Weaving with Aunty Bronwyn Razem Workshop

Join Aunty Bronwyn Razem in a workshop gathering where she shares her skills and techniques to make your own Bush Animal sculpture from weaving rafia, hay and wool materials or woven Meeting Place necklace design. All materials provided within the workshop fee.

Share in a gentle four hours of hand-creating and make a colourful bush animal, such as a dingo, bush dog, wombat, echidna, kangaroo using hay, wool and rafia and your hands and/or a woven Meeting Place necklace design using plant fibre.

Meet, weave and make with Aunty Bronwyn Razem. Utilising plant fibres to create nurtures our connection with the environment whilst learning new cultural skills in a connected space.

With a current exhibition WOVEN STORIES, GUNDITJMARA KIRRAE WHURRONG ARTIST at Eagles Nest Fine Art Gallery, Aunty Bronwyn is offering a weaving workshop to share culture and her weaving and making skills that are intertwined and incorporated deep in her arts practice.

Aunty Bronwyn was born in Gunditjmara Country, Warrnambool and comes from a long lineage of Traditional weavers. Bronwyn learned from her grandmother Georgina and mother Zelda Couzens.

Through her work, Bronwyn acknowledges the importance of maintaining the cultural knowledge behind the weaving and the role this played in times past. Teaching traditional weaving techniques asserts the strength of this cultural practice that was utilised for every day life.

Bronwyn's workshops make an important contribution to reconnecting First Nations people with their culture and strengthening their identities, as well as bringing forth awareness and cultural values of First Nations people to the general public and educational institutions.

NUMBERS

A great workshop as solo and in friendship groups. Is suitable for young people aged six years with assistance from an adult and all ages above.

Minimum numbers of 15 are required for this workshop to go ahead. Tickets will be refunded (minus the small booking fee) if numbers aren’t reached one week before the event.

LOCATION

The location will be in beautiful Aireys Inlet. The day shall commence at the Eagles Nest Fine Art Gallery, and weather dependant, the workshop shall occur nearby in a suitable garden location or on site. Registered attendees shall be updated of the location and are assured of its accessibility and suitability.

WHAT TO BRING

A drink bottle

Clothing suitable for the days weather

Comfortable clothing

WORKSHOP SHALL RUN UNTIL 2PM - 2.30PM TO SUIT ATTENDEES.

AUNTY BRONWYN RAZEM

Bronwyn has played a vital role in the revival of the Traditional eel trap. In 2013, her eel trap with emu feathers granted her the Acquisitive Award in the Victorian Indigenous Arts Awards.

The National Museum Australia in Canberra as well as the Art Gallery of Ballarat have curated her eel traps for their permanent collections.

As a representative of Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini's—some of Victoria's most prominent Indigenous female artists—Bronwyn was selected to attend the Festival of Pacific Arts in 2016.

A highlight in Bronwyn’s career marked exhibiting with two of her eel traps alongside artists such as Vicki Couzens, Glenda Nicholls and Maree Clarke—who she had looked up to all her life—in the 2017 Sovereignty exhibition at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne.

You can find out more about Bronwyn by going to her website https://www.mirrnongminnie.com.au/