Go Your Own way with Eira Chidgey
Course Overview
Interested participants can bring an existing “finished” piece of artwork with them and we will explore the possibility of evolving it into something new.
It will challenge people’s idea of the end result, and instead encourage them to focus on the journey, and how work can be expanded further by deconstruction and reassembling. Artworks will be redesigned and pieced back together using stitch (hand stitch or if the work is small scale machine stitch is fine) creating something abstract and completely new. We can then rework back in. Calling into question the need for the square, works may meander, flow, or travel in whichever way they want… Often resulting in interesting and unexpected compositions.
Bring your work (which may be A3 to A5 size) which needs to be 2D but can be any medium, it doesn’t have to be textile, drawings and paintings are also good.
All other materials supplied
Dates: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm 7/8 Sept 2019
Cost: $250 including a delicious morning tea and lunch
Venue: Timeless Textiles Gallery
Morning tea and lunch provided
Teacher Profile
Chidgey, born and raised in England, studied Contemporary Applied Arts at University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. Her work has attempted to celebrate the beauty of the imperfect and the everyday. In this collection of work, traditional textile processes and stitch are manipulated and combined with other materials such as paint, paper and salvaged materials to create mixed media explorations.
Materials List
Bring your work (which may be A3 to A5 size) which needs to be 2D but can be any medium, it doesn’t have to be textile, drawings and paintings are also good.
All other materials will be supplied
Workshop Terms
While our fibre art workshops are usually held in the gallery's historically significant workshop space, the workshop venue may change according to the needs and wishes of the artist tutor. Likewise, the times of the workshops may vary depending on the type of workshop and its presentation.
Timeless Textiles Gallery will, at its own discretion, where a participant is unable to attend a fibre art workshop, an exchange or credit note will be made available or a refund of the deposit or payment in accordance with the following Workshop Refund Policy.
Major commitments must be met, and in fairness to all, the policy concerning the refund is:
Cancellations 3 months prior to workshop date - refund 80% fees paid
Cancellations 2 months prior to workshop date- refund 50% fees paid.
Cancellations 1 month prior to workshop date- no refund.
