Workshop
Participants will work with weeds and vegetables, exploring the motivations behind material selection as both makers and wearers.
The class will cover cordage, threading beads, and incorporating natural dyes into bioplastic, which participants will learn to make and cast.
Each participant will take home recipes, a personalized mold, supporting reading materials, basic bioplastic-making equipment, and the items they create.
The group will share a lunch made from byproducts of the mornings processes.
Ticket price includes $50 of materials.
Genre: Workshop
Artist / Tutor: Justine FletcherDate: 12/04/2025
Times: 09:00 - 15:00Price: $230
Venue: NMIT Classroom
Skill level required: All levels
Students need to bring: Participants will supply: chopping board, knife two or three containers. needle, thread, scissors. Participants are invited to bring small objects they may like to make molds from and will need to share any dietary requirements.
Justine Fletcher
Justine is completing her MFA at Massey University Toi Rauwh_rangi, making tool-ornaments for buildings and their people, which are intended as counter-memorials to events in our colonial history. Her practice explores the understanding, interpretation, and purpose of ornament in the socio-historical context of Aotearoa New Zealand.
She is guided by her relationship with place, buildings, and processes of decay, the work emerging from attempts to problematise colonisation and settlement here by recasting familiar objects in an unfamiliar light. The employment of repetitive, cumulative processes sits closely with the subject matter, resulting in work imbued with a sense of discomfort.
