Monthly Members Get to-gethers
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Past: Mark Rautenbach
March 2020, SASNEV, FREE
Artist Mark Rautenbach will be giving a talk on how he uses traditional craft techniques, specifically knitting, to make his artworks. Rautenbach comes from Pietermaritzburg where he grew up and studied. He has worked in the movie industry, retail, has his own hand painted t-shirt and fabric company, lectured Design at tertiary level and taught Design and Visual art at High School level. He also taught Design and Art for a term with Deaf Children. He’s always made art and has had varying degrees of commercial success and critical acclaim. It’s only been the last few years that he’s been able to support himself solely from his art. His talk will end in an open discussion on the conversations between art and craft and asks the question, ‘when does an object or action become art?’ Learn more about Mark.
Past: Featherd – With Pascale Theron
July 2020, sasnev, FREE
Pascale Theron is a South African artist and designer living and working in The Netherlands. She focuses on ‘Feathered Fabrics, a series of artistic textiles that are handwoven, using the ostrich feathers from Oudsthoorn (ZA) as thread.
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Pascale presented this project at the Design Indaba in March last year. For Dutch Design Week, Pascale
collaborated with other creatives and crafters from different fields and countries to bring some exciting new fashion items and interior furniture pieces; Lezanne Viviers from Viviers Studio
Pascale will be sharing her creative process and vision with us all the way from her studio in the Netherlands on Saturday at our guild meeting. We are very excited to present this meeting and hope many of you will join us! Learn more about Pascale.
Past: The magic of playing with food
October 2020, SASNEV, FREE
Fibre explorations in the kitchen from a knitter’s perspective with Nicola.
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In March 2020 the world as we knew it, stopped spinning.
The Great Pause that it heralded, lead us to new ways of seeing and new ways of being.
It was in this stopping, in the noticing and the connections that I saw through the virtual portal to the whole world that suddenly opened, that some of the ideas that I will share with you, were born. Others are just quirky questions like: can I knit in spaghetti? Rice vermicelli? Glass noodles?
Non-toxic materials, making do with what we have, being, exploring, creating, stepping more lightly on our earth in crisis and always asking “can I do this differently?”
My hope is that in sharing the magic, you may be inspired to start exploring in your own way, discover new connections or at least to see the materials in your kitchen in a new light.
Nicola is a fibre artist who works in finding ways of recording space and time, making sure that there is always a playful element to exploring the moment.
She works cross-media in knitting, spinning, felt-, paper- and book-making with a particular interest in surface design and working in natural and non-toxic materials, dyes and inks.
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