Join artist Leanne Thompson and artist and plant scientist Erika Watson for an experimental 4-hr session exploring clay, weaving and pigment decocting.

Learn new skills and techniques drawing from Leanne and Erika’s multi-disciplinary practices. Using wild clay, seeds and foraged materials, participants will build vessels to seed new beginnings, decoct colour from plants and weave assemblages.

Through creative investigation and discussion, this session delves into the possibilities of foraged and harvested materials, and explores the cultural, scientific and intrinsic knowledge held in the relationships between plant, animal, object, and substances. 

All materials provided. Includes tea / coffee.

Participants to bring:
•    Own lunch
•    Apron / suitable clothes, face mask (for compost use)
•    Optional: seeds / flower blossoms from own garden
•    Box / container to take artworks home

This workshop will take place at Avalon Creative Space with a maximum of 15 participants only.

This session is one in a series of workshops being presented alongside the exhibition, The Art of Adaptation: Culture Changes Everywhere at Manly Art Gallery & Museum.

Kandos School of Cultural Adaption’s The Art of Adaptation: Culture Changes Everywhere Workshop Series: