Sunday 25 August 2024
2-4pm
Darning & Mending Drop-in Workshop
Led by Denise Zygadlo
Drop-in, no booking required
Free, all welcome
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 Dumfriesshire-based artist Denise Zygadlo back to Cample for a ‘Make-do and Mend’ drop-in workshop. Over the afternoon, 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.
Denise will also be talking about her approach to mending and to garments, as an extension of her artistic practice, drawing upon Orsola De Castro’s book, Loved Clothes Last (2021; Penguin Life).
What to bring: Please bring along a garment that needs darning, patching or altering that you would like to fix. There will be some tools and materials such as needles and threads available, but feel free to also 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, and is currently 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.