Join artist Leanne Thompson and artist and plant scientist Erika Watson for an experimental 4-hr session exploring clay, weaving and pigment decocting.
Learn new skills and techniques drawing from Leanne and Erika’s multi-disciplinary practices. Using wild clay, seeds and foraged materials, participants will build vessels to seed new beginnings, decoct colour from plants and weave assemblages.
Through creative investigation and discussion, this session delves into the possibilities of foraged and harvested materials, and explores the cultural, scientific and intrinsic knowledge held in the relationships between plant, animal, object, and substances.
All materials provided. Includes tea / coffee.
This workshop will take place at Avalon Creative Space.
This session is one in a series of workshops being presented alongside the exhibition, The Art of Adaptation: Culture Changes Everywhere at Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
Kandos School of Cultural Adaption’s The Art of Adaptation: Culture Changes Everywhere Workshop Series:
11 April – Kids Workshop: Mira-Mura Galing Bila with Peter Swain
14 April – Kids Workshop: Seeding Flowering Futures with Erika Watson
16 April – Adult Workshop: Energies in Motion with Silk and Charcoal with Georgina Pollard & Laura Fisher
30 April – Adult Workshop: Experimental Weaving and Shadow-play with Leanne Thompson
8 May – Adult Workshop: Clay, Pigment, Fibre with Leanne Thompson & Erika Watson
Ticketed Event. Bookings Essential.
Image detail: Sculptural Vessels from Clay and Seed Workshop, Candelo, 2025. Courtesy Erika Watson
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