Plant circles – bundle dyeing and drawing workshop

'Plant circles'

Join botanical dyer Pen Pender and drawing facilitator Craig Burgess for ‘plant circles’ – a bundle dyeing and drawing workshop in Macedon, Wurundjeri Country.

Take a trip out of town, and enjoy a relaxing and inclusive space to experiment with botanical dyeing and an ecological approach to drawing.

With Pen, we will:

• discuss the seasonal cycles of gathering and harvesting garden plants for dye making

• learn to prepare cloth and a dye bath for bundle dyeing

• make our own dyed fabric from plants from Pen’s garden

With Craig, we will:

• consider the form of the circle in creative process and in more-than-human worlds

• experiment with an ecological approach to drawing, and with drawing as an experience of dialogue with nature

All drawing and dyeing materials included

Light refreshments included

Location of workshop is in Macedon and details provided upon registration

Please get in touch with any access needs

About the facilitators:

Pen Pender (she/her): 'I have a long held passion for plants. Growing, tending and learning about them as a florist and gardener. My introduction to natural dyeing came from reading a magazine article in 2019, I have been hooked ever since!  This is an ancient craft and one that is fascinating to explore. It is seeing a welcome revival and with it the awareness of materials, thoughtful manufacture and consumerism.' penpender.com

Craig Burgess (he/him) is an artist and facilitator. Craig started hosting drawing workshops in 2023 at the overlap of creative process, nature-connectedness and wellbeing. Craig brings curiosity around drawing’s capacity to support embodied presence, reflection and noticing, and to revitalise a sense of relationship with each other and the more-than-human. drawplantstogether.com

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This workshop is an inclusive and intersectional space. Everyone of all ages, backgrounds, sexualities, genders, bodies and abilities is welcome.

Draw Plants Together and Pen Pender Botanical Dyer acknowledge the unceded Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Land where the workshop takes place, and we express our respects to First Nations Elders and community, and to all First Peoples