Emma Buswell is an artist who uses knitting as a tool to communicate their understanding of the world around them. Combining image and text, her works use stitch as both media and data point, each stitch building up information that when put together present a multitude of ideas.
Knitted stitches form the basis of these images, and in this workshop Emma will guide you through how to translate your own ideas into a stitch pattern to embroider on your own piece of cloth. Participants will be supplied with materials to design and embroider their own piece with a technique called duplicate stitch.
All materials will be provided and all skill levels welcome.
Emma Buswell is a West Australian based artist, curator and designer. Emma is fascinated with systems of government, economies and culture particularly in relation to constructs of place, identity and community. Her current work is focusing on relationships between identity and place, with a motivated enquiry into the way in which kitsch and nostalgia play into our understandings of self-identification and personal histories. Using Tropes appropriated from popular culture and Australian art history, Buswell examines her own family histories intuited through conversations and the learnt craft techniques from her maternal family line.
She has exhibited internationally and nationally and in 2011 was selected to attend the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Lake Como, Italy. She has previously worked on projects including maxART, Success, Moana ARI and Polizia and co-founded Cool Change Contemporary in 2018. Emma was also the Co-ordinator of the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award where she assisted with a host of other curatorial projects.
Location: 12 Kent Street East Victoria Park 6101
Supported by: Town of Victoria Park, Creative Australia and IOTA24.
Image credit: Ezra Alcantra
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