Precious Pets
Embroidery workshop with artist Joanne Nethercote to stitch and celebrate the animals in your life.
Precious Pets : Animal embroidery
Presented by Joanne Nethercote, Carolyn Hawkins and Arts Project Australia
Date: Saturday 19th September 2026, 1:00–3:00pm
Venue: Arts Project Australia gallery, Collingwood Yards, Level 1, Perry Street Building, Collingwood
FREE Materials provided
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Join Arts Project Australia (APA) artist Joanne Nethercote to reflect on a special connection you share with an animal in your life, before embroidering their likeness onto fabric. Share stories about fauna you are fond of while you sew. Whether your friend is furry or amphibious, this is your chance to immortalise their essence in a series of stitches.
This workshop takes place within the exhibition, Animal Gift, curated by Gok-Lim Finch.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Joanne Nethercote is an emerging artist working with acrylic on paper and embroidery. She playfully depicts cats in both realistic and surreal settings. Her palette is saturated and bold; paint thickly applied and stitching generously dense. With a talent for lovingly capturing the subtleties of their character, movement, and emotion, Joanne deftly renders the endearing clownishness of our feline friends.
Nethercote has worked at Arts Project Australia since 2018 and has exhibited in a number of group shows in Melbourne. Her work is held in private collections.
ACCESSIBILITY
Arts Project Australia gallery can be accessed via 30A Perry Street. This entrance is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground. Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.
Collingwood Yards offers a single accessible parking bay, located in the entryway via 35C Johnston Street vehicle entrance. Limited parking is available in the surrounding area.
Collingwood Yards is a 10 minute walk from Victoria Park station and a 5 minute walk from the Johnston Street stop on the 86 tram.
The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On Level 1 and Level 2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.
More details are available at: https://collingwoodyards.org/plan-your-visit/accessibility
If you require any additional information or would like to get in touch please email us at: [email protected]
Image credit: Joanne Nethercote, Untitled, 2022