Dopamine Dressing: Glamourous

Join artist Louise Meuwissen for Dopamine Dressing: Glamorous. 

This joyous wearable art workshop focuses on up-cycling, personal symbology and free expression. Participants will be guided in a range of textile techniques to transform a humble t-shirt into an absolutely extra party piece utilising vintage embellishments and fabrics from Louise’s personal collection. 

Participants with all levels of experience welcomed and encouraged. All materials provided.

About your teaching artist

Louise Meuwissen works with textiles and found materials to make intricate embroidered paintings, sculptures and wearable art - transforming components of costume and dress into objects imbued with uncanny psychological and spiritual resonances. Her work employs DIY methodologies and craft techniques to blend post-consumer materials – high and low - with time, care, and attention. Meuwissen’s practice considers the complex individual and collective relationships we form with objects, and how they come to embody meaning and value; carry energetic, symbolic, and intellectual charge; and become anchors for thoughts and beliefs. Her work is informed by adornment and decoration, and the fluxing of fashion - underpinned by discarding and collecting, and the interplay between labour and luxury. Her practice considers the intangible, unknowable and mortality, informed by eclectic research investigating devotion, the Sublime, hoarding, storytelling and mythology. 

Image: Louise Meuwissen, All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2023 (detail). Photography Henry Trumble