Reverie and Enchantment

In 2014 Alice Kettle and visual anthropologist Amanda Ravetz undertook a research residency at the ANU art school in Australia. During the residency, they developed their own shared ‘making space’  using drawing as a shared language. They reflected on the themes of gesture, reverie and enchantment, which culminated in a three-day workshop. 

The workshop participants were textiles staff and students from the ANU art school; visiting artists; and visiting scholars with experience of, or an interest in, visual anthropology. The purpose of the lab was to explore these different states of being and physicality as they pertain to craft and making.  The Lab included periods of making, reflection, discussion and documentation, with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the internal and external processes of art making. They took the learning from the workshop back into their ongoing research practice.