellishments. Consider using sheets and tablecloths in new and creative ways and look sideways at old jeans and consider giving them a new life.
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Jude Skeers - Mobius knitting
Spend the day with Jude, learning how to knit a Mobius shawl
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Sandra Pearce - Monoprinting
In this workshop, you will explore an exciting monotype technique using plants, stencils and other found materials to create one-of-a-kind and often unexpected images. This is a spontaneous and creative form of printmaking, without the lengthy and technical processes of other printmaking techniques.
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Shelley McDonald - Mixed Media 101
Ever wanted to try Mixed media art making?? Well in this one day workshop, you will create a unique art piece using a whole range of techniques for a true mixed media masterpiece! Utilising elements of many mediums such as collage, wire, paint and found objects you will play with paint glue and plater, and learn to embellish with all kinds of bits and pieces!! If you have never created artwork before - it won't matter!! Perfect for the beginner or those wanting to develop their art skills into new and exciting territory!!!
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Wendy Sonnenberg - Basket Making
Wendy will be bringing along the materials and know-how for ingeniously creating practical baskets to take home and use.
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Wendy Bailye - The Big Techno Cover-Up
An inspiring one day class with Wendy Bailye suitable for beginners-advanced felt makers. In this class you will learn to make 3D all in one forms around a resist, which will then be embellished using fibres and fabrics. Felt yourself a funky laptop bag OR three smaller pouches to fit mobile phone, iPod, digital camera or glasses. Pouches can also be used for jewellery and gifts and the laptop bag can also be a satchel.
