Sewing Stories - Translating Memories into Textile Artwork

Sewing Stories project participants Santosa Fernandez

Project Summary

Sewing Stories is a Community Cultural Development project created for and by local women of the Holroyd LGA in partnership with Holroyd City Council, Arts NSW, Baulkham Hills Holroyd Parramatta Migrant Resource Centre, Holroyd Parramatta Migrant Services, Hewitt House and Fairfield City Museum and Gallery. Through workshops focusing on developing creative textile skills women from diverse cultural backgrounds were given opportunities to share stories of their personal experiences of domestic life in Australia and to create social support networks. The reflections emanating from this process were documented both in a series of translated interviews and photographs, and used as the inspiration for textile artworks. The works and documentation from the workshop process form the materials of a celebratory community exhibition which is on display in Holroyd Council Foyer Exhibition Space until January 2008 and will tour to Fairfield City Museum and Gallery during 2008.

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    • Sewing Stories project participants Santosa Fernandez

      Sewing Stories project participants Santosa Fernandez

    • Sewing Stories project participant: Karuna Atpulhrajan

      Sewing Stories project participant: Karuna Atpulhrajan

    • Sewing Stories project participant: Norma Kimball

      Sewing Stories project participant: Norma Kimball

    • Sewing Stories project participant: Vicky Thornton

      Sewing Stories project participant: Vicky Thornton

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Project Information

Council
Holroyd City Council
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Briallen Lim
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