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City of Greater Dandenong
Textiles Celebration
31 July – 31 August 2014
Activities
The Welcome Project
The Shard, Dandenong Civic Square,
225 Lonsdale St Dandenong
Every Monday and Friday in August, 11am – 2pm
Come along and join an exciting community textiles project led by artist Kate
Just. Learn how to knit or develop your knitting skills while you contribute to
a growing artwork as it is made by your local community.
Exhibitions �
Installations
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Wish Ribbon Installation
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Dandenong Civic Square
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 August
An eye-catching art installation in the Civic Square by Sayraphim Lothian
made from ‘wish ribbons’ created by the local community during the Australia
Day Festival in 2014.
Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre
cnr Walker and Robinsons Sts Dandenong
Opening 6.30pm Thursday 31 July
Exhibition continues to Saturday 30 August
Grand Fashion Parade
Dandenong Market
Cleeland Street Dandenong
Sunday 24 August, 12pm and 2pm
An exciting showcase of local fashion and design. Featuring garments
designed and modelled by members of Dandenong’s TWICH, a sewing
collective established and run by South Sudanese women to create traditional
African hand-made clothing inspired by contemporary fashion.
Michele Elliot works with found items of clothing which are then handstitched to create abstract forms. Her works invite the viewer to consider
humanity, displacement and loss.
Photo: Simon Clarke
Kate Just: Giant Knitted Welcome Mat
and Other Works
The Shard, Dandenong Civic Square & Drum Theatre,
cnr Walker and Lonsdale Sts Dandenong
Thursday 31 July – Friday 29 August
Photo: Catherine Evans
Urban Knitting Workshops
Dandenong Civic Centre Community Room,
225 Lonsdale St Dandenong
Thursday 7 and Saturday 9 August
10am – 12.30pm and 1.30pm – 4pm
Bookings essential – phone 8571 5141
Michele Elliot, whitewash, installation view
Site Lines
Learn about the variety of textile arts – knitting, crocheting, embroidery,
dyeing and more – in these fun and interactive workshops for all ages.
Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre
cnr Walker and Robinsons Sts Dandenong
Opening 6.30pm Thursday 31 July
Exhibition continues to Saturday 30 August
Guided by textile artists Margaret Summerton and Robina Summers, create
your own artwork to contribute to a large-scale urban knitting installation
which will adorn the Civic Square during August.
Under the guidance of artist Michelle Hamer, RMIT University architecture
students have hand-stitched their perspective drawings as textile objects in
this unique exhibition.
See the participatory artwork Giant Knitted Welcome Mat at The Shard as it
evolves during Cultural Threads.
Also on display are eye-catching sculptural works by Kate Just at the
Drum Theatre.
Abuk from TWICH Women’s Sewing Collective
Contributing
Artists
Eddy Carroll works with textiles to make soft sculptures and installations.
She researches and uses the language of textiles, costume and adornment to
explore notions of the emotional body. By using craft, sewing and embroidery
techniques to produce her artworks, Carroll’s practice is transformative and
contemplative, re-using thread and haberdashery from the wardrobes of
many women.
eddycarrollwork.blogspot.com
Michele Elliot lives and works in Sydney NSW. She has a Masters of Fine Art
from Monash University. Elliot has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions
since 1990. Local audiences saw her work in Burqas, Veils and Hoodies at
Walker Street Gallery in 2013.
Kate Just, Boundary (LOVE), 2004. Photo: Christian Capurro
Eddy Carroll: Sovereign Unto Oneself
Dandenong Civic Centre Light Boxes
Garnar Lane Dandenong
Monday 11 August – Friday 17 October
Photo: Upfront Pictures
Photo: Marc Morel
Botanical Dyeing and Weaving Workshop
Heritage Hill School House
66 McCrae St Dandenong
Thursday 28 August, 11am – 12.30pm
Bookings essential – phone 9793 4511
Under the guidance of artist Siri Hayes, collect botanicals from the Heritage
Hill gardens (or bring your own from home!), learn dyeing and weaving
processes and help create a large woven rug made from the dyed materials
produced in the workshop.
Visitors to Heritage Hill are also invited to explore Siri Hayes’ studio in the
School House, open to the public every Tuesday in August, 10am – 1pm.
The Night Sky and Other Works:
Community Textile Showcase
Heritage Hill Museum & Historic Gardens
66 McCrae St Dandenong
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 August
These large soft sculptures by textile artist Eddy Carroll are composed of
symbols from traditional wedding and love rituals from around the world.
Drawing inspiration from materials in Dandenong’s Little India, items such
as veils, rings and wedding dress trains are transformed into abstract shapes
made from hand sequinned and handmade embroidered fabric.
This exhibition celebrates the diversity of textile skills within the Greater
Dandenong community.
