Monday, April 07, 2008

Workshop with Seiji Konishi






Mr Seiji Konishi from Japan ran a one day workshop at the Atwell Art Centre Gallery (Western Australia) organised by WAFTA. Mr Konishi is a master weaver and sculptural basket maker teaching at the Kawashima Textile School in Kyoto, Japan. Mr Konishi supplied raffia and explained some construction techniques for coiling. It was a relaxing day with most students soon picking up the basics and then exploring what they could do with this simple natural material. Student works ranged from traditional-looking mini baskets to sculptural "playthings" which just invited the viewer to touch and rearrange them. I think most of us were thinking at some time during the day about what we could do with this technique using fabric and thread. Here are some photos of the student achievements made by the end of the day - mine is the one on a water bottle. It only goes half way up because that was as far as I got by the end of the day and I had to learn how to finish off!

Friday, April 04, 2008

Empty Ironing Basket


This is to prove I finished the ironing on 2 April 08.

Twenty four hours later they were full again!

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Queen of the May is Bound




I have put the binding, sleeve and label on Queen of the May. I took some close ups of the quilting done by Nicola.