Create your own soft sculpture in this workshop celebrating craft based artmaking with artist Louise Meuwissen.

Join artist Louise Meuwissen to create your own embellished wearable work of art. This workshop celebrates the power of adornment, symbology, and personal expression.

In a friendly and relaxed environment, you will be guided in the creation of your design and learn bead embroidery techniques to create your own wearable art piece, using recycled vintage and contemporary materials from Louise’s collection.

Participants with all levels of experience are welcome and encouraged – no prior sewing experience necessary. All materials provided.

This public program celebrates the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2023.

About the Artist

Louise Meuwissen works with textiles and found materials to make intricate embroidered paintings, sculptures and wearable art – transforming components of costume and dress into objects imbued with uncanny psychological and spiritual resonances. Her work employs DIY methodologies and craft techniques to blend post-consumer materials – high and low – with time, care, and attention. Meuwissen’s practice considers the complex individual and collective relationships we form with objects, and how they come to embody meaning and value; carry energetic, symbolic, and intellectual charge; and become anchors for thoughts and beliefs.  Her work is informed by adornment and decoration, and the fluxing of fashion –  underpinned by discarding and collecting, the interplay between labour and luxury, and environmental sustainability. Her practice considers the intangible, unknowable, and mortality, informed by eclectic research investigating devotion, the Sublime, hoarding, storytelling and mythology.