Weaving with Nature Workshop with Christina Darras

Name: Weaving with Nature Workshop with Christina Darras
Start: 2025-10-18T12:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-10-18T15:00:00+11:00
Location: Mystik River

Schedule

Sat Oct 18 2025 at 12:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

Mystik River | Southbank, VI

Learn to design and weave colourful thread into small 3D sculptures that sit with — and around — natural branch forms.
About this Event

About the Workshop

Weaving with Nature is a guided, intimate workshop that explores how line, colour and rhythm can wrap and activate natural objects. Using fallen sticks collected from trees as a structural loom, you’ll learn simple design principles and step-by-step weaving techniques to build small sculptural works that feel both ritual and playful.

Open to all ages and skill levels — no previous weaving experience required. Perfect for makers, nature-lovers, artists curious about three-dimensional textile work, or anyone who enjoys slow, material-led making.

Spaces limited to 8 — book early to secure your spot and spend an afternoon weaving, grounded in material and place.

About Your Host
Christina Darras is an interdisciplinary artist and a jewellery designer of Athenian Greek origin, currently residing and working from Melbourne. Christina works with many mediums, including drawing, painting, installations, and embroidery. She enjoys making with her hands, and considers making her thinking process. She is addicted to colour (having fallen into a fountain of colour as a toddler and swallowed lots of rainbow water, colour is in her DNA), which is excitingly apparent in her creations.

She has studied drawing and painting at Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France and printmaking at Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London, UK. In Athens, she is represented by Genesis Gallery and has worked with the Benaki Museum for the past 17 years, covering an area from ancient to contemporary art and culture. Christina has also sold her jewellery to Harvey Nichols London, Barney’s New York, and Collette in Paris. In Melbourne, she has collaborated with Crafts Victoria, Boom Gallery, Wangaratta Regional Gallery, Kiitos Living by design, and Kingston Arts, showing artwork and jewellery. She has recently completed a master in contemporary art at Victoria College of Arts.

More info about Christina Darras:
https://christinadarras.com