19.6.2021

The STITCH Workshop: Continued Overleaf

The Kunsthalle and the Taito South-Ostrobothnia Association offer a set of contemporary textile art workshops in the summer 2021. The Continued Overleaf workshop is held and instructed in English.

The workshops are part of the complementary program of the PISTO (“STITCH”) exhibition.

Continued Overleaf

You are warmly welcome to the fabric book making & sketching workshop. This process-based project invites the audience to experiment with using textiles to record our immediate environment. The workshop is held on Saturday 19th June from 9 to 3 pm.

Each participant will make a portable artistic sketchbook out of fabric. This complete transportable set will contain both the surface and the materials for mark making. It can be used to capture images while out on a walk, visiting a museum or travelling on a train, as well as the creative ideas born in our imagination. This project is about how we view and see the world around us. Using embroidery and textile work as a means of sketching is a process that requires focus, close attention, and patience. These images cannot be erased, cannot be turned into whole again, but can be repaired and mended.

The morning will be spent preparing the materials and sharing ideas and skills. In the afternoon we will get to experiment with sketching using the current exhibition as well as the building itself as a source of inspiration. At the end of the workshop, you will have learnt to sketch using only a needle and thread, look carefully and recognise the patterns in your environment and translate them into fabric forms.

All materials and equipment will be provided, however you are very welcome to bring your own fabrics and embroidery thread, if you like (about 1x1m piece is enough). This workshop is suitable for people of all ages, beginners as well as advanced textile practitioners. It will require some movement and non-intensive walking. The languages are English, Finnish and Russian.

 

About the author:

Anastasia Artemeva is a visual and socially-engaged artist and researcher based in Helsinki. Her practice is focused on spaces: how we inhabit spaces, how we co-exist in the same space, even when our perceptions and experiences are different, how spaces and their histories affect us and how we affect them.

Artemeva studied Fashion Design and Sculpture & Combined media in Limerick School of Art and Design (Ireland) with 2012, and  Environmental art in Aalto University. Artemeva has written for the Visual Artist’s News Sheet, Paper Visual Art and IMAGE InSEA: International Society for Education through Art magazine.