Weaving Electronica 1.0

12.30–2.30pm 10 April 2010
Facilitator: Douglas Cartwright
Cost: $15 (limited to 15 participants)
Book: email The Edge or pay on the day

In this workshop you will recycle technology to create interesting and beautiful craft objects out of disused computer components. You’ll learn how to make things like potplant holders and lampshades out of cords and plugs and whatever else is lying around. This project emphasises the beauty in the mundane and the discarded.

About the faciliator

Your workshop facilitator, Douglas Cartwright, is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes his main living building and repairing leadlights. Working with recycled electronica, natural fibres, glass, metal, wood, and found objects, he also produces thought provoking 3D works that explore the permeable boundary between the natural and the man-made world. His work is represented in the collections of Gold Coast City Council, Logan City Council, Bond University and the State Library of Queensland.

Douglas studied ceramics, painting and drawing at Hobart’s Tasmanian School of Art and at a Gold Coast commercial art studio, concentrating on the Australian urban landscape. He held his first solo show of paintings in 1998. He also has an interest in the darker side of the art world, having graduated in 2001 from Bond University with a Master of Criminology degree specialising in art and cultural property crime.

From his under-house studio in Logan, he runs Contemporary Leadlight Designs, a micro-business that specialises in striking contemporary and traditional leadlights.

Filed Under: Design • Sustainability

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