Photo: Lesley Turnbull
Events
Cultural Threads Opening Event
There are no words / under construction
Indigenous Weaving Workshop
Dandenong Civic Square Big Screen
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 August
Heritage Hill Museum & Historic Gardens
66 McCrae St Dandenong
Tuesday 5 August, 10am – 1pm
Bookings essential – phone 9793 4511
Learn new skills or extend your expertise with the weaving techniques of
twining and coiling with artist Adrienne Kneebone. Complete a juncus-twined
or grass coil basket... it’s your choice!
Participants will also learn about local plant harvesting and the processes
used for preparing fibres.
Michelle Hamer has collaborated with photographer Cat Wilson and
participants from the Southern Migrant & Refugee Centre to create this latest
instalment of her ongoing project, There are no words / under construction.
Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre
cnr Walker and Robinsons Sts Dandenong
6.30pm Thursday 31 July
Join us to celebrate the official opening of Cultural Threads. View exhibitions by
Michele Elliot and Michelle Hamer’s RMIT students, meet the artists and join
us in celebrating all things textiles!
A variety of texts have been collected by the artist from sticky notes,
subject lines and conversation grabs and made into hand-stitched artworks.
Using these, participants created statements which were then captured using
time-lapse photography. This film will form part of a larger project to be
presented at Ararat Regional Gallery in 2015.
Photo: Peter Eve
Urban Knitting Installation
Conversation Circles
Dandenong Civic Square
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 August
Dandenong Library
225 Lonsdale St Dandenong
Wednesday 6, 13, 20 August, 10.30am – 12pm
Come along and join a conversation circle, make new friends and develop
your knitting skills at the same time!
The Civic Square will be transformed by an installation of all-things textiles,
created by the local community during the Urban Knitting Workshops.
Curated by Margaret Summerton and Robina Summers.
www.michellehamer.com
Siri Hayes is a Melbourne-based artist who works with textiles and
photography. She commenced her practice in the late 1990s, and since
that time has held several solo exhibitions including All You Knit is Love,
Centre for Contemporary Photography (2012) and Back to Nature Scene,
Heide Museum of Modern Art (2013). This year her work was included in
Melbourne Now, a major exhibition of contemporary art at the National
Gallery of Victoria.
Kate Just has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across
Australia. Notable recent exhibitions include Just’s solo exhibition Venus Was
Her Name at the Kunsthalle in Krems, a survey of Just’s major knitted works
entitled Kate Just: The Knitted Work 2004 – 2011 at Ararat Regional Gallery,
and her inclusion in the group exhibition Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists
at Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2012.
www.katejust.com
Adrienne Kneebone has spent the past four years in the Northern Territory
learning traditional weaving skills from the Wugularr community in Arnhem
Land. She has been involved in projects which have used traditional weaving
skills as a tool to create connections within communities.
adriennekneebone.com
Sayraphim Lothian is a public artist who creates playful experiences for
people. Her works attempt to inject unexpected and magical moments into
the lives of passers-by. Lothian’s works remind people of the niceness of life
and are present as a reward for those who take the time to stop and look
around them once in a while. These works can be found in streets all around
the world.
sayraphimlothian.com
wildyarnsandstuff.blogspot.com.au
66 McCrae St Dandenong
Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 August
Art and craft lovers are invited to explore the studios of artists involved in
Craft Victoria’s Craft Cubed Festival 2014, including our very own Heritage Hill
Artists-in-Residence Eddy Carroll and Siri Hayes.
Guests are welcome to visit Eddy and Siri in their studios to observe their
practice and discuss their work.
Open
Studios
Photo: Phebe Parisia
Photo: Upfront Pictures
Hamer’s work was included in Melbourne Now, a major exhibition of
contemporary art at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Margaret Summerton and Robina Summers are textile and mixed media
artists. Together they have collaborated on numerous yarn-bombing and
urban knitting installations throughout Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Heritage Hill Museum & Historic Gardens
Open Studio Weekend
Photo: Marc Morel
Michelle Hamer uses hand-stitched pixilation to map the small in-between
moments that characterise everyday life. Often focusing on text and signage
within urban landscapes, her work highlights contemporary social beliefs,
ideals and aspirations.
www.sirihayes.net
Featuring The Night Sky – a major collaborative installation between Heritage
Hill Artist-in-Residence Eddy Carroll and local community group Creative
Connections Through Craft from Wellsprings for Women.
Siri Hayes, Heide Colour Spectrum, 2013. Photo: John Brash
micheleelliot.com
All activities, exhibitions and events are FREE but bookings are
essential for some activities. For more information visit
www.greaterdandenong.com/culturalthreads
Cultural Threads is a satellite event of Craft Victoria’s Craft Cubed
Festival 2014.
Back image: naturally dyed yarn by Siri Hayes
City of Greater Dandenong
Textiles Celebration
31 July – 31 August 2014