Join artist Michele Elliot for a drop-in experience that invites you to rest within a handwoven shroud carrier.
Guided by Michele, participants are softly wrapped in a shroud and laid in the woven carrier. Guests may arrive and depart at any time, staying for as long or as briefly as they wish.
Using only natural materials – such as cloth, flowers and organic elements – this experience reflects practices of shrouded burial and cremation.
This intimate encounter offers a rare opportunity to reflect on mortality, engage with ritual and consider the shared journey of life and death with openness and care.
Featuring
Michele Elliot is a visual artist, educator and occasional writer, living and working on Wodi Wodi Country. Her practice spans textiles, sculpture, installation and drawing. Michele works with material relationships to explore human frailty, place, and memory. Her most recent exhibition What is held, is here at Wollongong Art Gallery, 2024, received Creative Australia funding. Michele’s artwork is held in public collections including Wollongong Art Gallery, Artbank, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the USNW Library. Her practice extends to community projects and education, including Tender Funerals, the Illawarra Women’s Trauma Recovery Centre and The Friends’ Plot at Wollongong Cemetery, as well as textiles and shroud making workshops. Michele is currently engaged on a project for The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, at the University of Western Australia on the theme of care and collections.
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