As you know, my Making Friday studio practice is all about making, making, making, with no real plan or expectation or need in mind. I find it so important to simply generate work that’s liberated from all the necessary work restrictions of cost and production possibility etc that product development requires. Here’s some of the …
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Making Friday: From the studio walls
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Making Friday: Tiled patterns
I’ve been spending time in the studio preparing for the Ace Camp I’m teaching in Porto next week, carving small 3cm stamps for the students to explore the heck out of. Here are the ones I’ve made, and although I have a vague sense of what kinds of patterns they might make, I’ve held back …
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Print / Repeat / Retreat – a weekend workshop escape
Take some time out from your To Do list, and join Heather on a weekend workshop break at Arumvale Country Retreat in the beautiful Swellendam countryside. On the workshop, you’ll get hands-on insights into how pattern is created, & you’ll also learn how to carve & print your own designs onto paper & textile. In …
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Workshops 2019: Repeat Patterns
Have you ever wondered how a pattern over a large area is created and reproduced? Did you ever want to figure out how to do this yourself?Join our REPEAT PATTERNS workshop on Tuesday 9 April or Saturday 13 April.
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Heading to Porto with Ace Camps
Are you coming to Porto with me in June? I’ll be there with Ace Camps, using the tiles of the city to teach you about how pattern is generated so that you can look at the riches of Porto’s azulejos heritage with fresh eyes.
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Making Friday: Weaving with Imisi
I got to learn the rudiments of traditional imisi reeds basket weaving from the Du Noon Urban Weavers.
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A Year of Making Fridays: 2018
The annual roundup of what happened on Making Friday.
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Making Friday: Colour monster
I’ve been using Colour Pop offcuts to make crazy beasts like this one, just for fun.
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Weaving update
How did I end up with so many looms?
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