Coil Weaving Workshop
11:30am – 1:30pm Sunday 28 September 2025
Coil Weaving Workshop
Aunty Rosalind Sailor and Michona Warria | $60 - $80
Coil baskets woven by Clare Jaque Vasquez. Photograph: Amanda Galea.
Join exhibiting artists Aunty Rosalind Sailor and Michona Warria for an introduction to raffia weaving. Participants will learn coiling techniques and create a small woven basket to take home. The workshop will be held in Umbrella’s gallery space, alongside the woven artworks on display.
Suitable for beginners. All materials and equipment provided.
Woven Together: Undivided We Rise is on display 19 September – 2 November 2025.
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Umbrella Members $60 | Full Price $80
Limited to 15 spaces (ages 15+) | Bookings close on the Friday prior to the Workshop Day at 4pm. | The workshops will take place in Umbrella’s downstairs studio at 408 Flinders St. | All bookings subject to Umbrella's workshop and public programs booking policy.
Aunty Rosalind Sailor is a Kuku Yalanji and Waanyi woman. She has a background in Cultural arts and managing events, workshops, administration and performances. Aunty Ros has worked in the Gurambilbarra / Townsville community for over 30 years in community, arts and Culture as an artist, Cultural advisor, and advocate for First Nations art, theatre and performance. Aunty Ros is a member of Professional Arts North Queensland (PANQ) and Townsville City Council’s Arts & Culture Advisory Committee (ACAC). She is also a member of the Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural (TATSIC) Reference Group for The Museum of Tropical Queensland.
Michona Warria is a proud Kuku-Yalanji, Waanji, Kalkadoon and Torres Strait Island (Mabuiag Island) woman, artist and performer. Michona graduated from the Aboriginal Centre of Performing Arts in Meanjin / Brisbane in 2018, having appeared in their mid-year and end-of-year shows, Lovers Anonymous, Trojan Woman, Awakening and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has worked with Digital Youth Arts, performing in their production of All That Remains as a part of the Valley Fiesta 2018. In 2019, Michona was successfully selected for the Solid Ground Internship program with Belvoir Theatre, working on the production Winyanboga Yurringa. She is currently a part of Big Eye Theatre as a performer and Cultural practitioner, performing in shows such as Dungurri Nya Nya Ngarri Bi Nya (2021) and Gundil Released (2024). In 2024 she attended Woven Together hosted by Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, where she extender her knowledge and confidence through weaving. She has since had her work featured in the Art Expo presented by Big Eye Theatre.
Images: Aunty Rosalind Sailor (above) and Michona Warria (below). Photographs courtesy of the artists.
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Acknowledgements
Umbrella is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments. | Umbrella is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. | Townsville City Council is a funding partner of Umbrella's program.
