Weaving with Natural Fibers | Home Program Workshop

This is an amazing opportunity for children to learn from the established artist Debbie Taylor Worley.

Weaving has been used as a method to create all kinds of tools including food tools, baskets, jewellery, fishing nets and skin cloaks. Traditional Aboriginal weaving is of great importance to Aboriginal women. Weaving is a calming and meditative process. Tailored to be age-appropriate, younger children can have some fun learning to weave a “God’s Eye”. Using a combination of natural and man-made materials, they will learn this easy weaving technique to create a colourful ornament. Older children will be taught how to make string from natural grasses and helped to create a small basket or bowl.

Debbie Taylor-Worley

ARTIST BIO  2023

Debbie Taylor-Worley’s art practice is everchanging and multidisciplinary, working primarily with clay and textiles. “The longer I am in the art industry, the more diverse my practice gets!” A “hands on” artist, she relishes the making process. As a Gamilaraay woman, Taylor-Worley uses an intuitive art-making process to reconnect to Ancestral roots. By using earth, natural water sources, landscape, and other natural mediums, she treads a path of connection to culture, Country and the spirituality of her Ancestors.

Taylor- Worley was the winner of the 2018 Redlands Art Award. She was awarded the Windmill Trust Scholarship in 2020 and the Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship in 2021. She is a sessional lecturer within the Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art degree at Queensland College of Art and is currently a Doctor of Visual Art candidate. She received the Special Commendation Award at the Churchie Emerging art Awards 2023.

Thursday 28 September

MORNING SESSION | For ages 5-9 yrs, 11.00-12pm.

AFTERNOON SESSION | For ages 9+, 1.30 -3 pm

VENUE | Packsaddle Studio  (located at the rear of NERAM)

Friday 29 September

MORNING SESSION | For ages 5-9yrs, 11.00-12pm.

AFTERNOON SESSION | For ages 9+, 1.30 -3 pm

VENUE | Mazda Gallery in NERAM

COST | $20 per person

MATERIALS | All materials are included

Terms and Conditions

• All bookings for workshops require payment in full at the time of booking.
• A  maximum of 10 Students, minimum numbers required for classes to proceed.
• Please be aware that once bookings close, we cannot offer a refund.
• If the class does not proceed, you will be refunded any cash amount.
• NERAM events have a limited capacity and use a ticketing system. Bookings are essential.