With Juanita McLauchlan
Juanita McLauchlan will lead workshop participants through a consideration of Place through natural bush dye methods. Natural materials will be sourced from the grounds of Piccolo Family Farm and processed to pigment fibres.
Registration includes participation in Bush Dye Workshop with Juanita McLauchlan, welcome breakfast, and lunch.
Tickets can also be purchased for the Speaking Place Collaborative Dinner that evening.
Juanita McLauchlan
Juanita McLauchlan draws upon her Gamilaraay identity, history and language to explore family connections in ambitious new works focussing on personal belongings and body adornments.
Trained as printmaker, Juanita McLauchlan now makes enormous contact prints on blankets: they literally mirror back the beauty of Wiradjuri Country. Then she stitches the blankets or cuts them into strips to make necklaces combined with possum-fur, and bound with red thread symbolising connections of blood through generations. Like wool, cotton thread is an introduced European material, but McLauchlan does not deny this inheritance: she celebrates both sides of her family and herself.
The Speaking Place workshops will be delivered by carefully selected, world-class artists and makers at Piccolo Family Farm. The workshops will be centred around the concept of ‘Speaking Place’, and will be delivered across a day of networking among emerging artists of various disciplines, culminating in a collaborative dinner in the Cellar Door and Experience Centre.
Registration includes participation in Bush Dye Workshop with, welcome breakfast, and lunch.
Tickets can also be purchased for the Speaking Place Collaborative Dinner that evening.
8AM – WELCOME BREAKFAST
9AM – WORKSHOPS COMMENCE
12PM – LUNCH AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS
1PM – WORKSHOPS RESUME
4PM – WORKSHOPS END
6.30PM – SPEAKING PLACE COLLABORATIVE DINNER