This workshop, which reflects aspects of her own art practice, will explore creating through the medium of tufting. Wool tufting entails passing varied lengths of wool through canvas, either with a punch needle or tufting gun, resulting in a carpeted textile art form.
Over the course of this two-day workshop, you will get the chance to learn the basics of punch needling, to try out different tufting techniques and styles and to experience the use of a machine tufting gun.
You will leave the workshop with your very own hand-needled, punched textile work and square patch samples made from the tufting gun.
Material will be included, but feel welcome to bring along any reference imagery, reflective of your own artistic practice, that you would like to tuft!!
Artist bio:
Asha Murray is a recent graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design. On graduating, she was awarded the Royal Hibernian Academy Graduate Residency Prize as part of the RDS Visual Artist Awards. Since beginning her residency at the RHA Gallery, Asha has exhibited at IMMA and internationally, including at the Irish Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. She has also completed her first solo exhibition, Dropped Frames, in Cork City.
Asha is currently working towards a forthcoming group exhibition at the RHA Gallery, alongside two upcoming solo exhibitions at The 126 Gallery, Galway and Súil Gallery in Ennis, Co. Clare.