Photographic Exhibition - My Northumberland -
Alnwick Playhouse Gallery 3 June - 4 July
Exhibition of photographs of "My Northumberland." The personal responses of local people of all ages
Weaving the Landscape Workshops - Anna Corbett
Workshop with Wild Plants
Alnwick Playhouse Gallery 5th & 15th June 10.00 - 1.00
Materials supplied
Renowned local artist Anna Corbett will give 2 workshops and 2 talks on her artistic response to the natural world in the run up to What a Wonderful World Festival weekend while the Photographic Exhibition My Northumberland is on show in Alnwick Playhouse Gallery
WORKSHOP - Materials supplied
Thursday 6 June, 10-1
Saturday 15 June, 10-1
maximum participants 6
Stringmaking with wild plants
Making string is one of the oldest human technologies. In this workshop we will use a range of wild, local plants to explore stringmaking techniques, create some samples and find out about ways to create baskets and other items with string. We will explore what makes plants suitable for string, as well as when to harvest and how to process them.
Tickets £30 or £20 for those receiving benefit. From Playhouse Box Office.
Numbers limited - 6 per workshop
Weaving the Landscape - TALK / DEMONSTRATION
Alnwick Playhouse Studio
Wednesday 5 June, 10.00 - 11.00
Monday, 17 June, 2.00 - 3.00
Anna Corbett is a basket maker with a background in organic gardening who loves making string, and who works with local plants. In this session Anna talk about her work, how she became interested in the history and practice of making string and the influences that have affected her work. She will bring samples to examine and demonstrate string making techniques.
Free
About Anna Corbett
Anna is a basketmaker who loves making string, and who works almost
entirely with plants local to where she lives in Northumberland. These
may be wild or cultivated, from moors and meadows, hedgerows,
woods and gardens. They include leaves and stems, grasses, rushes, roots, moss, straw and bark. The plants all have their stories to tell and directions to follow.
Anna has come to basketry after many years of organic gardening. She
brings a deep love of plants, and respect for the natural world, to her
work, which is rooted in and responsive to the landscape. She is
fascinated by the relationships between people and plants and sees
basketry as a way of exploring and deepening these connections.
Anna’s workshops offer an opportunity to explore some of the traditions
of basketry with plant fibres, and become more familiar with the nature
of the plants that grow around us.
Anna is a member of the Basketmakers’ Association,
Scottish Basketmakers’ Circle and the Northumbria Basketry Group
See examples of Anna’s work on Instagram: @stringmakeranna