Known for their distinctive mark-making and textile backgrounds, contemporary artists Kitty Horton & Claudia Mazzotta have teamed up to lead this exploratory and engaging workshop, offering insight into their creative processes while guiding you in making your own stitched multimedia artwork.
This hands-on session will introduce a range of experimental techniques, paired with complementary mark-making finishes. Participants will learn to attach organic shapes and textures using iron-on and stitched fabrics, transfer imagery onto fabric, experiment with crayon markings, and explore spontaneous embroidery with thread.
Together, we’ll create multi-layered compositions, bringing them to resolution through key design elements such as line, shape, and color. By the end of the workshop, participants will take home their own stitched multimedia artwork stretched on an A6 canvas, along with additional test swatches for further exploration.
All materials and refreshments are provided. BYO fabrics and thread are optional.
About your hosts
Kitty Horton
Kitty completed a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) in 2013 and a Graduate Diploma in Education (Senior years) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2014. Kitty actively participates in the arts industry with public art projects, workshops, residencies and vocational teaching. Her multi-disciplinary artworks have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. She has private clients and collectors in Australia, New Zealand and France.
Claudia Mazzotta
Claudia’s multidisciplinary practice is anchored by an experimental textile process. Her work consists of hand stitching on old fabrics (often several centuries old) these textiles have been collected from various origins. With each stitch made meticulously by hand, Claudia engraves stories of life onto textiles, rejecting the structured tradition of embroidery. She considers her needle and thread to be drawing tools. Mazzotta begins with studies of the intended subject using various mediums. Knowing that repetition will allow for intimacy and the unexpected to take hold. Mazzotta sees the structure of her work as an investigation of ‘the intangible’.
Workshop: Saturday, March 22 · 2 – 5pm
