Saturday 3 May
10 am – 4 pm
Cost: $100/$80 Health Care Card
Gallery 2 @ Wangaratta Art Gallery, 56 Ovens St., Wangaratta
Workshop Description
Have you always been curious about weaving but want a taster first? Then this may be for you!
Let Blake explain and demonstrate the intricacies of the shafted loom and the different weaving structures.
Participants can create their own woven textile piece using a simple frame.
A weaving frame will be ready for you.
Participants are to bring any wearable materials they would like to experiment with – from scrap yarn & cloth, natural fibres or recycled materials.
Artist Bio
Blake Griffiths is a weaver with a research interest in ‘textile thinking’. Griffiths studied advanced weaving at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India. Griffiths uses a floor loom to transform materials and respond to place-specific textile histories. He has worked with museum collections across the country to curate exhibitions in response to environmental catastrophe, resource-extraction and the diverse creative practices and histories of regional and remote Australia.