Self empowerment through grace,beauty and kindness
Sara Thorn is a artist and designer based in Melbourne, Australia and working extensively throughout India.
Sara has a passion for textiles, adornment and mixing modern & ancient influences across rug, jewelry,textile , homewares and interior design.
Sara has extensively researched traditional textile techniques and histories She has a particular interest in symbolic patterning and incorporating mystical and sacred knowledge and patterns into her design work.
She was awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2001 to study jacquard silk weaving at the Lisio Foundation in Italy ,several of her designs were woven by Rubelli as part of this project .
Sara Thorn's work combines artisan hand skills with contemporary technologies.
Sara has regular exhibitions of her paintings and maintains a artistic as well as design practice.
Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Powerhouse Museum, Australia.
Sara also conducts workshops in Australia and internationally on creativity,textiles,sacred patterning and design.
Sara is focused on supporting the continuation of traditional hand skills and extending traditions into the modern world. Sara conducted a series of workshops in 2005 across Southern India to master weavers who had stopped designing their own ideas due to weaving only commissioned designs.The focus of these workshops was to empower the weaver to create original and market focused designs to create better and more meaningful employment opportunities.
Sara conducted design workshops in Soweto, South Africa in 2007 as part of the South Project through Craft Victoria.
Sara Thorn is a artist and designer based in Melbourne, Australia and working extensively throughout India.
Sara has a passion for textiles, adornment and mixing modern & ancient influences across rug, jewelry,textile , homewares and interior design.
Sara has extensively researched traditional textile techniques and histories She has a particular interest in symbolic patterning and incorporating mystical and sacred knowledge and patterns into her design work.
She was awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2001 to study jacquard silk weaving at the Lisio Foundation in Italy ,several of her designs were woven by Rubelli as part of this project .
Sara Thorn's work combines artisan hand skills with contemporary technologies.
Sara has regular exhibitions of her paintings and maintains a artistic as well as design practice.
Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Powerhouse Museum, Australia.
Sara also conducts workshops in Australia and internationally on creativity,textiles,sacred patterning and design.
Sara is focused on supporting the continuation of traditional hand skills and extending traditions into the modern world. Sara conducted a series of workshops in 2005 across Southern India to master weavers who had stopped designing their own ideas due to weaving only commissioned designs.The focus of these workshops was to empower the weaver to create original and market focused designs to create better and more meaningful employment opportunities.
Sara conducted design workshops in Soweto, South Africa in 2007 as part of the South Project through Craft Victoria.
