HOME: Craft & Conversation LU Arts worker workshop

As part of the Chaplaincy HOME series, learn to weave with LU artist Holly Sykes. Get creative making a placemat for your favourite food or mug. No experience necessary. All materials provided.  

About the artist:

'I'm Holly, a current Fine Art student at Loughborough, I love sharing the things I've learnt along the way and I aim for this to become an integral part of my practice. One of these things being weaving, which I began to discover during my textiles A level, constructing looms to make the technique accessible to me. I have been adapting these looms to fit my practice as it develops.'

'The outcomes of the workshop aim to remind students of home, acting as a comforting addition to your whitewashed room. You can expect to make, coasters, placemats, wall hangings/room decor, anything that may remind you of home or bring you joy. Textiles has always been associated with the comforts of home, whether it's a teddy bear you've had forever or the blanket your mum crocheted on the couch. If you would like to try out weaving, come along!'

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About the HOME series:

During the Autumn term the Chaplaincy will be hosting a series of events and workshops to help students feel at home at Loughborough. These events are loosely based around research undertaken in the HOME Centre for Doctoral Training at Loughborough University (for more information on their research see: HOME CDT – Harnessing Opportunities for Meaningful Environments (meaningofhome.uk) ). In particular we are seeking to help students reduce and overcome their feelings of homesickness by enabling them to form new emotional connections with their new home at Loughborough, and connect creatively with their previous experiences of home.  Building on the research undertaken by HOME CDT, events will encourage emotional connections by building habits and routines, creating objects with sentimental or practical use and connecting with others through shared activities.