Saturday 22 November 2025
1-3pm
Make-Do and Mend Workshop
With Denise Zygadlo
Free but booking required
Please bring along a garment that needs darning, patching or altering that you would like to fix. Some materials will be available.
We are delighted to welcome artist Denise Zygadlo back to Cample for another ‘Make-Do and Mend’ workshop – join us for a relaxed mending and sewing session.
Over the session, Denise will share a number of mending techniques, including darning, patching, turning a collar, turning a sheet, visible mending and transforming something old into something new.
Responding to our current exhibition, Keepsake by Amalia Pica, Denise will also include embroidery as a way of mending, and she will chat about her own approach to mending as an extension of her art practice.
What to bring: Please bring along a garment or object that needs darning, patching or altering. There will be some tools and materials such as needles and threads available, but feel free to bring your own.
Refreshments will be available.
Denise Zygadlo lives and works in Dumfriesshire in Scotland. Her work includes drawing, printing, performance and installation. Trained in printed textiles, Denise worked with several design studios, before moving from London to Dumfries in 1980. She shows her work in Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh and the Scottish Society of Artists. She has exhibited widely, recently showing work in exhibitions in Peebles and Galashiels.
Denise has said: ‘I trained as a textile designer, but it is only more recently that I realised the importance fabric has played throughout my life and the emotional connections we all have with cloth – from the moment we are first wrapped or swaddled to our last windings on our final journey. So cloth is usually a focus for my work, whether through small intimate drawings or large detailed drawings exploring body shape and pattern.’
