Prepare your own Burial Wrap Workshop
Start preparation of a burial wrap for yourself.
Why would you make a burial wrap? When it came to my mother’s funeral, the clothes I had prepared seemed so wrong. It was her best outfit but I felt so uncomfortable cremating her in synthetic fibre. Perhaps I was being hypersensitive but when I shared this feeling with the funeral director, he suggested a natural cotton wrap instead. I found this idea to be immediately comforting. This workshop provides a space to start thinking about your own death and start preparation of a burial wrap for yourself.
Natural and organic material will be provided but please bring anything you might want to sew or incorporate into the fabric. If there is any natural material special to you, we can work this into the material preparation process.
About your tutor
Therese Phillips has a life-long fascination with people and their stories. Moving from Sydney to The Kimberley in 2009 afforded her both the time and opportunity to explore her creative curiosity. Experimentation with photography, painting, clay, ephemeral art, and writing became the foundation stones of her current eclectic art practice.
Observance of her own mother’s protracted death called into question Therese’s relationship to mortality, death and dying.
Therese moved to Gympie 6 years ago and is currently writing a ficto-memoir of the time she spent in the Kimberley.
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