We are inviting women of all ages and backgrounds who live in Colyton and would like to build creative skills to participate.

You will work with artists Jacqueline Olivetti and Matte Roche on zine-making, text and recording sound, with Lucia Scurrah to felting and weave and with Claire Nakazawa to paint. Workshops will take place on Wednesdays from 4 – 7 at Colyton Neighbourhood Centre on the corner of Jensen and Willoughby streets. If you have not been yet, this is behind the Hewitt St (IGA) shops.

For more information please contact Anjali Roberts on 0423 295 001 / 4732 8098 or email aroberts@penrithcity.nsw.gov.au

Come together to design and make a collaborative textile sculpture!

The sculpture – made up of milk crates – will resemble a large stack of falling blocks, or a crumbling castle precariously put together. Each crate is the empty canvas upon which the workshop participants will craft their work.

The artwork is composed of two distinct textile practices which will be explored in two separate workshops: felt and weaving. The front of each block will display, in felt, the different places in Colyton which the workshop participants inhabit in their day to day, emphasising the notion of the sculpture as sort of city, or an abstract representation of Colyton. The sides and back of the blocks will be colourfully and playfully woven-up using up-cycled and recycled materials.

Finally we will put everything together, thus going through all the steps of making up a sculpture from A to Z.

In this workshop milk crates will be transformed into colourful, decorative and playful blocks. The workshop will involve the creative interweaving of an eclectic collection of recycled materials, some perhaps sourced within Colyton. Discussion will revolve around the various objects in our lives, their uses and how they shape us, and include notions of permanence, timelessness and disposability.