Natalya Hughes: Tufting workshop

In this workshop you will create your own textile work to take home using the punch needle tufting technique.

Natalya will lead you through some of the techniques and processes she has employed to create custom textile works in The Interior.

Have some fun designing your own motif to tuft, extracting imagery from your own experiences, in conversation with the artist.

All materials are supplied, including a tufting kit you can take home with you after the workshop. Bookings are essential as numbers are limited.

The Interior invites audiences into an exaggerated consultation room playfully furnished for psychoanalysis. A key feature of this installation is 7 rugs, hand made by the artist with a tufting gun. Consistent with the content of the overall installation, the symbols and motifs embedded in these objects are drawn from Sigmund Freud’s office and case studies. The textile design developed in this workshop by participants will be a motif drawn from personal experience. Punch needling follows the same technique as the mechanised process of using a tufting gun and is an inexpensive and accessible process to learn.

Image: Punch Needle workshop at the IMA, Brisbane, 2022. Credit: Charlie Hillhouse.

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Location

MPRG, Civic Reserve, Dunns Rd, Mornington, 3199, View Map