Make a textile artwork with Hannah Gartside
Hannah Gartside’s poetic artworks give form to feeling in her distinct language of cloth. Working across kinetic sculpture, installation and quilt-making, the artist uses found and gifted fabrics, worn clothing and other detritus of the past. Hannah considers her materials as sentient beings, and works to draw their emotive and physical possibilities in her artworks.
Join Hannah for an artist-led workshop responding to her story of Frances, the moth – a tale of metamorphosis and personal transformation. In this session, you are invited to design and make a miniature textile artwork using wire, tulle, thread and sequin dress fabrics.
In discussion with the veil curators Hannah Presley and Bella Hone-Saunders, Hannah will share insights into her artistic practice and guide you through the process. Enjoy the conversation with the artist and other makers while you work on a small sculpture to take home on the day.
Sewing materials will be supplied, with needles and scissors used during the session. The workshop is suitable for ages 12 and above (under-18-year-olds should be accompanied by an adult). No prior sewing knowledge is required to participate, and assistance will be available.
This is a free event, but booking is essential.
Hosted in the gallery, the veil artists workshops offer an opportunity for deeper engagement with the ideas and creative practices behind our current exhibition.
Event Details
Saturday 2 August
11am–12pm and
2–3pm
Tickets available from Monday 14 July, 8.30am
Access
Buxton Contemporary is fully wheelchair accessible. Find detailed information about building access and available resources on our Visit page. Please contact the gallery at buxton-contemporary@unimelb.edu.au or on 03 9035 9339 if you have any questions or would like to request an accommodation.
Hannah Gartside makes sculptures, installations and quilts using found fabric, worn clothing and the material detritus of the past. Looking backwards in order to move forwards, her works harness the potency and intimacy of these worn materials. Gartside’s artworks are both deeply personal and fiercely communal and address our psychological and familial inheritances. In her work she unpicks the way that these legacies (including, more broadly, living under patriarchy and in late-stage capitalism) haunt our experience of being alive. The artworks look for new ways of feeling, as expressed through narrative and visual storytelling and, occasionally, kinetic movement or touch. By employing labour intensive cutting and sewing processes, the works are imbued with tenderness, precision and devotion.
Image: Hannah Gartside. Photography by Christian Capurro.