Embroidering Natural & Urban Landscapes

Course Description:

This course is available for very advanced students only, who completed the “Plant your own garden with stitches” course in the 2023 spring semester.
You will choose between natural and urban landscape projects or, if you wish to do a bit more homework, you could do both projects simultaneously. You will be learning how to interpret the lines and surfaces of a landscape with variety of stitches combined into
structures. Different textures of stitches can wonderfully express different areas of a landscape: grassy hills, meadows, fields, water, rock formations and wisps of clouds. In the case of an urban landscape you will discover many ways of featuring buildings and other architectural constructions of the project via stitching. The students will need to provide their own materials and tools for the course. The students and the tutor will decide together what kind of natural and urban landscape we will be working on over the 10 week course.

Course Day & Time: Thursday evenings 7.30 – 9.30pm

Start Date: 21/09/23

Cost: €110

Course Format: In class with tutor

Duration: 10 weeks – Maximum of 12 students in class

Enrolment: You can enrol online by clicking on the Easy Payments Plus button. Enrolment opens on the 9th of August at 10am.

Tutor: Uisce Jakubczyk

I am a weaver, embroiderer and fibre arts teacher from Poland, living in Ireland since 2004. My textile art has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania and Taiwan. I am a recipient of several awards in Ireland and abroad.

My main focus in my art practice is on minimal woven art and medieval styles, techniques and images in embroidery.

I have been teaching various fibre arts courses and workshops from 2013 in Co. Dublin, Dublin City, Co. Louth, Co. Wicklow and Co. Down. In 2018/2019 I was working for Creative Spark, Dundalk, providing embroidery workshops for community projects. Since 2016 I teach various workshops at the Séamus Ennis Arts Centre in Naul. In 2020 I started teaching fibre arts courses at Malahide Community School.

I am an author of a large scale tapestry Women of Fingal (completed in March 2021) funded by Creative Ireland and commissioned by Fingal County Council.

I practice historical fencing with sabre, longsword and sword & buckler as a member of HEMA Ireland (the national Historical European Martial Arts federation).

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