Dobell's Lake - A Felting Adventure

Workshop overview:

Join Lake Macquarie based artist, Amanda Donohue in this one-day workshop to learn the fine craft of felting.

Donohue will introduce participants to the principles and techniques of felting and guide you through the process of creating your own soft sculpture vessel, while taking inspiration from the surrounding landscape and lake views.

Participants will take home their felted vessel on the day.

Note: This workshop requires a minimum number of participants to run. If the minimum is not met your ticket will be refunded.

Workshop key information:

• 4 hour workshop
• 10:00am to 2:30pm (30min break at 12:30 for lunch).
• BYO lunch to eat on the terrace or order from the onsite cafe. We recommend preordering.
• Materials included. Participants are required to bring their own towel for use in workshop.
• The workshop will be held in the MAC marquee. Please dress for the weather
• This beginner-friendly workshop is suitable for participants over the age of 16 years.
• Participants are required to wear closed-in shoes.
• Strictly limited capacity. Book your ticket to avoid disappointment.
• This workshop requires a minimum number of participants to run. If the minimum is not met your ticket will be refunded.
• For enquiries please email mac@lakemac.nsw.gov.au

Tickets:

$90 per person (includes booking fee)

$81 per Lake Arts Member (includes booking fee)

Electronic check-in at the MAC yapang visitor services desk. No need to print your tickets.

About the Artist:

Donohue has been a practising artist for about 25 years – working as a printmaker and textile artist.
She creates etchings, lino prints, dry points as well as unique hand-sewn or dyed items including scarves, runners, vessels (bowls, vases), bags, and coasters. A lifetime love of textiles and interest in the ‘genderisation’ of embroidery often see her combining mediums, printing onto textiles or hand stitching into prints.

Donohue's practice is influenced by multiple themes including domesticity, innocence and popular culture. She investigates the connection between these themes and images or items from her own personal history – an event, a person or place, physical or ephemeral. Activities, thoughts, items reoccur daily, weekly, and monthly. Repetition makes for familiarity and meditation. Patterns form and life continues.

Donohue is a member of the Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, the Make Space Collective and Art-in-Sync. She works teaches printmaking and textile techniques, works part-time for a regional arts organisation and, in 2023, was a mentor for Newcastle Art Space