Sewing & Mending Drop-in Workshop
Led by Denise Zygadlo
Saturday 16 November 2024
2-4pm
Drop-in, no booking required
Free, all welcome
Artist Denise Zygadlo is back at Cample for another informal mending and sewing drop-in workshop this November.
Join Denise to learn and share techniques to give your clothes a new lease of life – bring along your mending, darning and patching, and swap ideas to jazz up a favourite old garment.
Drawing on Chiara Camoni’s use of recycling and repurposing in her exhibition currently at Cample, Denise will bring a personal stash of beads, shells, sequins and buttons, which you can experiment with – to enhance, disguise or cover up, and give your garments a new lease of life.
What to bring: Please bring along a garment that needs patching or altering that you would like to fix or add a new touch to. There will be some tools and materials such as needles and threads available, but feel free to also bring your own.
Teas and coffees will be on hand!
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.