Join artist Louise Meuwissen in a workshop celebrating craft-based artmaking as a generative and restorative practice for emotional wellbeing. This workshop celebrates the power of adornment, symbology, and personal expression.
Create your own soft sculpture, in the form of a small, lidded vessel for emotional holding, embellished with recycled vintage and contemporary beads and sequins from Louise’s collection.
In a friendly and relaxed environment, you will be guided through hand-sewing construction techniques and the principles of bead embroidery. Participants with all levels of experience are welcome and encouraged – no prior sewing experience necessary. This is an emotionally gentle workshop, for personal reflection, with no expectation of group sharing. All materials provided. (Please feel welcome to bring along any materials of significance or sentiment you would like to include in your own work).
Date/ Time
Saturday, 15 November | 11am- 3pm
Cost
General admission: $30 + booking fee
Blaktix: $20 + booking fee
About the Facilitator
Louise Meuwissen works with textiles and found materials to make intricate embroidered paintings, sculptures and wearable art – transforming components of costume and dress into objects imbued with uncanny psychological and spiritual resonances. Her work employs DIY methodologies and craft techniques to blend post-consumer materials – high and low – with time, care, and attention. Meuwissen’s practice considers the complex individual and collective relationships we form with objects, and how they come to embody meaning and value; carry energetic, symbolic, and intellectual charge; and become anchors for thoughts and beliefs. Her work is informed by adornment and decoration, and the fluxing of fashion – underpinned by discarding and collecting, the interplay between labour and luxury, and environmental sustainability. Her practice considers the intangible, unknowable, and mortality, informed by eclectic research investigating devotion, the Sublime, hoarding, storytelling and mythology.
Instagram: @louisemeuwissen
Join us in the Café!
Our Café is open, offering a variety of light refreshments including pastries, soup, scones, cakes and coffee. It is open from 11am-3pm and the perfect place to grab a bite after your class.
Bundoora Homestead would like to offer workshop participants a $10 coffee + scone special at our café as part of this program. Show your ticket at the café counter to redeem this offer.
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Image credits: Louise Meuwissen, A vessel for my worry and fears 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
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