Back by popular demand, The Dax Centre is excited to announce new creative workshops with Louise Meuwissen!

To mark the final weeks of the She Who Persists exhibition, Louise Meuwissen will host the craft-based workshop: Vessels for Emotional Holding.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

Join artist Louise Meuwissen in a workshop celebrating craft-based artmaking as a generative and restorative practice for emotional wellbeing. This workshop celebrates the power of adornment, symbology, and personal expression.

Create your own soft sculpture, in the form of a small, lidded vessel for emotional holding, embellished with recycled vintage and contemporary beads and sequins from Louise’s collection.

In a friendly and relaxed environment, you will be guided through hand-sewing construction techniques and the principles of bead embroidery.

Participants with all levels of experience are welcome and encouraged – no prior sewing experience necessary. All materials provided. (Please feel welcome to bring along any materials of significance or sentiment you would like to include in your own work).

DETAILS:

Date: Saturday, 5th April, 2025

Times: Session 1: 10am-1pm Session 2: 2.30-5.30pm

We are running two workshop sessions on the 5th April. Participants are welcome to attend either session. The ticket price covers the attendance of one session. Participants are not required to attend both sessions.

Tickets: $68 (includes GST + Booking Fee)

Drinks and snacks will be provided to fuel the creativity - with a glass of bubbles on arrival!

ABOUT LOUISE MEUWISSEN:

Louise Meuwissen works with textiles and found materials to make intricate embroidered paintings, sculptures and wearable art – transforming components of costume and dress into objects imbued with uncanny psychological and spiritual resonances. Her work employs DIY methodologies and craft techniques to blend post-consumer materials – high and low – with time, care, and attention. Meuwissen’s practice considers the complex individual and collective relationships we form with objects, and how they come to embody meaning and value; carry energetic, symbolic, and intellectual charge; and become anchors for thoughts and beliefs. Her work is informed by adornment and decoration, and the fluxing of fashion – underpinned by discarding and collecting, the interplay between labour and luxury, and environmental sustainability. Her practice considers the intangible, unknowable, and mortality, informed by eclectic research investigating devotion, the Sublime, hoarding, storytelling and mythology.

Learn more about the workshop and Louise's creative practice here:
WORKSHOP- Vessels for Emotional Holding — Louise Meuwissen

Please get in touch with The Dax Centre with any questions at info@daxcentre.org or on +61 3 9349 2538

In addition, please let us know of any dietary requirements upon bookings.

We can't wait to see you there! All ticket proceeds go toward supporting artists with lived experience of mental health conditions.