Led by visual artist Karen Yvette Clarke, the Repeat Pattern Design Workshop is an interactive, hands-on creative session that invites participants to explore pattern making through playful mark-making and digital design. This workshop is presented as part of The Dax Centre’s Re/Connect program, designed to foster creativity and social connection in a welcoming, inclusive environment.

This event is also part of Analog Art Club is a statewide initiative that invites Victorians to slow down, switch off their screens and connect in real life - through art. Hosted by galleries across Victoria, these phone-free events offer a welcoming space to reflect, discuss and experience art together, making creativity social, accessible and refreshingly analog.

Participants will:

Create original hand-drawn motifs using simple materials (e.g. paper, pencils, flowers for inspiration)

Learn how to turn their drawings into repeat patterns

Each participant will receive one final digital pattern by the end of the session or emailed afterward if time constraints arise

Where: The Dax Centre, 30 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC
When: 26 July, 1pm-3pm
Tickets: $25 + booking fee. Limited spots available. All of the proceeds from the tickets go toward the artist and supporting artists with lived experience of mental illness. 

Drinks provided. 

All materials will be provided included drawing utensils and paper. Participants are welcome to bring along any additional materials they may wish to include in their own work. Participants with all levels of experience welcomed and encouraged.

Join us at The Dax Centre for Anna Ellis' new workshop: Botanical Minds!

As a part of the Internal Landscapes exhibition program, First Nations artist Anna Ellis will teach participants wool felting, including needle felting and wet felting techniques. Participants will learn to transform their wool into a small landscape picture, and a billy button flower.

For Anna Ellis, wool felting is an incredibly meditative and reflective practice, which helps her connect to self, culture and Country.

This workshop aims to provide participants with new creative skills to help them feel grounded and relaxed, and to connect socially with fellow arts enthusiasts.

When: 2 August, 1-4PM, 2025

Where: The Dax Centre, 30 Royal Parade, Parkville, 3052

Tickets: $40 per person. Limited spots available.

All materials provided. Light refreshment provided. All of the proceeds from the tickets go toward the artist and supporting artists with lived experience of mental illness. 

Participants are welcome to bring along any additional materials they may wish to include in their own work.

Participants with all levels of experience welcomed and encouraged.