Event details
Location
- Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
- Google Map Link
Date and time
- Saturday, 28 November, 11am - 3.30pm
Event type
- Workshop
Audience
- Community
Event Fee
- $55 per person
Registration
- Registration essential
HERO
Make Your Own Trophy with Olga Cironis
Make Your Own Trophy with Olga Cironis
Saturday, 28 November, 11am-3.30pm
What deserves to be celebrated?
Join artist Olga Cironis for a hands-on creative workshop exploring identity, belonging and the stories we carry with us.
Beginning with a gold trophy, participants will use fabric, thread, wrapping and stitching to transform this familiar symbol of achievement into a unique sculptural work with a meaning of their own.
Olga will introduce her artistic practice and share examples of her work before demonstrating techniques for covering and stitching three-dimensional forms. She will then guide participants as they create their own sculpture to take home.
Fabric and materials will be provided, but participants are also invited to bring a piece of fabric that holds personal significance, perhaps connected to a person, place, memory or experience. Through this process, each trophy becomes something entirely individual, shaped by the materials and stories we choose to carry with us.
Drawing on themes within Olga’s practice and her exhibition Mother Island, the workshop offers a playful and thoughtful opportunity to explore ideas of identity, belonging, memory and place through making.
Beginning with a gold trophy, participants will use fabric, thread, wrapping and stitching to transform this familiar symbol of achievement into a unique sculptural work with a meaning of their own.
Olga will introduce her artistic practice and share examples of her work before demonstrating techniques for covering and stitching three-dimensional forms. She will then guide participants as they create their own sculpture to take home.
Fabric and materials will be provided, but participants are also invited to bring a piece of fabric that holds personal significance, perhaps connected to a person, place, memory or experience. Through this process, each trophy becomes something entirely individual, shaped by the materials and stories we choose to carry with us.
Drawing on themes within Olga’s practice and her exhibition Mother Island, the workshop offers a playful and thoughtful opportunity to explore ideas of identity, belonging, memory and place through making.
Limited to 10 participants – get in quick to secure your place.
Tickets $55
WHAT TO BRING
All materials are supplied. This workshop is suitable for participants who are competent in basic hand sewing.
Olga Cironis engages with global conflict through a feminist and ecological lens, subverting the militaristic use of camouflage textiles by reclaiming them as an emblem of female strength and endurance. Her work points to the irony of camouflage mimicking nature to serve human warfare while simultaneously compromising the environment.
Tickets $55
WHAT TO BRING
All materials are supplied. This workshop is suitable for participants who are competent in basic hand sewing.
VISITING LWAG
See Cironis’s work in Mother Island from 17 October – 5 December. LWAG is open 11am – 4pm Tuesday – Saturday
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We acknowledge we are situated on Whadjuk Noongar land. We pay our respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which we live and work across Western Australia and Australia.
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Image Credit: Olga Cironis with her work Her gaze was a falling tree, 2026, installed Mother Island exhibition, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, 2026. Photographer: Suzie Gravestock, Ilkka K Photography