winterWorks

'winterworks', originally planned as a symposium focussing on sustainability in textile practice; took place last week

a rather less grand event than earlier anticipated, but possibly the better for being smaller and more intimate. who knows?  here's a little of what happened... 

there was lots of showing and telling

making notes

a visit to Currency Creek Arboretum

where Dean Nicholle [shown here disappearing into the distance] enlightened us about some of the features of the genus eucalyptus, kindly let us collect windfalls for the dyepots

and generously picked us lots of treasures as well

we broke bread together and spent cosy evenings sewing, bundling and reading books [from our library table]

we managed a few walks despite some serious rain

and hung lines full of dyed samples

towards the end of the week we wandered out again, this time to the South Australian Museum

to study objects in the Aboriginal Cultures Gallery

after lunch at the Art Gallery of South Australia we walked to the Adelaide Botanic Garden where we visited the recently restored Museum of Economic Botany [the last colonial Museum of Economic Botany remaining in the world]

 

and popped into the new glasshouse built around the Victoria amazonica

before heading back to the hills for more gentle stitching

[this piece by Holly Story]

it was a rewarding five days...thanks to the generous spirits and warm hearts of those who attended