On Saturday 19 February, join EARTH exhibiting artist Michaela Hugh in WEAVING WITH WASTE, a workshop utilising found, foraged, scavenged and salvaged materials to create your own zero-waste, woven artworks.

Participants will meet outside the Lt Malop St entrance of Platform Arts at 10.30am for a walkthrough of EARTH in Gallery Two, led by Michaela McHugh and Gallery Two curator Phoebe Thompson.

We will then head to Johnstone Park gardens pavilion at 11.00am, where Michaela will guide us in weaving with found organic materials and repurposed waste fibres, using woven frames assembled from second-hand materials, holding the memories of their previous owners. Workshop participants will take home their own woven artworks, as well as new skills for future projects. The space will be conversational, meditative, and reflective, hopefully leading workshop participants to deeper reflection of their place in nature and the artistic possibilities of what they can find in the world around them.

This workshop is free and accessible for people of all ages and all experience levels. Participants will be sitting on grass while weaving in Johnstone Gardens; please let us know if you have accessibility requirements.

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Michaela McHugh is a free-roaming multimedia artist who practices in the media of object making, installation, sculpture, land art, printmaking, weaving/textile/craft techniques, drawing, photography and word-smithing. Michaela holds a BFA from Monash University, Caulfield, Victoria and is currently practising art alongside applying Permaculture as a designer and grower.

Investing in materials sourced from the waste stream and from nature, most of her work connects to topics related to landscape and earth. Digging deeper into these topics Michaela generally explores ideas around landscape connection, retrofitting, waste, knowledge, lost skills, self and community sufficiency, sustainability, regeneration, custodianship, ecology, nature, climate, agriculture and farming practices. She approaches each of these through the lens of permaculture values and principles.