Workshop // Stitching and Storytelling with Elizabeth Day
Wed 15 Jul '26
Overview
Join BRAG and cross-disciplinary artist Elizabeth Day for a relaxed stitching and storytelling workshop about places and buildings in Bathurst.
Elizabeth Day attempts to 'unravel' stories inherent in our early colonial history. She 'draws' with unravelled op shop garments, muslin and stitching.
Invisible Worlds/Invisible Words is a work in the exhibition that considers the memories and stories that a prison wall or other convict architecture…
Join BRAG and cross-disciplinary artist Elizabeth Day for a relaxed stitching and storytelling workshop about places and buildings in Bathurst.
Elizabeth Day attempts to 'unravel' stories inherent in our early colonial history. She 'draws' with unravelled op shop garments, muslin and stitching.
Invisible Worlds/Invisible Words is a work in the exhibition that considers the memories and stories that a prison wall or other convict architecture might hold. The arrival of the prison meant that Indigenous people were confronted with a legal system that was alien to them. The work also recognises the individuality of stone carvers who were responsible for the building of early architecture around Australian towns including Bathurst. The individuality is manifest in the huge variety of mark making one finds on chipped stones. It would be great to hear from those in the community who remember two or three generations of Bathurst history, but young participants very welcome. Indigenous story-tellers very welcome also.
This workshop is suitable for adults only.
What to bring:
Participants can bring their own preferred stitching media, but story-telling textiles will be provided.
Please bring stories, memories and photographs that can be a starting point for the workshop.
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