4 DAY WORKSHOPS MONDAY 18 - THURSDAY 21 MARCH 2019
FABRIC PICTURE QUILT Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Ro Bruhn
Turn your favourite photo into a picture quilt. This could be a photo from travels, a special place etc. Building up with layers of fabric to create dimension, perspective and interest, using a very wide range of textile related materials. These will be hand stitched down (or machined if you prefer). Using threads, beads, buttons and found objects etc.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
LAYERS FOR STITCH Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Mahdi Chandler
Draw, print, design, collage & stitch. Explore the foundations of drawing, design and mark making to create mixed media 2D works on canvas, building layer upon layer of texture and colour. This surface will become the catalyst for exploring a range of experimental and intuitive hand stitching.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
DIMENSIONAL COLLAGE
Tutor: Jan Clark
Experimenting with various substrates (tulle, canvas, paper) and mixed textiles we will make images from flat to 3D that can be embedded into larger work, or not. Using the theme of birds and/or insects, many different techniques will be explored using the sewing machine to create 3-dimensional works. Individual exploration is encouraged.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
LAYERS UPON LAYERS OF UNSTRUCTURED GARMENTS Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Teresa Dair
Learn how easy it is to make unstructured garments with just an overlocker. In this workshop you will learn how easy it is to make fashionable garments for your layering wardrobe with easy, no fuss patterns. There will be a collection of pants, tops, layering dresses - you will complete a new season’s wardrobe by day 4. Overlocker and basic sewing knowledge is required.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
BIG INK: SURFACE DESIGN + GARMENT CONSTRUCTION Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Fiona Duthie
Creating bold dramatic surfaces on felted garments that engage the wearer and the viewer. This is design that celebrates life and movement! We explore sumi-e ink drawing on silks fabrics for depth and line. Seamless garment design will be covered, encompassing colour, form and fit, plus using resist additions for additional shaping and fit. Expect to make either a dress, vest, tunic, skirt or short jacket.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
BOJAGI - IT’S ABOUT SEAMS!! Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Philomena Hali
Bojagi - what is it!!! Bojagi is a Korean wrapping cloth for weddings, gifts, food, and decoration. Bojagi involves fabric piecing, using traditional hand sewn seam techniques. Seams become a feature of the finished work. Traditionally this is done by hand - it can also be done by machine. Various traditional Korean embellishments will also be shown. A passion for hand sewing will go a long way.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
TEXTURED NUNO-FELT AND NATURAL DYES Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Pam Hovel
Felt a sleeveless top incorporating fabric manipulation techniques such as ruching and flowers. This will be a lightweight felted garment suitable for warmer climates. Then dye your garment a plain colour using natural dye extracts or the botanical-print method or a combination of the two. While we are waiting for the dye pot to do it’s magic we may make samples of other fabric manipulation techniques. Some felting experience an advantage.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
FELTED FITTED DRESS Only 2 place left
Tutor: May Jacobsen Hvistendahl
Design your felted dress so that it fits and flatters and, in so doing, plan for the construction of a plastic pattern that will be the right size and quality for your dress. We will use the fibre direction when we lay out the wool and end up with a dress in our right size, in our own style.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
COIL IT: TWINE IT: KNOT IT! Only 1 place left
Tutor: Anna Lizotte
Experiment with coiling, twining and knotting: basketry techniques which, once learned, can be applied to jewellery, mixed media, textile arts, basketry and more. Explore the possibilities of these processes, using them to create texture and incorporate found items. Work over or around an object, create a basket, make a wearable piece or combine the processes to create something totally individual, using just your hands and found materials.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
MARKING TIME: ART, IMAGERY AND STITCH Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Sandra Meech
Exploring place and memory with a personal theme through observation, imagery and writings. Photos, (painted black and white photocopies), acrylic paintings, marks and sketches will be incorporated in mixed media collages that are printed and heat transferred onto fabric. Several pieces will explore different techniques using wire form dimension, mono printing, wools and scrims, then finished with machine and hand stitch. Intermediate - free machine sewing skills advisable.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
PAPER SHIBORI - INDIGO AND COLOUR Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Liz Powell
Investigate indigo and paper combined with colour from other mediums, over-dyeing and intensifying colour, adding rust and water colour, applying resists, pole wrapping, binding, folding, stitching, using rice paste, wax, gesso and metallic gouache with a great variety of papers. Surface finishes will be explored, with options to stitch results into quilts/sampler books /Japanese albums using original and traditional patterns.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
PRINTING FOR TEXTURE
Tutor: Angharad Rixon
Print techniques that change the feel of the cloth. Experiment with the idea of printing a texture rather than a 2D image on fabric. Techniques include devoré, flock, shrinking and hardening polymers, as well as controlled and resist shrinkage to see and feel the effect which they have on different types of textiles. This workshop will suit artists who wish to work through the process of designing a collection around a theme.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
INSPIRED BY THE ENVIRONMENT
Tutor: Shona Skinner
Working with water soluble fabrics and free machine embroidery you are going to be creating individual pieces that can then be placed together to create a sculptural collage. The work really holds its shape after it has been soaked to dissolve the water soluble fabric. The wonderful surroundings of Halls Gap will give you endless inspiration!
