MAC yapang Presents : Felted Vessel Workshop

MAC yapang Presents

Join Lake Macquarie based artist, Amanda Donohue in this one day workshop and learn the fine craft of felting.

Donohue will introduce participants to the principals and techniques of felting and guide you through the process of creating your own soft sculpture vessel.

Key information:

• Materials included - Participants are asked to bring their own towel for use in workshop
• Workshop size - This is an intimate workshop. Capacity is limited. This workshop requires a minimum number of participants to go ahead. In the event this is not reached, tickets holders will be contacted and reimbursed.
• The workshop will run from 10:00am to 2:30pm with a half hour break at 12:30.
• Participants may BYO lunch, pre- order from cafe, or purchase a MAC grazing board. Note MAC Grazing boards are only available by preorder as an addon with your ticket up until 8th October 2024
• This workshop will be held in our marquee accessed via the MAC Terrace. Please dress for the weather. Closed toe shoes are required
• For ages 16+
• Beginners welcome
• For enquiries contact [email protected]
• This event may be photographed and filmed and your image could be used in advertising and promotion by Lake Macquarie City Council. Should you wish to not be photographed or filmed please advise event organisers on entry at the event.

Tickets

• General admission - $95 (includes booking fee)
• Lake Arts Member - $85.50 (includes booking fee)
• Add on Grazing board $24 (suits 1 - 2pple) Gluten free option available.
• Please note there is no need to print your tickets off for this event, staff will provide electronic check upon checkin at the visitor services desk.

About the Artist

Amanda has been a practicing artist for about 25 years – working as a printmaker and textile artist. She creates etchings, lino prints, drypoints as well as unique hand sewn or dyed items including scarves, runners, vessels (bowls, vases), bags, coasters. A life-time love of textiles and interest in the ‘genderisation’ of embroidery often see her combining mediums, printing onto textiles or hand stitching into prints.

Amanda’s practice is influenced by multiple themes including domesticity, innocence and popular culture. She investigates the connection between these themes and images or items from her own personal history – an event, a person or place, physical or ephemeral. Activities, thoughts, items reoccur daily, weekly, monthly. Repetition makes for familiarity and meditation. Patterns form and life continues.

Amanda is a member of the Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, the Make Space collective and Art-in-Sync. She works teaches printmaking and textile techniques, works part time for a regional arts organisation and, in 2023, was a mentor for Newcastle Art Space.