Donna Gordge

Visual artist

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NATURE FESTIVAL – STONEYFELL

Cloth, Leaves & Colour with Fiona Connell Textiles

Saturday, October 7 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Connecting with nature and our home Mother Earth, this event will introduce you to the magic of ecodyeing with leaves, and also botanical watercolour painting.

This will be a day of creation, observation and community-building inspired by nature.

Fiona will teach you how to ecoprint onto a thrifted, pre-prepared garment (selected from a size-inclusive range). A delicious home-cooked meal will be served, then weather permitting, we will take a walk along the nearby creek to collect specimens from nature. Donna will guide you through a series of botanical watercolour sketches of your collection, while your garment processes. You’ll take home your dyed garment and several watercolour paintings.

NATURE FESTIVAL – BOTANIC GARDENS

Metal Nature Journals with Katie Sandison

Sunday, October 8 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Join us at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens to make your own embossed metal book cover with Katie, inspired by our surroundings.

Donna will guide you through the process of binding your book using the Coptic stitching technique. Take home your own beautiful hand-bound journal. Suitable for ages 15 and over.

BAROSSA REGIONAL GALLERY

Pressed Metal Nature Journals Children’s Workshop with Katie Sandison

Thursday, October 12

SESSION 1: 10am – 12pm for ages 6 – 12

SESSION 2: 1pm – 3pm for ages 12+*

*age suggestion only, younger children welcome

These workshops are specially tailored to a younger audience. Make your own pressed metal book cover with Katie, filled with butterflies, bugs and bees from the garden.

Donna will then show you how to create your book. Take home your own beautiful hand-bound journal.

BAROSSA REGIONAL GALLERY

Sashiko Visible Mending Creative Workshop

Friday, November 17 1-4pm

Sashiko is a traditional Japanese stitching technique used to reinforce, mend or beautify cloth items. It is particularly decorative and can be used in all sorts of creative ways.

Donna will show you how to create denim patches. You can bring along any woven fabric garments which might need mending or that you’d like to decorate. No prior sewing skills required.

This adult’s creative workshop is suitable for participants age 15+

Tea & coffee provided.

GALLERY 1855 – TEA TREE GULLY

MemoryBook with Caroline Reid

Saturday, 18 November 9:30am to 4:00pm

A writing and artist book-making workshop facilitated by poet Caroline Reid and visual artist Donna Gordge.

This one day workshop is presented in two parts. It is open to anyone who wants to creatively explore family or personal history through poetry and object making.

Morning session: 9:30am to 12:30pm with Caroline Reid

The emphasis is on writing poems that follow the natural rhythms of speech – free verse – and are built on sensory observations: colour, texture, shape, scent, sound, taste and touch. Working from your treasured piece of clothing or object, the workshop will help you shape poetry within the framework of your own personal history.

Afternoon session: 1pm to 4pm with Donna Gordge

You will be guided through activities to inspire your art making from your morning’s writing, in ways that do not include illustration!

You will explore conceptual and technique-driven artwork to reflect the ideas within your poetry. An artist’s book will be completed as part of the day’s project.

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