Make Your Mark: Carve Your Own Lino Stamp & Create Wearable Art

Make Your Mark: Carve Your Own Lino Stamp & Create Wearable Art  

Hosted by: Renée Mead — Murri Girl Designs

Date/time: Saturday 5 December 2026 | 9.30 am – 12 noon
Location: My Dilly Bag, 5B/354 Mons Rd, Forest Glen QLD
Duration: 2.5 hours

Come along for a fun, hands-on creative workshop with contemporary First Nations artist and designer Renée Mead from Murri Girl Designs.

Learn how to carve your own lino stamp and use it to give new life to clothing you already have in your wardrobe. You’ll create your own unique design, print it onto two supplied tote bags, and then have the opportunity to stamp and upcycle a garment of your own.

This workshop is all about getting creative, experimenting and having fun while exploring ways to turn old or unwanted clothing into something new and uniquely yours.

About the workshop

Renée will guide you through the basics of designing and carving a lino stamp, including how to transfer your design onto lino and safely carve your image ready for printing.

You’ll then explore how to use your handmade stamp to create repeat patterns, marks and designs on fabric.

Each participant will:

• Create their own 10 x 7cm lino stamp
• Carve and print their design
• Receive 2 cotton tote bags to print and take home
• Take their hand-carved lino stamp home to use again
• Bring along a garment from their wardrobe to upcycle and transform
• Learn simple techniques for giving an old garment a new life through print

Your design can be simple — think symbols, shapes, lettering, patterns or imagery that has meaning to you.

What to bring

• A 10 x 7cm design idea to work from
• A garment you would like to upcycle and stamp — such as a jacket, shirt, pants, denim piece or other suitable clothing
• Old clothes or a BYO apron, as printing ink can get messy
• Your creative ideas and willingness to experiment!

Suitable for

• Beginners
• Adults and young people aged 16+
• Anyone interested in lino carving, printmaking, fashion or upcycling
• No previous printmaking experience is required

What we supply

• 2 x cotton tote bags
• Denim squares to make your own patch
• Lino for your handmade stamp
• Printing inks and equipment
• Carving tools
• Printing materials and workshop equipment
• Guidance and support throughout the workshop

About Renée

Renée Mead is a contemporary First Nations artist and designer and the creative behind Murri Girl Designs. Renée has Kullilli, Gangulu and Wakka Wakka ancestral connections and lives on Kabi Kabi Country on the Sunshine Coast.

Her creative practice explores cultural identity, connection to Country, storytelling, colour, mark-making, textiles and wearable art. Through Murri Girl Designs, Renée creates contemporary, vibrant and upcycled pieces, finding ways to give new life to materials and clothing.

Renée is currently studying a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art at Griffith University, continuing to develop her artistic practice and explore new materials, techniques and ways of connecting culture, creativity and storytelling.

Come along, get creative, have a play with lino and printing, and discover how you can upcycle something old and make it your own.