Here are some image galleries of projects on which Harriet has collaborated or been contracted as the principal educator/designer/artist.
The Coracle
The Coracle was a woven boat commissioned by a major Melbourne institution, St Michael’s Church to symbolise nurturing friendship. Harriet stretched goat vellum over a naturally dyed woven frame, made a timber seat and stitched it together using raw leather.
Woven Willow Panelling
For this commercial installation specified by an interior design company, Harriet harvested, dried and prepared bundles of willow and dyed cane (using natural processes with turmeric and tannin/rust) which she and an assistant then wove into 17 metres of panelling to line the base of a restaurant counter. The panels were finished with a beautiful natural wax from beehives …
Djilpin Arts Woven Lights Workshop
Harriet was invited by Djilpin Arts in Katherine, in the ‘Top End’ of Australia’s Northern Territory to facilitate a workshop with weavers from the Beswick/Wullgarr communities. the aim of the workshop was to contemporise and build on the ancient knowledge of weaving and natural dying to produce new products for the artists to sell in galleries and art shows. …
Living Willow
Harriet was commissioned by a Victorian private college to design and build three woven willow structures (two curved tunnels and a large double-dome with two entrances) as part of a nature-based redesign of an existing playground. This included sourcing, harvesting, transporting, preparing and planting willow stems and weaving and securing all elements. School classes were invited for …
Sculpture – End of Work
This sculpture was a commercial installation commissioned by architecture firm End of Work for a new HQ in Mascot Sydney as a focal point in the foyer/entry to the building. The anatomically correct scale model of a beast was welded, stitched and riveted by Harriet to follow the lines in the cuts of meat using all recycled and salvaged materials including …
Harriet Goodall 