Michele Grimston
Textiles
7 + 8 NOVEMBER 2026
Day + Time | Saturday + Sunday | 10am – 4pm
Location | 1/17 Wimmera Street, Harrison ACT 2914
Facilities | EFTPOS accepted
Join Michele Grimston in her studio and relax into a world of slow and meditative textile practice. Michele works with handmade processes including embroidery, tapestry and weaving that require an intensive investment of time and attention. Her open studio will feature a miniature exhibition of recent works, drawings and samples and a studio sale with textile demonstrations throughout the day.
Visitors also have the opportunity to join the studio stitching circle, to sit, stay and create awhile in the company of others and/or learn basic twining and coiling techniques to create a small vessel or jewellery piece. Alternatively, bring along your own creative project to work on.
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Michele Grimston is an artist and community cultural development practitioner based on Ngunnawal Country, Canberra. She is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD at the University of Canberra.
Her work explores slow, meditative textile processes as a way of practicing care and connection for earth, community and spirit. She is interested in building individual and collective rituals of creation which develop the role of these laborious textile processes in our personal, spiritual and social wellbeing. She holds an Honours degree in textile from the Australian National University (2009) and a Masters in Community Cultural Development from the Victorian College of Arts (2014). She has exhibited in Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Canada and her work is held in the collection of Geoscience Australia. Michele has presented participatory, community-engaged works through Rebus and You Are Here and has facilitated large-scale collaborative projects as an artist-in-residence in multiple schools and early learning centres. With over 10 years experience managing community arts and education programs at public galleries, Michele supports artists and the public to build vibrant, connected communities.
Images | Michelle Grimston | Open Studio, 2023 | Photos by Tim Ngo