Please join Dr Rebecca Mayo for a hands-on workshop to uncover the hidden colour palette of Gawari Mada (Holt Microforest).

All ages and abilities welcome to join this participatory plant dyeing workshop where we will use a selection of plants growing on site to develop a unique colour palette of the forest!

What to bring:

- appropriate sun / weather protection including warm clothing, sun hat, wet weather gear
- drinking water and snacks
- closed-toe footwear must be worn at all times
- persons under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian

About Rebecca Mayo:

Rebecca Mayo is an Australian artist. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Printmedia and Drawing Workshop at the School of Art & Design, Australian National University. Trained in printmaking, she draws upon its performative attributes of repetition and re-iteration. She is particularly interested in relationships between people and plants, and to use her practice and research to bring people back into conversation with more-than-human life.

Mayo often examines relations and interactions between urban ecologically significant sites and people. The colour palette created at this workshop will inform the final artwork created using her Plant Sensibilia Machine for Living City, Gawari Mada later in the year. Keep an eye out for dates and come and see the Plant Sensibilia Machine in action then!

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This workshop is part of Living City: people, plants and place, a three-year visual arts and design program working with Canberra’s suburban communities and many urban natural environments. The program encourages accessible and inclusive, art-based engagement with urban spaces while addressing climate change, urban biodiversity, well-being and conservation. More.

This program is funded by ArtsACT and the ANU School of Art & Design.