Join artist Louise Meuwissen to create your own piece of 3d shibori. This workshop celebrates traditional crafting with a contemporary edge.
We will learn the process of 3d shibori, wherein fabric is permanently pressed into expansive shapes and textures.
Immerse yourself in the meditative experience of binding your design, and leave with a chic accessory (your choice of bag or scarf, pre-fabricated by Louise and ready to go), and a new skill that will take your up-cycling game to the next level.
Participants with all levels of experience are welcome and encouraged – no prior textile experience necessary. All materials provided.
Morning tea and lunch will be served.
Please note the images here are indicative of the 3d shibori techniques we will be learning, but these pieces differ slightly to what participants will have time to create on the day. Louise will be sure to share her tips and tricks for making larger works such as these, and you will leave with something practical and gorgeous!
$350aud
Artist Bio:
Louise Meuwissen works with textiles and found materials to make intricate embroidered paintings, sculptures and wearable art – transforming components of costume and dress into objects imbued with uncanny psychological and spiritual resonances. Her work employs DIY methodologies and craft techniques to blend post-consumer materials – high and low – with time, care, and attention. Meuwissen’s practice considers the complex individual and collective relationships we form with objects, and how they come to embody meaning and value; carry energetic, symbolic, and intellectual charge; and become anchors for thoughts and beliefs. Her work is informed by adornment and decoration, and the fluxing of fashion – underpinned by discarding and collecting, the interplay between labour and luxury, and environmental sustainability. Her practice considers the intangible, unknowable, and mortality, informed by eclectic research investigating devotion, the Sublime, hoarding, storytelling and mythology.
Louise Meuwissen specialises in developing and delivering craft-based workshops that celebrate our innate creativity, wholeheartedly believing that making is for everyone. Louise has worked with people of all ages and abilities, in small and large groups, and facilitates spaces that are fun, encouraging, warm and relaxed.She has delivered workshops with institutions such as The NGV, SIGNAL Arts, The Royal Melbourne Show, Craft Victoria, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Kingston Arts, Bunjil Place, and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.
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