Mothers Who Make Coventry: Home Eco Dyeing – colour your world with Julia O’Connell

Join us for a talk and workshop with Coventry based textile artist and mother of two Julia O’Connell. Whether by hand or machine, stitching is the core process of Julia’s practice. Through surface, texture, line and pattern, her work explores the commonality of everyday life and is about people, place and stories shared.

For Coventry’s Mothers Who Make hub and supported by Coventry Biennial, Julia will talk about her stitched work, the daily practice of slow stitch and how to create natural dyes from your kitchen, garden or the landscape that surrounds you. An onion, a tea bag, a rusty nail and some spent flowers can be great sources of colour and as summer beckons, now is the perfect time to begin your solar dye experiments with home grown plants, herbs and weeds. Find out how with Julia.

Explore Julia’s work here.

Open to mothers and makers from the Coventry, Warwickshire and West Midlands region. (Any kind of mother – biological, step, to be, bereaved, grand, trans, non-binary…)

This is an adult focused session but children are very welcome to attend with you.

To book, please email motherswhomakecov@gmail.com
All events are Pay As You Feel – payment details shared following booking.

 

About Mothers Who Make Coventry

Mothers Who Make is a fast-growing international initiative aimed at supporting mothers who are artists. Every kind of maker is welcomed and every kind of mother.

For the past two years, the local Mothers Who Make hub in Coventry has been co-facilitated by local artist and mother, Adele Mary Reed. Over the past year she has facilitated the hub independently within a strong collective framework. Following a successful collaboration in 2019, we have renewed our partnership so that Adele can to continue deliver Mothers Who Make in the city.

Further information about the national Mothers Who Make network can be found here.

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