About this event:

Through this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to experiment with different plant fibres from the Braziers Park landscape. In the morning, we will identify, forage and process plants that can be made into cordage. In the afternoon, we will explore different techniques – weaving, looping, coiling – that enable us to build up different forms using our cordage.

Participants will be encouraged to pick, snap, split, scrape, and prod plants, getting to know them and their weaving affordances. The emphasis will not be on having a perfected piece to take home. Instead, the focus will be on taking home skills and inspiration, creating space for experimentation, risks, and new understandings.

This is the first of two Living Fibres workshops. It can be attended as a stand-alone workshop or as the first of the two-part series.

About the facilitator:

Fred’s work combines experience in community arts, visual anthropology & agroecology. He is particularly interested in producing work that engages with both the materials and politics of different landscapes. His most recent work responds to the plants he encounters as part of his work on a small-scale vegetable farm in North Oxfordshire. This has led to experiments with cordage, coiled basketry, and most recently – thanks to funding from Arts Council England – the construction of camera obscurae.