Embroidered Art Brooches with Tanvi Kant
Join textile artist Tanvi Kant in this relaxed and informal workshop to create playful embroidered brooches.
In this workshop, you will:
Experiment with various combinations of colours, shapes and textures
Make expressive hand-stitches on textile remnants
Create tactile, layered fabric collages with a range of textile materials
Work with simple metal wire shapes to add structure to your brooch
Create at least one finished piece of embroidered textile jewellery
Enjoy a light lunch of pastries and cake provided by local independent bakery Norfolk Street Bakery
During the break, get the chance to look inside 186 Gywdir Street (optional)
You will be encouraged to respond to and work instinctively with a variety of materials, colours and textures. Practical demonstrations and samples presented by Tanvi will show how readily available materials can be transformed with unashamedly simple techniques into small works of wearable textile art. Throughout the day, as you try out your own individual approaches, you will be supported to uncover your own personal language.
Suitable for all levels, no prior experience in embroidery necessary. Please remember to bring your reading glasses if you require them to view close details.
All essential materials and sewing tools will be provided. You are welcome to bring your own sewing kit with threads and fabric remnants, particularly from clothing that is no longer worn or any off-cuts from your own textile projects.
All workshop proceeds go towards paying workshop leaders, maintaining David Parr House and our artistic programme.
About Tanvi Kant
Tanvi Kant is an interdisciplinary artist based in East Sussex, UK. She works with primarily reclaimed materials, transforming them through repetitive hand processes using minimal tools. Her practice spans tactile sculpture, participatory installations, textile jewellery, collage and assemblage, often exploring themes of memory, materiality and the multiple possibilities of form.
Guided by the intrinsic qualities of her materials, Tanvi uses simple techniques such as wrapping, coiling, knotting, layering and hand-stitching to create organic, rhythmic forms. Her British–Gujarati heritage informs her work, with memories of ritual, adornment, food culture and language resurfacing as signifiers of cultural and bodily memory.
Tanvi has extensive experience teaching across adult, further and higher education and frequently works with families and community groups. Since graduating in 2005, she has exhibited, taught and undertaken residencies internationally, and her work is held in the public collection at Touchstones Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire.
