Craft a bird bath from clay with Kaitlyn Elsegood in this school holiday workshop inspired by the 2022 Environmental Art Project: Backyard Biodiversity. Experimenting with a range of hand building and decorating techniques, the bird baths created will be perfect to hang in a tree and provide water to our feathered friends.

Thu 21 Apr 2022 | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 5-12yrs
$45 | $40.50 members | Materials supplied

Image: Photograph by Rae Fallon

Create an embroidered ball with It's a Matter of How You Look at Things artist Anne Williams. You'll work with naturally dyed yarn and recycled materials to craft a ball that acknowledges the ground beneath our feet. No textile experience necessary. 

Previously an art teacher, Anne Williams now shares her passion for textiles, through spinning, weaving, knitting, crochet, basketry, natural dyeing and pigment making. Anne has previously held solo shows at Mundaring Arts Centre (2016) and Midland Junction Arts Centre (2019).

Sat 19 Feb | 12pm - 3pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$75 | $67.50 members | Materials supplied 

Image: Anne Williams, Groundcover Series (detail), 2021, wool, silk, paper hand stitching, spinning, plant dyeing, 7-9cm each. Photograph by Josh Wells

Learn to crochet wire to form small sculptures with Tributaries artist Tineke Van der Eecken. Using a variety of recycled wire and different sized crochet hooks, you’ll create beautiful free form objects.

Tineke Van der Eecken is a Belgian-born, Australian artist who combines jewellery, micro sculptures, poetry and photography in her multidisciplinary practice to articulate narratives of place.

Sat 13 Nov | 12pm - 3pm | Suitable for 13+ yrs
$75 | $67.50 members | Materials supplied
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Image: Tineke Van der Eecken, samples in copper wire and silver.

Join Noongar artist and Language specialist Carol Foley in the school holidays to learn about technology and construction techniques traditionally used by our local First Nations peoples to carry food and other objects. Kids will craft an object out of natural materials and then put their construction skills to the test with an egg and spoon type race at the end.  

This workshop is part of Food for Thought and the Act Belong Commit Caring for Country Project.

Tue 28 Sep | 10am – 12pm at Midland Junction Arts Centre
OR 2pm - 4pm at Swan View Youth Centre
$5 | $4.50 members | Suitable for 6 - 12 yrs | Materials supplied
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Midland Junction Arts Centre 276 Great Eastern Hwy Corner of Cale St Midland WA
Swan View Youth Centre, Salisbury Road, Swan View WA

Image: Photo by Susie Blatchford.

Join Sharyn Egan to create your own fantastic creature using natural fibres and wool. You’ll learn binding and wrapping techniques and discover how Sharyn uses contemporary materials to tell traditional stories whilst you sculpt a local animal significant to Nyoongar people. Suitable for both adults and kids ages 8+ this is a fantastic workshop to share with family.

Sharyn Egan’s arts practice is informed by the experiences of her life as a Nyoongar woman growing up in New Norcia and comments upon the associated trauma, emotions and a deep sense of loss and displacement experienced by Aboriginal people. Sharyn works in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture and woven forms using both contemporary and traditional natural materials.

Sun 19 Sep | 10am – 12pm OR 1pm – 3pm | Suitable for 8+ years
$50 | $45 members | Materials and light refreshments supplied
Mundaring Adult Creative & Learning Centre 3 Craigie Place Mundaring WA
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Image: courtesy the artist

Join Leanne Bray to learn the basket making technique of stitching and coiling in the school holidays. Using thread and a length of rope, you’ll make a colourful vessel for food whilst discovering the long history of baskets as containers for all types of produce as a part of the Food For Thought Project.

Please wear enclosed shoes, clothes you don’t mind getting messy, a drink bottle and a nut free snack.

Selected pieces will be showcased in an exhibition as a part of the Food for Thought project.

Mon 12 Apr | 10am - 1pm | 8+ yrs
$5 | $4.50 Members
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Supported by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, Shire of Mundaring and Lotterywest.

A fun and meditative introduction to rope coiling with Leanne Bray. Once you learn this simple basketry technique, you can let your creativity run free to make all kinds of vessels, whether it be a basket, a bowl or a hanging planter! This introductory workshop only requires a little patience and a love for stitching. Open to all skill levels.

Leanne Bray is a multi-disciplinary artist with over thirty-five years’ experience in a range of media, such as textiles and illustration. With a home-based studio and public art space in Australia and Zimbabwe, you will find her latest exhibition Discernible Sequence on show at the Mundaring Arts Centre.

Sat 31 Oct | 12pm - 3pm | Suitable for 13+ yrs
$60 | $54 Members | All materials supplied

Join Leanne Bray to learn coiling, a technique commonly used in basket making. Using some thread and a length of rope, you’ll make all kinds of wonderful shapes!

Fri 2 Oct | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 7-12 yrs
$20 | $18 Members | All materials supplied