Rug Making as Art
Fibre & Textile Arts

Surprise yourself with this unexpected environmentally friendly, fluffy ‘painting’ medium.

A fun class that has you painting without ‘paint’, to create mini artworks that can be hung on a wall, worn as ‘shaggy fashion’ or used as a rug (when upscaled into a larger format). Your choice.

Various materials (upcycled / recycled and new) can be used to create. Students will learn how to create, using the latch-hook rug making technique.

Traditional painting techniques, such as composition, perspective, colour and form will be used to structure the image to be created.

Various materials can be used such as shredded damaged garments, leather swatches (upholstery swatches), wool, string, shoe laces, ribbon, shredded tyre inner tubing and soft plastics, etc, etc, the list is endless.

This will result in an environment friendly ‘painting’

Students will create their own simple work, for example - a basic landscape, stylised 'logo' and / or as you may desire and / or imagine.

Bring your ideas to class. Take away future ideas and unexpected applications, ranging from however not limited to the creation of a wall hanging piece of art or a functioning 'art' rug for your floor!
Event Details
Timing: Full day (9am - approx 5pm)

Price: $120

Value of included Materials (approx): $35

Materials provided: Rug mat, sketching paper, colour pencils, scissors, hot glue guns, latch hooks, various suitable materials to use as the 'yarn' eg. leather, denim, fabrics, yarns, etc

What to bring: Please bring your lunch, water bottle and any special dietry requirements you may have
If you have appropriate materials at home you would like to use, please bring these (this is not essential as all materials supplied however adds your personal touch to your creation)

You will leave with: A mini fluffy art work.

Where: The Suter Art Gallery - Mina Arndt Education Room

Age suitability: 16+

Price: $120


Larisse Hall

An international award-winning artist living in Nelson, New Zealand, Hall combines traditional techniques of painting and form with the science and colour of infused physical light to produce works of art that live and breathe, transforming over time. Her work acknowledging time as our most precious commodity.

Larisse's painting practice has developed significantly since 2008, when she left her position in the fashion industry to pursue her art practice full time. Never fully separating her two worlds; they are now intrinsically intertwined, each feeding and enriching the other.
Once asked to separate her artist self from her creative being, she realized that each inspires the other and together they make her whole.

Environmentally aware, her art and classes encourage sustainability. This, combined with her organic approach to her garden and life, supports the whakatauki:
'Manaaki whenua, manaaki tangata, haere whakamua'
'Care for the land, care for the people, so we may go forward

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