Stitched Landscape Brooch Workshop with Pippita Bennett

When: Sunday August 18th, Morning 10.30 - 12.30 OR Afternoon 1.30 - 3.30.

Price: $110 per person (plus booking fee)

What you’ll get: all materials will be provided. Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be provided to energise you throughout the class.

What you need to bring: a can-do attitude and an open mind. We’ll provide all the materials, but feel free to bring your own if you have something you’d like to use.

About the Workshop: Join textile artist Pippita Bennett to create a brooch using naturally dyed and thrifted fabric and threads. She’ll teach you her process in selecting fabrics, building composition and stitching a miniature landscape. You’ll discover the joys of slow stitching, using sustainable materials, working with simple running stitch as well as French knots, blanket stitch and fly stitch.

Your finished brooch will be a one-of-a-kind wearable artwork.

Suitable for all levels. Recommended for ages 16 and up. All materials are provided feel free to bring your own needles and scissors.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Due to the nature of these workshops we cannot refund your ticket if you cancel within 7 days of the event. The Corner Store Gallery reserves the right to cancel this workshop due to unforeseen circumstances or if minimum tickets sales are not met. In the event of teacher cancellation your payment will be fully refunded.

About Pippita

Pippita Bennett creates stitched landscapes of places lived in and visited. Her home on Dharug and Gundungurra country is the source of her practice; she uses leaves, bark and flowers from her surrounds and the wild places she travels to dye the threads and textiles she works with, gathering extra inspiration from thrifted materials. Her dyed fabrics are soaked with the memory of the place they were dyed; similarly thrifted fabric holds memory of its past use.

Pippita works wherever she finds herself: at home, in wild landscapes, in waiting rooms and libraries, allowing her needle to follow the line of a branch, rock or a thought. Stitches are her words; a journal of place and time, where memories and images overlay each other to form the landscape of a life.

Pippita studied art at the Tin Sheds as part of her architecture degree, and has worked in primary school teaching for the last twenty years. She is currently studying a Master of Art Therapy, and is happiest stitching with a dog on her lap and a cup of tea beside her.