In this free master class, internationally acclaimed textiles artist Dr Haji Oh will teach the technique of backstrap weaving and share how she expands these methods in her own practice, as potent metaphors for transnationalism, mobility and movement. In backstrap, the weaver uses their own body to create tension in the warp thread whilst the other end is held fast to a solid object, such as a rail or a post. Participants can explore this relationship to embodied weaving and their immediate environment, whilst reflecting on their own relationship to place and memory.

Dr Haji Oh is a third generation Zainichi Korean contemporary artist born in Japan, currently residing in Australia. She completed her PhD in Fine Arts at the Kyoto City University of Arts and has been a Visiting Scholar at York University in Toronto, Canada. She has participated in exhibitions all across Japan and abroad, including exhibitions at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kyoto Art Center, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, the Ueno Royal Museum Tokyo, the Busan Biennale, and the University of Wollongong.

It is our great pleasure to welcome Dr Haji Oh to the ANU School of Art & Design as a Visitor funded by the Research School of the Humanities and the Arts.

Spaces strictly limited.