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
SMALL SCATTERINGS Only 2 places left
Tutor: Carolyn Sullivan
This is a hand stitching class making contemporary embroideries. Large, bold stitches overstitched with more stitches will be laid over a base made with an embellishing machine. Some design techniques will be considered. Basic tuition in the use of an embellishing machine will be covered, although ownership of an embellishing machine is not a requirement.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
WEAVING MATTER: MATERIALS, FORM AND CONTEXT
Tutor: Liz Williamson
This workshop explores materials, challenging what we think of as appropriate for weaving. Many materials are considered suitable for weaving, but experimenting with those that are not will expand an understanding of what can be woven and used to create a structure, surface, shape or form. What these materials are, their context and association, can re-contextualize both matter and weaving.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
SCULPTURAL EMBROIDERY Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Meredith Woolnough
Freehand machine embroidery and resin embedding. In this workshop we explore freehand machine embroidery to create a range of experimental embroidered sculptures. Using water-soluble fabrics as a temporary surface, we will explore different ways to draw, assemble and sculpt embroidered forms to create unique structures. We will then mould and shape our embroideries into freestanding sculptures or embed the pieces into resin blocks.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
FABRIC PICTURE QUILT Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Ro Bruhn
Turn your favourite photo into a picture quilt. This could be a photo from travels, a special place etc. Building up with layers of fabric to create dimension, perspective and interest, using a very wide range of textile related materials. These will be hand stitched down (or machined if you prefer). Using threads, beads, buttons and found objects etc.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
LAYERS FOR STITCH Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Mahdi Chandler
Draw, print, design, collage & stitch. Explore the foundations of drawing, design and mark making to create mixed media 2D works on canvas, building layer upon layer of texture and colour. This surface will become the catalyst for exploring a range of experimental and intuitive hand stitching.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
DIMENSIONAL COLLAGE
Tutor: Jan Clark
Experimenting with various substrates (tulle, canvas, paper) and mixed textiles we will make images from flat to 3D that can be embedded into larger work, or not. Using the theme of birds and/or insects, many different techniques will be explored using the sewing machine to create 3-dimensional works. Individual exploration is encouraged.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
LAYERS UPON LAYERS OF UNSTRUCTURED GARMENTS Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Teresa Dair
Learn how easy it is to make unstructured garments with just an overlocker. In this workshop you will learn how easy it is to make fashionable garments for your layering wardrobe with easy, no fuss patterns. There will be a collection of pants, tops, layering dresses - you will complete a new season’s wardrobe by day 4. Overlocker and basic sewing knowledge is required.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
BIG INK: SURFACE DESIGN + GARMENT CONSTRUCTION Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Fiona Duthie
Creating bold dramatic surfaces on felted garments that engage the wearer and the viewer. This is design that celebrates life and movement! We explore sumi-e ink drawing on silks fabrics for depth and line. Seamless garment design will be covered, encompassing colour, form and fit, plus using resist additions for additional shaping and fit. Expect to make either a dress, vest, tunic, skirt or short jacket.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
BOJAGI - IT’S ABOUT SEAMS!! Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Philomena Hali
Bojagi - what is it!!! Bojagi is a Korean wrapping cloth for weddings, gifts, food, and decoration. Bojagi involves fabric piecing, using traditional hand sewn seam techniques. Seams become a feature of the finished work. Traditionally this is done by hand - it can also be done by machine. Various traditional Korean embellishments will also be shown. A passion for hand sewing will go a long way.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
TEXTURED NUNO-FELT AND NATURAL DYES Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Pam Hovel
Felt a sleeveless top incorporating fabric manipulation techniques such as ruching and flowers. This will be a lightweight felted garment suitable for warmer climates. Then dye your garment a plain colour using natural dye extracts or the botanical-print method or a combination of the two. While we are waiting for the dye pot to do it’s magic we may make samples of other fabric manipulation techniques. Some felting experience an advantage.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
