Join Arts Project Australia (APA) artist Joanne Nethercote to reflect on a special connection you share with an animal in your life, before embroidering their likeness onto fabric. Share stories about fauna you are fond of while you sew. Whether your friend is furry or amphibious, this is your chance to immortalise their essence in a series of stitches.
This workshop takes place within the exhibition, Animal Gift, curated by Gok-Lim Finch.
About the Artist
Joanne Nethercote is an emerging artist working with acrylic on paper and embroidery. She playfully depicts cats in both realistic and surreal settings. Her palette is saturated and bold; paint thickly applied and stitching generously dense. With a talent for lovingly capturing the subtleties of their character, movement, and emotion, Joanne deftly renders the endearing clownishness of our feline friends.
Nethercote has worked at Arts Project Australia since 2018 and has exhibited in a number of group shows in Melbourne. Her work is held in private collections.
The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.
Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.
Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.
Getting Here
The closest tram stops to Collingwood Yards are:
Route 86 towards Waterfront City/Docklands: Johnston St/Smith St (Stop 19)
Route 86 towards Bundoora: Johnston St/Smith St (Stop 19)
The nearest Bus stop is the corner of Johnston St and Smith St on Routes 200, 207 and Night Bus Route 966.
The corner of Johnston St and Smith St is approximately a 300 meter, 5 minute walk to and from Collingwood Yards.
The closest train stop is Victoria Park on the Hurstbridge and Mernda lines.
Victoria Park Station is approximately a 700 metre, 10 minute walk to and from Collingwood Yards. Victoria Park Station is elevated and access to the platforms is either via a ramp or lift.
Collingwood Yards offers a single accessible parking bay, located in the entryway via 35C Johnston Street vehicle entrance. Limited parking is available in the surrounding area.
Animal Gift is a group exhibition about how we look at animals. What do we see when we look at them? And what does that say about how we see ourselves?
