Join Artist in Residence Aleksandra for this 1/2 day workshop - $20 BHAE members, $30 for non-members.
Concept:
We all transform — but sometimes the most powerful changes begin from what we try to throw away.
During this workshop, we’ll explore metamorphosis through creation: participants will collect discarded objects and materials found around Broken Hill and turn them into butterflies — symbols of renewal, freedom, and the invisible connection between destruction and beauty.
Process:
Each butterfly will be unique, created from fragments of what the town leaves behind — plastic, wire, cans, paper, forgotten things. Together, they’ll form a collaborative installation representing the collective pulse of transformation.
Philosophy:
The workshop is about rebirth, sustainability, and storytelling.
It’s not just art-making — it’s a ritual of turning chaos into meaning.
Every piece carries a question: what if the things we discard are actually parts of us that still want to fly?
“We’re not fixing what’s broken — we’re teaching it how to fly.”
Duration: approx. 5 hours 11 - 4pm
Participants: no artistic experience required
Bring: any waste you have to reimagine and some food to share for lunch.
Aleksandra Kaźmierczak is a writer, artist and entrepreneur from Poland. Trained in literature and deeply influenced by the absurd and the intuitive, her work revolves around Obłoki — soft, organic forms that chart her personal journey and emotional landscapes.
She creates and writes about women returning to themselves — their truth, body, and power. Recently, she opened her own museum, which now holds over a hundred of her paintings, and published her first book „Andy i inne Robale" (Andy and Other Bugs), a poetic collection about intimacy, freedom, and self-reclamation.
She lives between poetic fantasy and grounded persistence.