Circular Basket Weaving Workshop

Sienna Barton is a painter and textile artist based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga). Freshly graduating from the MFA program at RMIT University, her artistic practice is obsessive and time- consuming. Often serving as a means of soothing fidgety fingers, her work seeks to transform anxious energy into tangible works of art.

She’s currently focusing on understanding her relationship to colour: why pink features so prolifically and why red makes her cringe. Her textile works utilise discarded materials from local clothing labels and her own wardrobe, while others are collected by her grandparents during their weekly trips to the op shop. It’s a true labour of love, and each thread has an embodied history.

BETA By STH BNK is a revolutionary testing area exploring the future of retail through a series of events and residencies across fashion, learning, food, art and technology. These unique and innovative events are designed to give Melburnians a feel for what can be expected as part of Beulah’s transformative and visionary mini-metropolis, STH BNK By Beulah.