Geelong Fibre Forum 2024
Taking enrolments from 2nd December 2023. Take a look at our workshops available!
Gallery
Get a peek at what Geelong Fibre Forum is all about! Take a look through our gallery and see past tutors, workshops, and creations!
Tafta Inc… what’s that?
Tafta Inc. is a non-for-profit organisation founded in 2014 by Larissa Murdock and Bronwyn Packwood for the promotion of the creative arts community.
Tafta hosts the Geelong Fibre Forum, held annually in Victoria, Australia.
Geelong Fibre Forum is a week long event where artists and creators come together to inspire, learn and create all things textiles. Tafta welcomes all budding and seasoned artists to the forum, and even run a scholarship program.
Find out more about Geelong Fibre Forum and the workshops available for 2024.
…and who are they?
Bronwyn Packwood
Growing up in a house surrounded by art, I knew art would play an important part in my life. I studied Art and Teaching at university and became a high school art teacher where I met Larissa.
My first introduction to Geelong Fibre Forum was in 2005 where I stepped in for Larissa to run the young person class. My mind was blown. From then on Larissa and I used Forum as a yearly catch up and play time as we now lived in different parts of Australia. We took over the operation in 2014.
Forum is an amazing mix of creative, caring, sharing, people that I am proud to be part of.
Larissa Murdock
I’ve always had a desire to create and make. Growing up in a household with a mother as an artist and father as a teacher I was exposed to all aspects of the Arts. I studied art at University then explored a couple careers and eventually became an art teacher. With my parents genes it was inevitable this would happen.
As an art teacher I’m always exploring every type of art but my great love for many years has been Wearable Art.
I started attending the Textile Fibre Forum in 2000 at Geelong and went every year I could. Before we knew it, Bronni and I were running the event. And as they say the rest is history…
