You can source many or all of the materials for this course around your own home or neighbourhood, utilising a variety of recycled, discarded or broken objects and materials, especially plastics. We begin with reimagining a found object and then we redesign and remake it into wearable art.
Pennie Jagiello will guide you through developing considerations for design, detail, and scale while exploring finer details to complete a unique neckpiece.
The aim is to be resourceful utilising recycled materials in ways that aim to minimise further waste and to explore the simple things around us that can be repurposed as tools. This leads to a creative practice working as sustainably as possible in a fun and creative challenge.
The following is a guide, but not limited. It’s open to expansion!
- Plastics: e.g. milk bottles, food, beverage or shampoo bottles, old containers or lids, straws, balloon sticks, plastic tubing
- Thread: e.g. sewing thread, embroidery thread, wool, string, rope- these will be used to join, connect and secure materials together, to thread onto, to crochet, or to decorate.
- Other materials: e.g. beads or other desired embellishments
Suitable for anyone wanting to explore and develop creative contemporary jewellery via creative recycling, while enhancing design and fine motor skills, as well as preparing and expanding your creative portfolio.
At the end of the course, you will have created a unique neckpiece with a newfound knowledge for imaginative exploration of recycled and found materials. At the same time you will incorporate a variety of hands-on creative techniques from multiple disciplines, all of which you can continue to develop and expand beyond the course.