LIZ WILLIAMSON | WORKSHOPS
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6 Day | Saturday 18 – Thursday 23 March 2023
DESIGNING AND WEAVING NEW STORIES
Designing and weaving new stories will focus on creating concepts, realising ideas and developing narratives that are contemporary, innovative and relevant to each weaver.
Woven stories can reference your experiences, surroundings, place and time; your community, culture and environment: all can be a source for new ideas and designs. As a handweaver, you decide the narrative, the materials, colours, patterns, textures and structures. The range of concepts is as diverse as your imagination.
Woven outcomes can be functional, non-functional, cloth, installations or purely experimental. The workshop will involve discussions, challenges to assist in defining your story, ways of translating ideas, selecting materials and weaving. Weave structures could be plain weave, twills, double weave, patterned or any variation that is appropriate for your own, new woven story. Intermediate/advanced
DESIGNING AND WEAVING NEW STORIES
Designing and weaving new stories will focus on creating concepts, realising ideas and developing narratives that are contemporary, innovative and relevant to each weaver.
Woven stories can reference your experiences, surroundings, place and time; your community, culture and environment: all can be a source for new ideas and designs. As a handweaver, you decide the narrative, the materials, colours, patterns, textures and structures. The range of concepts is as diverse as your imagination.
Woven outcomes can be functional, non-functional, cloth, installations or purely experimental. The workshop will involve discussions, challenges to assist in defining your story, ways of translating ideas, selecting materials and weaving. Weave structures could be plain weave, twills, double weave, patterned or any variation that is appropriate for your own, new woven story. Intermediate/advanced
LIZ WILLIAMSON
Website www.lizwilliamson.com.au
Instagram @lizwilliamsonweaver
Liz has been weaving since the late 1970’s with innovative and diverse outcomes: designing for industry; weaving for exhibitions, commissions and production in her Sydney studio; teaching nationally and internationally; curating exhibitions; and engaging with artisan groups in India and organizing ‘Cultural Textiles’ tours to India. Liz’s practice was acknowledged in 2008 with a national award exhibition and publication. At the heart of her practice, is an interest in innovative, experimental and unusual designs created at the loom. Liz has been an educator since 1991 and is an Honorary Associate Professor at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW, Sydney.
Instagram @lizwilliamsonweaver
Liz has been weaving since the late 1970’s with innovative and diverse outcomes: designing for industry; weaving for exhibitions, commissions and production in her Sydney studio; teaching nationally and internationally; curating exhibitions; and engaging with artisan groups in India and organizing ‘Cultural Textiles’ tours to India. Liz’s practice was acknowledged in 2008 with a national award exhibition and publication. At the heart of her practice, is an interest in innovative, experimental and unusual designs created at the loom. Liz has been an educator since 1991 and is an Honorary Associate Professor at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW, Sydney.
