Dear Agnes - Creative workshop ‘Remnants’ with Jane Bartier

In this workshop you will hand manipulate weathered tree guards to inscribe your own sense of Agnes Dene’s planting challenge. Material at hand forms part of Jane’s approach as an artist who weaves. Jane has planted many trees in Wada wurrung Country and in returning to the plantings, the weathering of the tree guard redescribes new lines and material shifts in this action.

 

The tree ‘guards’ open, and in a short workshop, create their own map or landscape. The workshop supports participants to record their own response -with further manipulation; words; drawing; or weaving with this material as well as twines that Jane will supply.

 

Jane is an artist who explores ‘outside’, off loom and off track with particular intrigue in the movement of water that takes the body into seen and unseen places.

 

Materials will be available, but you are also invited to bring your own if you wish. 

 

Bookings essential (limited spaces): Book Now

 

Find out more about Jane:  www.janebartier.com

 

This event is held as part of the 'Dear Agnes' contemporary public art program featuring site-responsive works by 12 artists and collectives for nine days over three weeks (Friday 10 March – Sunday 26 March 2023) at the Truganina Explosives Reserve, Altona.

The projects artworks and public programming pay homage to local landscape-inspired themes and 'A Forest for Australia' (1998), a land sculpture by one of the world's leading environmental artists, New York-based Agnes Denes at the Greater Western Water site on Queen Street, Altona Meadows.

'Dear Agnes' is presented by Hobsons Bay City Council in partnership with Deakin University, RMIT University and Greater Western Water.

 

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Location

Truganina Explosive Reserve, Queen Street, Altona, 3018, View Map