Discover Basketry Workshops & Fibre Art
Join award-winning artist Catriona Pollard for exclusive weaving workshops and handmade fibre art. Learn basketry techniques, create stunning sculptures and explore your creativity.
Discover Basketry Workshops & Fibre Art – In Catriona’s public and online basketry workshops you have the opportunity to explore your creativity through traditional basketry with a sculptural perspective. These fun weaving courses are the perfect way to learn a new skill with a focus on exploration and play not perfection.
Catriona develops tailored workshops in nature-based art experiences that can be about team building, play and story telling, tapping into creativity, problem solving, digital detox, dealing with resilience and stress or simply a fun hands on learning experience.
Catriona runs creative workshops for the public, online and corporates. Please click on the buttons below for basketry and fibre art workshops.
“Your workshop was the best I have ever attended or likely to. It was so complete with our written work, discussions, meditations, ephemeral art, as well as all the great techniques and the total class commitment and enthusiasm.” Rachel
“Thanks so much for an awesome weekend of weaving! It was wonderful to learn a range of weaving styles and enjoy great company.” Jane
“A fantastic workshop.” Jenny
“Thank you so much for the weekend workshop. It was lovely to learn your techniques with a great group of fascinating women” Venta
RANDOM WEAVE SCULPTURES
Join this fun filled full day workshop and learn the random weave basketry technique using the wonderful Bangalow Palm inflorescence.
The workshop is all about exploration and play – not perfection. So it’s perfect for those who think they have no creativity or artistic ability (we are all creative!)- or want to explore that quality more.
Experience and explore sculptural basketry techniques and learn how to create something from found organic material just using your hands and imagination.
It’s a small class so you get hands-on tuition from expert weaver, Catriona Pollard. Materials included, but if you have access to Bangalow Palm inflorescence then bring it along. Once booked, I’ll give you preparation notes.
Suitable for beginners, or intermediate weavers. If you’ve never done weaving before – perfect! You’ll love it and leave with finished basket or sculpture.
ONLINE BASKETRY COURSES
Comprehensive and fun online on demand video basketry courses where you will learn how to weave like a pro using material you can easily find or buy.
In these on demand online video based courses:
- You can learn at your own pace.
- Stop and start as many times as you want!
- Begin the course whenever you want.
- You have lifetime access.
- You can use materials you can easily buy or collect.
They are:
- super practical
- easy to follow
- suitable for beginners and intermediate weavers or
- anyone who simply wants to explore their creativity.
The courses are:random weaving with cane + inclusions
- random weaving with long leafy plants
- twining with jute with a pattern
- sculpture
See the basketry courses at schoolofbasketryart.com
CORPORATE NATURE BASED CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS
Nature-based artist and corporate international speaker and trainer, Catriona Pollard, develops tailored workshops in nature-based art experiences that can be about team building, play and story telling, tapping into creativity, problem solving, digital detox, dealing with resilience and stress or simply a fun hands on learning experience.
Reconnect, create, and inspire with Catriona Pollard’s Corporate Nature-Based Art Workshops—unique, hands-on experiences designed to foster creativity, mindfulness, and team collaboration.
These workshops offer a refreshing break from the corporate routine, inviting participants to explore the therapeutic power of nature and art while developing skills in team building, resilience, innovation, and problem-solving.
Blending traditional nature based art techniques with foraged natural materials, these sessions provide a meaningful way to engage with sustainable creativity and mindful making. Through the meditative practice of weaving and other nature based art activities, teams will experience a new way of thinking and collaborating, encouraging focus, patience, and adaptability—essential skills in today’s fast-paced professional world.
These immersive workshops help teams:
- Cultivate creativity and innovation in a hands-on, engaging way
- Enhance mindfulness and stress management through the unique art processes
- Strengthen team connections by working with organic materials in a relaxed setting
- Gain a fresh perspective on sustainability, design, and resourcefulness
Tailored Experiences for Your Team
Each workshop is customised to suit your team’s needs, time frame, and objectives, whether it’s a wellness retreat, leadership development session, or creative team-building event. No prior experience is required—just a willingness to explore, connect, and create.
Give your team an inspiring, creative reset with a Corporate Nature-Based Art Workshop led by award-winning fibre artist Catriona Pollard
Types of nature based workshops:
- Woven sculptures using foraged material
- Foraged Wreath making
- Art in nature techniques involving creating temporary art works using found objects from nature such as leaves and sticks and placing them into patterns and shapes.
- Specific basketry weaving techniques such as making a looped basket form
- Forest bathing exercises
- Expressive painting using ink and collected material from the landscape.
See more information about creativity workshops here.
Watch the ABC TV feature on my workshops:
About the tutor: Catriona Pollard
Catriona Pollard is a contemporary artist who uses traditional basketry techniques to transform foraged plant fibres into organic sculptural works. Her unique sculptural work offers glimpses of shapeshifting natural forms, from unnoticed branches, leaves and seedpods into works that investigate human’s personal connection with the natural world.
As a dedicated professional educator, she holds sold out sculptural basketry weaving workshops in Australia and internationally and teaches for design and craft centres. She holds demonstrations for organisations including Museums, and gives artist talks at galleries and community groups. She also established the online SchoolofBasketryArt.com with students from around the world.
Engaging audiences to build creative connection with the natural world is a fundamental part of her art practice and her teaching. By transforming organic material into sculptures, she presents an opportunity to be enchanted by the natural world and the stories it shares.
Through her sculptures, she uses nature as a way to connect with people that goes beyond physical beauty, but touches them in a personal and profound way. Ultimately aiming to reignite people’s relationship with nature for the wellbeing of both the human and more than human worlds.
She exhibits extensively in solo exhibitions, selected and group exhibitions. She has been an award winners finalist in many art awards including International Art Textile Biennale, National Capital Art Prize, Environmental Art & Design Award, North Sydney Art Prize, Australian Fibre Arts Award, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, Northern Beaches Art Prize Emerging Artist of the Year Craft NSW and Mosman Art Gallery.
Her artwork is profiled across major art and design media and is featured nationally in galleries, high end design spaces and private collections. Watch her talk about her art at ABC TV and Gardening Australia and read in the feature in Good Weekend, SMH/The Age. She is profiled in the Book: Woven Together: Weavers and Their Stories (Gingko Press). See her website for more talks and media.