Workshop with artist Annelotte Lammertse on plant-based natural textile dyeing.

The Messy Sessie ateliers at Pilar are low-key workshops where we draw, stitch, doodle, cut, glue, and make a bit of a mess together. A nice way to hang out, meet people, and try things out. Each session can be something different: experimental drawing, upcycling clothes, reading circles, model drawing… anything goes.

On May 20, we’re joined by artist Annelotte Lammertse for a hands-on session with dye plants: plants traditionally used to make natural dyes. Together, we’ll extract pigments from plants and dye textiles with natural dyes. We’ll prepare a natural pigment and dye bath on site, and you’ll dip your fabric in natural plant pigments to build up color. Fabrics will be present, but you can bring a piece of fabric (or a garment) you’d like to dye. Natural fibres like wool, or silk work best.

 Annelotte is also one of the artists in The Foragers exhibition at Pilar. Feel free to visit the exhibition before the session, to step into the wider context of her practice.

14:00-20:00: The exhibition is open.

18:00-20:00: Messy Sessie with Annelotte Lammertse

Annelotte Lammertse is a Brussels-based visual artist and researcher. Through weaving, natural dyeing, film, photography, performance, and printmaking, she focuses on the multilayered relationships and connections that are made in our direct natural surroundings, taking flora and other non-human organisms as guides and storytellers. She responds to the ways we constantly try to control, categorise, and capture the ecologies around us. In these works, different forms of collaboration, knowledge production, and precarity are researched.

Free participation, but registration mandatory. Registrationlink soon available.

The Foragers: Engagements beyond the Human, an interdisciplinary art-science project that brings together artists, researchers and enthusiasts to reimagine the ancient practice of foraging as a bold, imaginative and future-facing practice.  Alongside film screenings, talks and collective practices, the programme comes together in the exhibition at Pilar (24 April – 29 May).