Embroidering Banksy’s “Girl with Balloon”
Course Description:
This course is available for very advanced students only, who have completed at least the two most recent advanced courses of embroidery with Uisce and for those students who attended Fundamentals of Embroidery in Spring 2025.
The participants will work on an embroidered interpretation of the “Girl with Balloon” street artwork by Banksy. The students may embroider any other art piece by Banksy or other artist, after consultation with the tutor about the format and the techniques involved. If you wish, you can work on more than one!
Embroidering the piece by Banksy is a perfect challenge to change our way of thinking about embroidery as a very traditional, sometimes an old-fashioned, craft of embellishment. The projects can be interpreted in many ways and the students are encouraged to find their own style of expressing the piece through embroidery. The tutor will be working on her own interpretation of the “Girl with Balloon”, we will be exploring it together.
The students will need to provide their own materials and tools for the course. The teacher will provide the pattern and also support via email and WhatsApp through the entire course.
More about the piece: www.banksyexplained.com/issue/girl-with-balloon-graffiti-legend
Course Day & Time: Thursday evening 7.30 – 9.30
Start Date: 17/09/26 Autumn 2026 Programme
Cost: €110 (The students will need to provide their own materials and tools for the course.)
Course Format: In class with tutor (Maximum of 16 students)
Duration: 10 weeks
Enrolment: Opens mid August 2026. You can enrol online then by clicking on the Enrol Here button.
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).
Education:
- Master Degree in Musicology, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland
- Journeyman in artistic weaving, People’s University in Turno, Poland
Online gallery: www.behance.net/uisceartef3b
Facebook: UisceArt
Instagram: uiscesart
Blog: www.tangledinfibres.blogspot.com
E-mail: uiscestitch@gmail.com
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