Eco Dyeing Workshop
Tue, 22 Oct
|Woodend Neighbourhood House (Undercroft)
Join local artist Colleen Weste and learn how to create patterns on silk, cotton and paper using plant dyes, eucalypt leaves and other plants from the garden.
Time & Location
22 Oct 2024, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Woodend Neighbourhood House (Undercroft), 47 Forest St, Woodend VIC 3442, Australia
About the Event
What's it all about?
Using plant dyes, eucalypt leaves and other plants from the garde, create stunning patterns on silk, cotton and paper.
Colleen will show you how to get different colours using mordants to fix the dye.
A selection of silk, cotton and watercolour paper will be on offer.
Who will be teaching?
For many years, Colleen Weste has had a fascination with dyeing cloth to create unique, wearable art and wall quilts in silk. She is skilled in handpainting silk, shibori resist dyeing and machine embroidery.
Colleen is the author of a number of books including 'Silk Painting' (published by Penguin) and 'Shibori/Silk Painting (for Art to Wear and Silk Art Quilts)'. She has a Graduate Diploma in Textile Design from RMIT.
Colleen's work has always been inspired by the Australian bush landscape; she looks at nature’s patterns and rhythms from desert tracks to inland land forms. She paints on silk using shibori, and ecodyeing where fabrics are layered, stitched and quilted to convey the mood of a memory, of a place.
In 2006, Colleen opened The Gallery Mt Macedon, an arts collective of twenty six Macedon Ranges artists. Her work is featured at the gallery, as well as at solo and group shows including Paris at the World Shibori Symposium and Shibori shows around Australia and New Zealand.
Term 4 2024 Information
The Eco Dyeing Workshop will run on Tuesday 22nd October between 9.30am - 12.30pm (please note this is a postponement from the previously advertised date in September).
The workshp will take place in the Undercroft of the Woodend Neighbourhood House (access via the gates next to the Skate Park, off Margery Crescent). The cost for the workshop is $70 per person. This fee includes a $20 materials fee which includes a silk scarf, some cotton and paper.
The Workshop will only go ahead if there is the minimum number of participants required to ensure the Woodend Neighbourhood House covers all costs associated with running the Workshop.
Please book by Friday 18th October to assist with this process.