PREVIOUSLY PRECIOUS TRASH WORKSHOP/LECTURES AT:
Form/Design Center, Textilmuseet Borås, Marabouparkens Konsthall, Växjö Konsthall, Svenska Institutet, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum Moscow, H&M Istanbul, Handarbetets Vänner, Österlenskolan för Konst & Design, Sörmlands Museum, Linköpings Universitet,
Retuna Återbruksgalleria, Hemslöjden, Beckmans College of Design, Nääs Konsthantverk, Tekniska Museet, Konsthantverkscentrum,
Formex Design Fair and schools, librarys etc...
JOHANNA TÖRNQVIST
Johanna Törnqvist is making jewellery and garments out of recycled textile and plastic material. She is using trash and waste from her own, family or friends consumption of daily waste and packaging material. By using this kind of material she makes the unprecious material precious by the way she handles it. She´s refining waste, pleated and stitched together with the same precision as haute couture to make a statement about our daily consumption and to arouse questions about sustainability and environmental issues.With her work she also wants to make a contribution to the ongoing debate about the unsustainable fashion industry.
Johanna Törnqvist graduated from Studio Berçot in Paris in 1990 and is also educated in New York, Japan and Stockholm and has been working with fashion, textile handicraft and ceramics, as well as education. She has a long experience from teaching and has been running many courses and workshops.
PRECIOUS TRASH WORKSHOP
How can we use our resources nearby and use the material that we have a lot of in modern society when we make craft? In today's consumption society, it is perhaps not wool, wood and clay that we have plenty of, but our trash that we can reuse and create new from. In this workshop we refine our trash and create decorative accessories of our own garbage.
The workshop is part of Project Precious Trash which is a project about clothes and consumption initiated by Johanna Törnqvist.
https://www.facebook.com/ProjectPreciousTrash?fref=ts
Introduction with pictures and talk about Johanna's work and about sustainability issues in general. Introduction to various materials and what techniques you can use with different materials. All kinds of trash material will be used as; plastic bags, coffee bags, pasta bags, crisp bags, mesh bags for fruit and vegetable, packaging material, gift ribbons, cord, lace etc. After the introduction you can create your own accessory or garment. All materials are included, but you are of course welcome to bring your own trash!
BOOKING & PRICE LIST: yohannamaria@hotmail.com
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PRECIOUS TRASH WORKSHOP - VIDEO-------------------ALL-RUSSIAN DECORATIVE ART MUSEUM------------TEXTILMUSEET/TEXTILE FASHION CENTER----KÄRRTORP SECONDARY SCHOOL