Material Resonance – Workshops with Michele Grimston

The textiles in your lives tell stories. They're entwined in your everyday lives and hold traces of your daily experiences, memories, hopes, and existence in the world.

Over three weeks, you'll be introduced to a range of textile techniques, including embroidery, quilting, and soft sculpture, to draw out and work with the stories and meaning of your chosen materials.

You can use this material resonance to create artworks infused with personal meaning and value -working with materials that have personal meaning to you and leaning into the histories of recycled textiles to build and develop your unique creative process and expression.

You'll focus on creating an environment that helps you tune in to your own inner creativity in a way that is gentle and offers a contemplative space away from the busyness of everyday life.

During the workshops, you'll be provided with prompts and opportunities to explore each technique. You'll then be supported to develop and use what resonates for you to create your own artwork by the end of the program. Using the materials themselves to scaffold your creative process and build your own creative language, you can turn this into anything your heart desires – 2D or 3D, large or small, working with one technique or combining them in a way that works for you.