Basketry meets Textile Art in this cross-pollination workshop with fibre artist and popular tutor Martien van Zuilen. We will delve into the art of creating colourful coiled baskets, small wall hangings, jewellery, and freeform sculptures. Materials will abound - including raffia, recycled fabrics, paper cord, handmade felt, and a variety of novelty fibres, waxed linen and other threads.
A range of coiling techniques will be shown, including how to incorporate embellishments and adorn your hand-crafted treasures (think shells, buttons, feathers...). The world will be our coiling oyster!
Martien van Zuilen is widely recognised for her technical excellence and design skills in the medium of handmade felt. Since the late 1980s, she has exhibited her distinctive artworks nationally and internationally. Martien is also one of Australia’s leading felting tutors with an extensive teaching portfolio of national and international workshops at all levels of experience, across a broad range of topics.
She is passionate about the role of the arts in community and counts herself lucky to be able to inspire others about the ‘magic’ of Felt in all its forms.
Based in Perth, WA, Martien has a full-time fibre art studio practice which she combines with her roles as a freelance curator, Convenor of Fibres West Inc. and Creative Program Lead with North Midlands Project. Her work is included in numerous international publications, books, and specialist arts magazines.