DATE: Saturdays, 28 June – 2 August
TIME: 12 – 2pm
COST: Free, bookings required
Details
Led by Mariana Del Castillo, six-week Woden Arts project, A Sense of Place, aims to encourage collaborations between participants that results in the creation of a variety of cathartic works.
Participants will begin by working with Mariana to design a house structure, to be a starting point or blank canvas. Conceptually the house with its peaked roof is a metaphor for home, family, structure, security, suburbia and community. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their current home or childhood home. They may have been displaced by migration, or a new blended family. Does a home only require a loved one, your pets or a deep connection to a garden?
In weeks 2 and 3 of the project, participants will collaborate to create eco dyed fabrics and Cyanotypes, etched by the leaves of their favourite plants, collected from their gardens or on nature walks around the Woden area. Fabrics they create will be used to clothe their houses, as the first layer of a personal story. Week four focusses on drawing, to create symbols, intimate pictures, animals and text with personal meanings to use in collage and to finish sculpting their story houses in week five. Week six will see the opening of a pop-up exhibition with an online presence.
About the Artist
Mariana is a highly accomplished Ecuadorian-born artist working across 2 and 3D artforms in mixed media and textiles. Since 2016 she has facilitated the Arts for Recovery Program working with ex-service and emergency service personnel through the University of Canberra and she has established a respected practice in art therapy for kids at risk, indigenous and migrant groups and disability Art programs. Mariana is committed to engaging with the wider community through her professional art practice and she feels it is important for communities to have a cathartic and alternative voice through visual arts.
Mariana del Castillo at the opening of Longing and Belonging exhibition