For anyone who lives in the land of Oz, I'll be an Artist-in-Resident at Harvest Textiles in Melbourne in January for a week, working on my local textiles and colour project, where I'll be developing a taxonomy of local Melbourne colours for textiles from native plants.
I've been thinking for a while now about how to continue working with natural dye techniques for textiles, with a project that combines my other interest in the local - how to 'harvest' the knowledge of people who know their local area intimately, in this case the knowledge of indigenous Australian plants and their use as dyes for textiles. I'll be working with the Plant Craft Cottage Group based in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens and will be based at Harvest Tetxiles Workroom, boiling dye baths and drawing plants. I'm also very aware of the knowledge that indigenous Australians based around Melbourne would have had in the past and am going to try to do some research on that too.
Im also running a 2 day workshop called Melbourne Cloth, where we will learn how to dye fabric using hese plants and maybe even some basic printing techniques.
More info here.
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