How do we hold emotions in our bodies? If you imagined holding happiness, hopes, fears, or tears in a vessel outside of your body, what might it look like?
Join artist Louise Meuwissen in exploring how we house our emotions, in a workshop celebrating craft-based artmaking as a generative and restorative practice for emotional wellbeing. This workshop celebrates the power of adornment, symbology, and personal expression.
Create your own soft sculpture, in the form of a small, lidded vessel for emotional holding, embellished with recycled vintage and contemporary beads and sequins from Louise’s collection.
In a friendly and relaxed environment, you will be introduced to Louise’s art practice and be guided through hand-sewing construction techniques and the principles of bead embroidery.
Participants will take home a precious object of beauty and sentiment.
Participants with all levels of experience are welcome and encouraged. No prior sewing experience necessary; whatever your perceived sewing skill or creative ability, you will leave with a treasure.
Everything you need to create your piece will be provided, including all materials.
Please feel free to bring your personal sewing kit or any materials of sentiment or significance, you would like to include in your own work, if you would like.
Please note, this is an emotionally gentle workshop, for personal reflection, with no expectation of group sharing.
Morning tea and lunch will be served.
$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, Wan
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