Set in the Norman Lindsay Gallery etching studio, join artist Pippita Bennett to learn a range of stitching techniques and create your own bespoke textile brooch from hand-dyed fabric
In this workshop, you’ll learn a variety of stitching techniques and leave with your own sample swatch for future reference. Guided by Pippita, you’ll also explore how creative mindfulness can help nourish and sustain your practice.
This program is open to adult participants only.
Tickets include two-hour workshop, entry to the Norman Lindsay Gallery and grounds, and complimentary tea and coffee.
About the tutor
Pippita Bennett’s practice is grounded in her home on Dharug and Gundungurra Country. Working with hand-dyed threads and textiles, she uses leaves, bark and flowers gathered from her surroundings and the wild places she travels, alongside thrifted materials that carry traces of their past lives. These fabrics are imbued with memory – of place, process and use.
Pippita works across domestic and outdoor settings, allowing stitching to follow the contours of branches, rocks and thoughts. Her stitches operate as a visual language, recording place and time as layered landscapes of memory. She studied art at the Tin Sheds for her architecture degree and is currently undertaking a Master of Art Therapy.
