Re-making

In communities of difference, where cultural and social diversity presents barriers to connection, and public space is trumped by overdevelopment, privatisation and commercialisation, what brings us together? At the heart of this project is an ambition to celebrate and activate textile processes as essential tools for sharing knowledge, continuing cultural practice and creating meaningful connections. Informed by grass-roots urbanism and insurgent approaches to public space, The Auburn Textile and Colour Studio provides community facilities anchored in public engagement and creative community practice, inviting the public to re-interpret, re-define and re-make their public realm.

A public space dedicated to creativity and community, pavilions define smaller outdoor rooms within the walled garden

Craft is an essential tool for sharing of deep knowledge, continuing cultural practice and for creating meaningful connection. Connection between people, but also connection to place, culture and identity.

As part of this project I researched and experimented with various traditions of botanical dyes, creating a library of colours, some belonging to other places and many endemic to Australia.

As a collection, these processes, colours and textiles represent and intertwine Auburn’s culturally diverse community.