IRENE PAGRAM | WORKSHOPS
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2 Day | Saturday 15 – Sunday 16 March 2025
COME 'N' TRY ECO-DYE – only 2 places left! This two-day workshop is for beginners and those who have been frustrated with lacklustre results in the past. We’ll use strong achievers in choice of plant material and methods on protein fibres. Printing on small samples of sandwiched layers of recycled woollen blanket, silk and paper, we’ll then stitch back together recycling the wool fibre used to tie up the bundles. All levels |
4 Day | Monday 17 – Thursday 20 March 2025
ART CLOTHS – only 2 places left! This workshop is based on Irene’s practice of making delicate prints as a silk ground for graphite drawing. Exploring garden plants such as red veined sorrel and rose leaves wrapped on copper pipe and cooked in a large copper pot for bright leaf prints and a variety of gum leaves on old railway dog spikes, this will make the deep and mysterious prints that iron brings. The end piece will be a combination of these techniques – graphite drawing on the top layer morphing into a darker print at the bottom. All levels |
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Irene Pagram works with sustainable natural dyes on silk, wool and paper, often to make a ground for drawing, or a base for hand stitching. Irene’s renewed love of textile practice came about when she read India Flint’s Eco-Colour and discovered there was a better way to practice natural dyeing than using the toxic metal powder mordants and salt fixatives she had learned in the past. This led her to take early retirement from her long career in local government arts and culture management to establish a studio-based arts practice in the Otways hinterland.
“My art embeds a personal narrative and a connection between us, our past and our surroundings. I am particularly interested in womens’ work and in the environment. Eco-dyeing repurposed and fair trade fabrics with renewable resources such as gum leaves and garden plants, weed species and vegetable scraps with the dye cauldron as mordant and fixative, sits well with my efforts to live in as sustainable way as possible”
Irene Pagram works with sustainable natural dyes on silk, wool and paper, often to make a ground for drawing, or a base for hand stitching. Irene’s renewed love of textile practice came about when she read India Flint’s Eco-Colour and discovered there was a better way to practice natural dyeing than using the toxic metal powder mordants and salt fixatives she had learned in the past. This led her to take early retirement from her long career in local government arts and culture management to establish a studio-based arts practice in the Otways hinterland.
“My art embeds a personal narrative and a connection between us, our past and our surroundings. I am particularly interested in womens’ work and in the environment. Eco-dyeing repurposed and fair trade fabrics with renewable resources such as gum leaves and garden plants, weed species and vegetable scraps with the dye cauldron as mordant and fixative, sits well with my efforts to live in as sustainable way as possible”
