- This is a two-day workshop.
- Thursday 1 May 18:00 - 20:00
- Friday 2 May 18:00 - 20:00
- Suitable for Adults
- €60 ticket
Join artist Roxana Manouchehri in a two-day workshop where you will learn a variety of weaving techniques and create your own bag or basket. This adult workshop celebrates the creative, energetic spirit of Bealtaine, while giving participants the opportunity to take a closer look at The Goose and the Common.
Weaving has been a vital part of many cultural practices for hundreds of years and continues to play a key role in a wide variety of communities today. The Goose and the Common, Rua Red’s exhibition with Array Collective, touches on one such instance in its inclusion of a net ‘wall’ near the gallery entrance, which invites visitors to weave strips of soft neon and silver fabric throughout, in reference to the Ukrainian community groups who weave camouflage nets to aid their soldiers in the ongoing war perpetrated by Russia.
This workshop draws inspiration from the exhibition as well as the artists’ own experience learning weaving and basket-making techniques in the Iranian countryside. The joyful, relaxing, and meditative process of weaving encourages you to slow down and concentrate on creating patterns and objects with your hands, something taken for granted in our increasingly digitised society. In this workshop, you will be introduced to three different methods of weaving used in African, Native American, and Persian Cultures.
Natural and up-cycled materials will be used to create a bag or basket that you will take home with you.
**Participants are encouraged to bring in an old t-shirt or other item made from jersey material to up-cycle during the workshop. Additional materials will be provided, so not to worry if you don’t have something suitable.
About the Artist:
Roxana Manouchehri is an Iranian/Irish visual artist and curator based in Dublin. She received an MFA in fine art from the Tehran University of Art. Roxana has worked and lived in Dublin since 2009.
She has been teaching art and giving talks and workshops, since 1995 in different universities and museums in Tehran, Seoul, and Dublin, including Trinity College, the Chester Beatty Museum, Hugh Lane Gallery, Open House Dublin, Rua Red, the Mother Tongues Festival, and IMMA.
