The Australian Tapestry Workshop is delighted to host Artist in Residence Deborah Prior and the creation of her new collaborative textile artwork ‘One Wound / One Repair’ as part of the 2019 Craft Cubed festival.

Prior will work on-site at the ATW, transforming vintage woollen blankets into new textile artworks. Functional, symbolic and emotive, blankets share an intimate relationship to the body – signalling our vulnerable states of sleep and illness, and ultimately reflecting our own mortality through their marking, staining and wear and tear.

Participants are invited to help Prior in the making of “One Wound / One Repair” by participating in a cyclical stitching project. You will be asked to repair a small woollen hole (‘wound’) in a blanket left by a previous participant, using your choice of salvaged fabrics collected by the artist and yarns from the ATW. You will then cut your own hole in the blanket, safe in the knowledge that a future visitor will repair this for you.

Time: 10am - 5pm daily 
Where: Australian Tapestry Workshop
262 - 266 Park Street
South Melbourne VIC 3205
Admission: Free. Drop-in welcome.