Workshops
For customised workshops plerase send an enquiry.
Ghost Net Collective workshops are for people who want to learn, collaborate and contribute their work to a large scale piece or installation.
The workshops revolve around large projects for exhibitions and festivals. Each workshop is individually designed for a specific project with peoples skill levels in mind.
Face to face workshops are run in local areas and for national and international participants. The GNC often brings together a community of makers via online engagement.
Workshop
Great Keppel Island 2026
The Capricorn Coast Marine Community Inc. hosted
a teacher workshop on Great Keppel Island with the
Ghost Net Collective. This project was sponsored by
a Qld Government Citizen Science grant.
Teachers from science and arts backgrounds came
together for a day of shared learning where Culture,
Science and Art connected through marine
conservation and community storytelling.
We explored the impacts of marine debris on our local
marine life, culminating a Tiny Turtle workshop.
The day began with a moving Welcome to Country by Woppaburra Traditional Owners, setting the tone for a workshop grounded in inclusivity, collaboration and respect for Country and Sea Country.
We’re all excited to see how this project grows in classrooms and communities over the coming year, especially as students begin contributing to the collaborative marine conservation art exhibition planned for Easter next year.
Images by CCMC
Previous workshops:
Whitsunday Arts Festival September 2022
Participants learned to make small Ghost Net rays which were displayed in a spectacular installation on the foreshore at Airlie Beach alongside a large soaring fever of other ghost net rays made in a previous workshop with Marion Gaemers and Lynnette Griffiths.
Canada:
First Nations summer school interns at Museum of Archeology, University of British Columbia Canada went online to learn how to make a ray for the Stories of the Moving tide project. These little rays once sewn onto the bottom of the giant rays symbolise the connection of people across the Pacific.
AIMS:
Face to Face workshops were conducted with local arts groups, Zero Waste, students and teachers to make marine animals.
School workshops were organised and run in partnership with Erub Artists.
A large scale spiral installation based on a Giant Triton snail has been populated with contributions from all workshop participants.
This installation will travel from Queensland to the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Rays at Perc Tucker
January 2022 Ghost net Collective ran a public workshop as part of the exhibition -
Fresh Material: new Australian Textile Art.
Bric a Brac at Murky Waters Gallery
Ghost net Collective ran a public workshop to raise awareness around the problem
of ocean pollution.
