Join RMIT Brunswick Campus Dye Garden for a long table session uniting all who are enthusiastic about cultivating plants and sharing natural dyeing methods.
The Sharing Natural Dye Knowledges Long Table brings together students and community members to share and discuss dye plants, natural dyeing techniques, materials, sampling, and process journals. This event celebrates and highlights the value of local and community knowledges for plant-based dyeing. Featuring a panel of natural dye experts and enthusiasts, the session fosters an discussion about growing dye plants, dye techniques, and maintaining dye journals. The Long Table becomes a space for collectively sharing and showcasing design process, and growing understanding of creative and responsible relationships with plants and Country. All attendees are encouraged to bring along and share their natural dye stories, samples, journals and artefacts contributing to the collaborative exchange of ideas and experiences.
While anyone is welcome, children must be accompanied and supervised by an adult (aged 18+) at all times.
Event activities will take place outdoors in the dye garden (weather permitting) and indoor event spaces on Level 2; these are wheelchair accessible.
Participants
Growing Waa Weelum: People, Plants, Place
Growing Waa Weelum is a project workshop series run through RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles. The series is led by textile and dye specialist Verity Prideaux, fashion and place academic Dr Tarryn Handcock, and Cathy Doe (Irukandji) Reconciliation Advisor for the College of Design & Social Context at RMIT, with philanthropic support from the Verdnik Family. Growing Waa Weelum: People, Plants, Place provides space for sharing, growing and generating creative, community, and cross-cultural approaches through fashion and textiles, in relationship with the on-site dye garden at RMIT Brunswick campus.
Dani Andrée
Dani is a Melbourne-based artist and designer, and Masters by Research candidate at RMIT University. She is an expert in textile print and construction and has undertaken extensive plant-based dye, ink, and print medium development. Her current research explores ways of interacting with plant life through creating dialogical relations between plant growth and artistic action.
Celina Kanae Samarakoon
Celina is a sustainability and natural dye specialist with an in-depth knowledge of traditional cultural design approaches and textile techniques. She is the founder of Child of Society, a brand that champions zero waste, genderless and age-less design, and showcases her Japanese and Sri Lankan heritage.
Eamonn Briggs
Eamonn is an RMIT Bachelor of Fashion (Design) student whose work integrates ethical foraging for natural plant dyes. Their work focuses on developing curated digital environments, garments and assets using real world material knowledge. Eamonn’s practice explores how fashion can be a medium to change our values by slowly building of relationships with the natural world surrounding us.
Join RMIT Brunswick Campus Dye Garden for a long table session uniting all who are enthusiastic about cultivating plants and sharing natural dyeing methods.
The Sharing Natural Dye Knowledges Long Table brings together students and community members to share and discuss dye plants, natural dyeing techniques, materials, sampling, and process journals. This event celebrates and highlights the value of local and community knowledges for plant-based dyeing. Featuring a panel of natural dye experts and enthusiasts, the session fosters an discussion about growing dye plants, dye techniques, and maintaining dye journals. The Long Table becomes a space for collectively sharing and showcasing design process, and growing understanding of creative and responsible relationships with plants and Country. All attendees are encouraged to bring along and share their natural dye stories, samples, journals and artefacts contributing to the collaborative exchange of ideas and experiences.
While anyone is welcome, children must be accompanied and supervised by an adult (aged 18+) at all times.
Event activities will take place outdoors in the dye garden (weather permitting) and indoor event spaces on Level 2; these are wheelchair accessible.
Participants
Growing Waa Weelum: People, Plants, Place
Growing Waa Weelum is a project workshop series run through RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles. The series is led by textile and dye specialist Verity Prideaux, fashion and place academic Dr Tarryn Handcock, and Cathy Doe (Irukandji) Reconciliation Advisor for the College of Design & Social Context at RMIT, with philanthropic support from the Verdnik Family. Growing Waa Weelum: People, Plants, Place provides space for sharing, growing and generating creative, community, and cross-cultural approaches through fashion and textiles, in relationship with the on-site dye garden at RMIT Brunswick campus.
Dani Andrée
Dani is a Melbourne-based artist and designer, and Masters by Research candidate at RMIT University. She is an expert in textile print and construction and has undertaken extensive plant-based dye, ink, and print medium development. Her current research explores ways of interacting with plant life through creating dialogical relations between plant growth and artistic action.
Celina Kanae Samarakoon
Celina is a sustainability and natural dye specialist with an in-depth knowledge of traditional cultural design approaches and textile techniques. She is the founder of Child of Society, a brand that champions zero waste, genderless and age-less design, and showcases her Japanese and Sri Lankan heritage.
Eamonn Briggs
Eamonn is an RMIT Bachelor of Fashion (Design) student whose work integrates ethical foraging for natural plant dyes. Their work focuses on developing curated digital environments, garments and assets using real world material knowledge. Eamonn’s practice explores how fashion can be a medium to change our values by slowly building of relationships with the natural world surrounding us.
