with Katy Cottrell

Saturday 10 October (SOLD OUT)
and
Saturday 7 November (BOOK NOW)
10:30am - 12:30pm
The Hub
$15

Join artist Katy Cottrell in a hands on workshop to learn the craft of wooden marquetry.* This is a beautiful technique dating back centuries, yet here modernised with latest technology.

The workshop will involve cutting and chiselling wooden sections, using pre etched models and provide tips and techniques for laser etching. Make a small piece to take home. 

*Marquetry: thin sheets of wood or melamine, cut into intricate patterns according to a preconceived design and affixed to the flat surfaces of furniture.

To book:

Email: sascha.perfect@wcc.govt.nz

More information:

Her exhibition Furniture Memoirs is on in the gallery 19 Sept -10 October.

Artist Katy Cottrell’s new exhibition Furniture Memoirs delves into the untold and forgotten stories of trees used in the production of domestic furniture.

Cottrell portrays the intrinsic value of old furniture through the integration of modern marquetry and craft. Her artistic interventions reinvigorate discarded furniture to become objects of beauty. The ecological history of diverse timbers is revealed through inlaid and embroidered imagery on the furniture pieces. Storm-felled rewarewa and 40,000 year old swamp kauri, a remnant of a fallen forest, are given new life as a coffee table adorned with native taonga. A tattered antique mahogany chair, damaged beyond usability is salvaged with embroidery portraying the spindle weed that shrouded its landfill bound frame.