13/05/2024
Our beautiful "Noa Rose" and "Blue Lady" will be creating the deco for a stage ...follow this space for more!
Weaverbirds Collective
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Weaverbirds Collective is an internationally based art group that collaborates in making Land Art in
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Weaverbirds
Traveling together creating ‘nests’ wherever the land urges us to do so.
Weaverbirds Collective is a group of multidisciplinary artists who have found a relatable fondness for sticks. As funny as it sounds, it is completely true. Just like the weaver bird, we search for weavable, natural materials to create our ‘nests’. We create Land Art installations, where weaving is our main game. Growing into organically, feminine formed shapes with a practice that is too intense for one to manage, creating collectively we can achieve new heights within our art.
This joy sparked within us in 2018 where we found ourselves building artworks together in South Africa’s Tankwa Karoo Desert, building artworks Skeleton Leaf of Change alongside Fine Balance for the special blank canvas that is AfrikaBurn art festival. The woven project then went on to feature as part of the Tankwa Artscape residency’s Land Art exhibit for its fundamental eco-design structure which forgoes the use of power tools and was handwoven entirely with wattle trees. Thus Weaverbirds Collective was born and has been nurtured group project since.
When we work with nature's resources this is where we surrender to the natural creation in site-specificness and materials. Using hardwood such as old oak branches, bending wattle trees, and the satisfyingly flexible wicker/willow sticks the piece takes its form in the way the material allows it. Weaving with wattle is a meditative practice that has been used by the South African bushman communities, and can be seen used in land artists' work such as Kim Goodwin, whom of which we have taken much inspiration and tips from. The plant is an invasive species to South Africa, Portugal, Italy, and many more places, knowing that we deforest it giving us the pleasure of engaging with the material from uprooting it from the grounds to twisting it into the framework of the art presented.