FELTED FITTED DRESS Only 2 place left
Tutor: May Jacobsen Hvistendahl
Design your felted dress so that it fits and flatters and, in so doing, plan for the construction of a plastic pattern that will be the right size and quality for your dress. We will use the fibre direction when we lay out the wool and end up with a dress in our right size, in our own style.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
COIL IT: TWINE IT: KNOT IT! Only 1 place left
Tutor: Anna Lizotte
Experiment with coiling, twining and knotting: basketry techniques which, once learned, can be applied to jewellery, mixed media, textile arts, basketry and more. Explore the possibilities of these processes, using them to create texture and incorporate found items. Work over or around an object, create a basket, make a wearable piece or combine the processes to create something totally individual, using just your hands and found materials.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
MARKING TIME: ART, IMAGERY AND STITCH Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Sandra Meech
Exploring place and memory with a personal theme through observation, imagery and writings. Photos, (painted black and white photocopies), acrylic paintings, marks and sketches will be incorporated in mixed media collages that are printed and heat transferred onto fabric. Several pieces will explore different techniques using wire form dimension, mono printing, wools and scrims, then finished with machine and hand stitch. Intermediate - free machine sewing skills advisable.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
PAPER SHIBORI - INDIGO AND COLOUR Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Liz Powell
Investigate indigo and paper combined with colour from other mediums, over-dyeing and intensifying colour, adding rust and water colour, applying resists, pole wrapping, binding, folding, stitching, using rice paste, wax, gesso and metallic gouache with a great variety of papers. Surface finishes will be explored, with options to stitch results into quilts/sampler books /Japanese albums using original and traditional patterns.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
PRINTING FOR TEXTURE
Tutor: Angharad Rixon
Print techniques that change the feel of the cloth. Experiment with the idea of printing a texture rather than a 2D image on fabric. Techniques include devoré, flock, shrinking and hardening polymers, as well as controlled and resist shrinkage to see and feel the effect which they have on different types of textiles. This workshop will suit artists who wish to work through the process of designing a collection around a theme.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
INSPIRED BY THE ENVIRONMENT
Tutor: Shona Skinner
Working with water soluble fabrics and free machine embroidery you are going to be creating individual pieces that can then be placed together to create a sculptural collage. The work really holds its shape after it has been soaked to dissolve the water soluble fabric. The wonderful surroundings of Halls Gap will give you endless inspiration!
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
SMALL SCATTERINGS Only 2 places left
Tutor: Carolyn Sullivan
This is a hand stitching class making contemporary embroideries. Large, bold stitches overstitched with more stitches will be laid over a base made with an embellishing machine. Some design techniques will be considered. Basic tuition in the use of an embellishing machine will be covered, although ownership of an embellishing machine is not a requirement.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
WEAVING MATTER: MATERIALS, FORM AND CONTEXT
Tutor: Liz Williamson
This workshop explores materials, challenging what we think of as appropriate for weaving. Many materials are considered suitable for weaving, but experimenting with those that are not will expand an understanding of what can be woven and used to create a structure, surface, shape or form. What these materials are, their context and association, can re-contextualize both matter and weaving.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
SCULPTURAL EMBROIDERY Workshop full waiting list being taken
Tutor: Meredith Woolnough
Freehand machine embroidery and resin embedding. In this workshop we explore freehand machine embroidery to create a range of experimental embroidered sculptures. Using water-soluble fabrics as a temporary surface, we will explore different ways to draw, assemble and sculpt embroidered forms to create unique structures. We will then mould and shape our embroideries into freestanding sculptures or embed the pieces into resin blocks.
Click here to download the Student Requirements List
