Scrappy Stitching: Brooches and Patches with Anna Dunnill

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Waste no more! Learn how to transform fabric scraps and leftover threads into bright, beautiful adornments. Embracing a make-do-and-mend philosophy, this is the perfect time to get creative with repurposed materials. Make a unique piece of textile jewellery, or rejuvenate a favourite garment with a well-placed patch.
 
We will use basic hand-stitching techniques to sew tiny textile collages, which you can turn into brooches, patches, pendants or keyring charms. No sewing experience required!

WHEN: Tuesday 15 April, 1-3PM

WHERE: Meet at the Arts Lab, Level 1, Arts and Cultural Building, Monash Road, Building 159 (MAP), next to the George Paton Gallery. 

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Anna Dunnill is an artist, writer and curator based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her visual art practice uses craft processes to explore devotion and ritual, and ideas of transformation, healing and care.

In 2019 Anna completed a Master of Fine Art by research at the Victorian College of the Arts. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts, and a Bachelor of Humanities (Creative Writing) from Curtin University. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Weaving Lessons (with Chelsea Farquhar, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne, 2024), Things to Think Through (with Chelsea Farquhar, Post Office Projects, Adelaide, 2023), Processing Plant (West Space Window, Melbourne, 2022), New Prayers for Old Feelings (Front/Space, Missouri USA, 2019), A kind of collective breathing (FELTspace, Adelaide, 2018), Skin Rituals (Blindside, Melbourne, 2018), and To pierce, to puncture (Verge Gallery, Sydney, 2017).

In 2024 Anna’s piece Gleanings (self portrait) was awarded the major prize (the Kate Derum Award) in the Kate Derum + Irene Davies International Tapestry Awards, a non-acquisitive biennial prize held at the Australian Tapestry Workshop.