NIKKI PARMENTER Pop-Up Workshop @ Janome Centre (STOCKPORT)

Description

Venue: JANOME UK TRAINING CENTRE, Stockport, SK6 2SP

Date: Tuesday 5th August

Time: 9.30 - 15.30

FEE: £ 100

An Inspiring Practical Day Learning and practicing with Textiles Artist NIKKI PARMENTER

This pop-up workshop is open to anyone interested in creative textiles. A full day spent with the amazing Nikki Parmenter learning how she develops and creates her wonderful, imaginative artworks and how you can easily do this yourself or with your students :)

Create a fantastic "Small World" similar to the one shown, using fused fabric, free machine embroidery and mixed media.

Join Nikki Parmenter to make a fabulous fused fabric flower, bird, fish, butterfly, elephant or frog. This will be thread painted and padded. Make a circular "environment" for your creature to be displayed in using an inspiring array of materials from which you will fashion leaves, flowers, corals and seaweed. There will be an emphasis on colour and composition, and each participant will receive individual guidance on these formal elements. A string of LED lights will provide a final flourish!

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

1. Experiment with a wide range of exciting media including repurposed materials, fabric manipulation, collage, and wrapping.

2. Improve your free machine embroidery techniques and learn how to transfer a drawing onto a piece of fused fabric.

3. Develop your skills in the creation of a cohesive composition with a well considered colour scheme.

4. Gain the confidence to apply the techniques that you have covered on the course to your own chosen subject matter.

Materials Provided

All the equipment you need are provided including some materials:

Felt / fabrics / netting / safety eye / templates / embellishments / funky foam / wire ring / LED lights / embellishments.

Materials to Bring

You will need to bring a selection of batrik style cotton fabrics to wrap around the wire rings (which are provided); some padding/wadding and some pieces of patterned and plain fabrics (12 inch square) for the background.

This course is aimed at anyone interested in learning new techniques from the artist herself. It is particularly useful for textile and art teachers who are either new to teaching GCSE/A Level Art & Design or those who want to add to their resources by spending a whole day developing exciting new ideas and skills.

What is special about the Nikki Parmenter textiles skills course?

This textiles techniques face-to-face course is an experience that delivers textiles skills, knowledge and understanding. It is a great learning environment which allows you to gain new skills and techniques, showing how these can be incorporated in lesson plans and delivered in a fun, inspiring and engaging way. You can ask questions direct to the course developer/leader, practice skills, create a sketchbook resource for the classroom and network with other teachers.

NIKKI PARMENTER has a BA First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art and an MA. She taught Art full time at Poynton High School, leaving in 2016 to pursue a career in textiles and education.

Based in Cheshire, Nikki's specialises in mixed media / textile artist specialising in large scale pieces incorporating free machine embroidery. She takes her inspiration from a variety of sources and is particularly interested in the way in which ancient societies created a series of visual symbols to represent the things which were important to them. She investigates myth and legend and draws parallels between societies, showing that although many people have different beliefs we are all united by visual iconography.

Nikki has done many workshops in schools and for Textiles Skills Cente, as well as Tea 'N Chat events looking at her work and demoing techniques.

She has exhibited widely both in group and solo shows both in the UK and abroad and has published articles in a number of publications. She also features in Kim Thittichai's book, 'Experimental Textiles' and has won prizes at The Ferens Open, The Potteries Open and the Grosvenor Open Exhibitions.

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COSTS & BOOKING VIA CADEMY: £ 100 / DAY (+ Cademy Fee)

All of the Textile Skills Centre events are ticket only and payable IN ADVANCE. The Textiles Skills Centre uses Cademy to automate the bookings via credit card and cheque/BACS. When you book you will receive by email a booking confirmation and invoice.

PLEASE NOTE your booking confirmation and invoice will be emailed to both the delegate and person purchasing. If you do not receive your ticket it is most commonly caused by typing your email address incorrectly, or it is in your SPAM folder. 

Please check your booking carefully. It is VERY important that your school finance manager supplies your full name and PERSONAL SCHOOL email, so that we are able to send you joining instructions and further details. If we only receive the ‘school office’ email address, we have found in the past that this delays information getting to you or information is not passed on. 

If you have any queries, please email us at: info@textileskillscentre.com, and include your phone number and/or email so that we can contact you easily.