Please join Dr Rebecca Mayo on an extraordinary workshop to uncover the hidden colour palette of Gawari Mada (Holt Microforest). 

All ages and abilities welcome to join this participatory plant dyeing workshop and work together using a selection of plants growing on site to develop a unique colour palette of the forest!

About Rebecca Mayo:
Rebecca Mayo is an Australian artist. She is a Lecturer in the Printmedia and Drawing Workshop at the School of Art & Design, Australian National University. Trained in printmaking, she draws upon its performative attributes of repetition and re-iteration. She is particularly interested in how such repetitive processes might articulate or correspond with ways of thinking, being and acting. Similarly, the repetitive (and sometimes meditative) act of walking has become increasingly central to her practice.

Mayo principally examines relations and interactions between urban ecologically significant sites and people. Most recently she has been reactivating superseded printing and dyeing techniques using dye extracted from plants gathered at urban restoration sites (such as her local creek, The Merri, in Melbourne’s north). The resulting textiles are installed in situ or are re-introduced to the sites via her walking body or via the bodies of fellow restoration volunteers.

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This workshop is part of Living City: people, plants and place,  a three-year visual arts and design program working with Canberra’s suburban communities and many urban natural environments. The program encourages accessible and inclusive, art-based engagement with urban spaces while addressing climate change, urban biodiversity, well-being and conservation. More.

This program is funded by ArtsACT and the ANU School of Art & Design.