Australian Visual Artist, Margarita Georgiadis, is The Wicked Weaver, based in Gunning on the Southern Tablelands of NSW, where she creates sculptural woven objects from locally foraged fibres and plants grown in her garden.

It all began back in 2003 when she and her husband purchased The Coronation Theatre in Gunning. Along with the theatre building, they acquired an acre of bare, infertile land which Margarita set about creating into a naturalistic bush garden. After twenty years of nurturing the soil, composting, planting, designing and maintaining, the garden flourished into a self sustaining, natural world filled with mature trees and plants that now supply her with the materials she utilises in her woven objects.

“Weaving consolidates my connection to the garden”

“Weaving the garden feels like the perfect creative cycle. Creating the garden has lead me to creating artworks from the garden. The process of weaving is not as immediate as painting, it’s a slow and methodical creativity that relies on an intimate understanding of plant fibre, of which I am constantly learning.

Larger sculptural pieces are created in the garden and left to decompose to continue the cycle. The Wicked Weaver logo is based on the orb spider, ‘weaving a web of reciprocity, of giving and taking’. I created the orb spider as a drypoint etching. This print hangs in my weaving loft studio and like the spider, I also weave in a cyclical process of reciprocity with my garden.”

‘Weaving a web of reciprocity’ quote from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass”