When: Saturday 27th February

Time: 11 am – 2 pm

Duration: 3 hours

Where: artisan, 45 King St Bowen Hills

Cost: $110

Skill level: Suitable for all adults, no prior knowledge necessary

About the workshop:

Join Brisbane textile artist, Emma Gardner for an engaging workshop where you’ll be introduced to the mesmorising world of cyanotype. You’ll use repurposed thrifted costume jewellery as you create unique and beautiful textile compositions to use in your home.

You’ll be guided by the expertise of a skilled and passionate maker who will help you through the creation of 2 finished items, one created with wet cyanotype technique and one with dry, as well as a practice piece to learn about and explore UV exposure. Patchworked thrifted cotton materials will be supplied for you to use to create your own cyanotype tote bag, table runner, jacket patch or wall hanging.

Included in workshop ticket:

o 2 items of textiles and one practice piece with your own cyanotype to take home

o All tools, materials and safety equipment are provided

o Light refreshments

What to bring:

o Please wear closed shoes and old clothes that can get messy. Aprons will be provided.

About Emma Gardner:

Working with an inter-disciplinary approach to her arts practice, Emma Gardner crosses between installation, performance and collaboration, yet the underlying method is always drawing. She uses process driven, laborious techniques - like cyanotype – in her experimentation with a variety of up-cycled textiles.

Her work is motivated from a curiosity about the human condition and the absurdities of life; the expectations, performed duties, constructed narratives and cultural stigmas. Emma uses drawing to question the inherent implications of moral, ethics, gender and class politics that are present when the body is thrown into any subject matter.

Emma undertook a residency in India in 2018 and in South Africa in 2019 and her touring exhibition Wildish featuring folkloric narratives rendered in large scale cyanotypes is on display at the Lismore Regional Art Gallery until 28th February.

IMAGE: Jewellery Cyanotypes 2021 photo courtesty of artist

COVID-Safe Policy:

Please be assured artisan has well considered COVID-safe protocols regarding our workshop programming. You will be offered socially distanced seating, access to your own PPE sanitation options at your workspace and a large extremely well ventilated workshop venue. If you have any queries, please contact workshop@artisan.org.au.

Workshop Cancellation Policy:

Please note this workshop can be cancelled by artisan due to unforeseen circumstances or if minimum numbers are not reached. In this event participants will be refunded accordingly and as soon as possible.

Participant Cancellation Policy:

Workshops have limited spaces and involve preparation by the facilitator.

Bookings cancelled up to one week prior to the start of the workshop may be refunded, but a 20% non-refundable administration fee will be deducted.

Bookings cancelled within a week of the workshop commencing will NOT be refunded.

You are welcome to transfer your booking to another person prior to the workshop commencing. Please confirm this arrangement in writing to workshop@artisan.org.au.