Juliet Arnott
Individual
Campbeltown
My father Peter is from Northumbria, and my grandparents from there and north at Dalcapon & Nairn. My mother Rankeilor, her ancestors are from Rothesay on Bute, Kilmarnock, Glasgow and Burntisland, before they left for Aotearoa New Zealand. I have lived years on both sides of the world, seperate homes but they are together in me.
As founder of Rekindle, an arts organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand since 2010 I supported and created work focused on creating opportunities for resourcefulness through craft. This has now become a community of practice which continues far beyond it's beginnings.
To me traditional craft and heritage are vital lifelines to wellbeing as they speak to ways of living in deeper hands-on relationship with place. Through my work I find wellbeing in being together with others to learn and practice what resources us as part of the interdependent living systems we live within. And so I have been working with harnessing undervalued materials via resourceful craft traditions for 30 years or more, and much of this has involved gathering communities of people. My previous work, only made possible by a large number of people who have worked together, includes:
- - - Furniture & offcuts made from timber salvaged from demolition waste 2010-2014,
- - - Whole House Reuse, 2012-2015. One whole house was saved post-earthquake and reused by 250+ creatives across Aotearoa & beyond. https://wholehousereuse.co.nz/
- - - Resource: Rise Again, 2016-2017. Five professional teams of designers focused their skills on industrial waste streams.
- - - Necessary Traditions festival, 2018. 40+ resourceful craft practitioners shared their skills & practice with the public. https://necessarytraditions.co.nz/
- - - Published the Journal of Resourcefulness, vol 1, 2018.
- - - Waiata ki te wai with Yo-Yo Ma - Songs for water, 2019. An event co-directed with Kerepeti Paraone (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Hine).
- - - Resourceful Skills workshop, 2017 - ongoing. A skill-sharing programme now run by the Rekindle Charitable Trust. This involves establishment of a community willow growing & weaving group, spoon club, & mending and darning groups.
My work also includes mark-making, writing, green woodworking, and weaving. I've taught thousands of people resourceful greenwood-working, weaving and other resourceful skills.
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