PAPER DOLLS WORKSHOP | ROBYN JEAN
Robyn Jean explores resilience and cultural identity in Australia, using symbolic materials and dolls to reflect on memory, history, and community, inspiring creativity and the making of personal doll figurines.
This three-hour beginner workshop, inspired by Robyn Jean’s great-grandmother at Moore River Settlement, teaches doll-making using hemp fabric, tea staining, sewing, embroidery, and paper decoration.
Participants create personalised dolls reflecting resilience, creativity, and cultural history, guided in a friendly, supportive environment.
Sat 14 Feb 2026 | 11 am – 2 pm | Suitable for ages 16+
$85 | $76.5 Members | Booking Essential | Mundaring Arts Centre
MATERIALS
All materials provided. Participants are welcome to bring along their own fabric and sewing kit.
ARTIST BIO
Robyn Jean’s multimedia art, inspired by her great-grandmother’s incarceration at Moore River Settlement, uses photographs, hemp, sewing, tea toning and paper to evoke loss and resilience. Her work invites viewers to reflect on the sorrow and layered histories of Australia’s Stolen Generations.