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
Enjoy a workshop held in the original Lindsay kitchen, surrounded by the history and atmosphere of this heritage gallery and museum. 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.
Tickets include:
- 2 hour guided Stitched Landscape Brooch workshop with Pippita Bennett
- All materials
- Complimentary tea and coffee
- Entry to the Norman Lindsay Gallery and gardens with guided tour to the artists’ studios included
- Time to explore the gallery at your own pace
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.
