Conscious Creativity: Design for Stitch
This workshop is fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list send an email to info@fibreswest.com.au
Include the class for which you want to be waitlisted, your full name and mobile number. Our thanks!
Tutor: Sharon Peoples (ACT)
Include the class for which you want to be waitlisted, your full name and mobile number. Our thanks!
Tutor: Sharon Peoples (ACT)
There are three responses to looking at art – yes, no and WOW!
WOW is the one we aim for in this class by using efficient, less wasteful ways to consciously achieve our visions. This workshop is for a broad range of participants: from those experienced in stitch and wanting to delve into a more conscious way of working, to participants who don’t see themselves as ‘embroiderers’ as such but want to use stitch to enhance their work. While it is not a making workshop, making is central. Discussion of stitch will include many techniques that use needles: including knitting, needle lace and machine embroidered lace.
The workshop examines what is design, the design process and design as a problem-solving activity, giving students the skills to build a framework for planning, designing and constructing stitched work. Students will be guided to develop a deep understanding of design through both practical and ‘design thinking’ exercises. They will come to understand where design and stitch fit into the broader artmaking.
We will discuss journals and writing; stumbling blocks; stimulating your visual capacity; the importance of play and purposeful experimentation; the use of apps for design and stitch. We will also explore how technique and material driven work can fit into the design process. We will be digging deep and students will come away with a portfolio of design work ready to be stitched for the next year.
Material Fee: approx. $15
WOW is the one we aim for in this class by using efficient, less wasteful ways to consciously achieve our visions. This workshop is for a broad range of participants: from those experienced in stitch and wanting to delve into a more conscious way of working, to participants who don’t see themselves as ‘embroiderers’ as such but want to use stitch to enhance their work. While it is not a making workshop, making is central. Discussion of stitch will include many techniques that use needles: including knitting, needle lace and machine embroidered lace.
The workshop examines what is design, the design process and design as a problem-solving activity, giving students the skills to build a framework for planning, designing and constructing stitched work. Students will be guided to develop a deep understanding of design through both practical and ‘design thinking’ exercises. They will come to understand where design and stitch fit into the broader artmaking.
We will discuss journals and writing; stumbling blocks; stimulating your visual capacity; the importance of play and purposeful experimentation; the use of apps for design and stitch. We will also explore how technique and material driven work can fit into the design process. We will be digging deep and students will come away with a portfolio of design work ready to be stitched for the next year.
Material Fee: approx. $15
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Bio
Sharon Peoples has worked as an artist in Canberra for over 20 years, exhibiting nationally and internationally as well as taking on commissioned work. Her work has been collected by many national and state institutions, including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Australia and the Parliament House Collection. Sharon holds a Master’s degree and Ph.D. from the Australian National University and has taught as a guest lecturer in the Textiles workshop at Australian National University. Her art practice focuses on textiles, both hand and machine embroidery. In recent years Sharon has been exploring gardens through portraits: the inner secret garden, artists’ gardens and gardens of the imagination. Fragility of both the environment and the human condition is reflected in the medium: oscillating between hand and machine embroidery to examine this state. Website: www.sharon-peoples.com Instagram: @sharonpeoplesstudio |