# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Kwobidak Yorga NC25 | Healing Doll Workshop with Geri Hayden & Rachel Riggs
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 10:30 am – Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Come join Geri Hayden and Rachel Riggs to honour the work of the late Marcelle Riley and make your own Healing Doll.

Celebrating the work by the late Noongar textile artist Marcelle Riley, this workshop will be hosted by Riley's Healing Doll project collaborator and Noongar artist Geri Hayden and the Kwobidak Yorga exhibition curator Rachel Riggs. Create a personal doll using simple textile techniques, turning your memories, family, and dreams into art.

When: Saturday 19 July, 10.30am - 3pm
Cost: $15 +fees per person. Includes all materials and equipment. Bring with you an item of personal significance (optional: fabric, jewellery, buttons, or old clothing)
Where: Bunbury Regional Art Gallery | 64 Wittenoom St, Bunbury

• About Kwobidak Yorga •
Exhibiting as a part of Noongar Country 2025 are works by the late textile artist Marcelle Riley in Kwobidak Yorga (Beautiful Woman). The works reflect Riley's journey and experiences, creating eco dyed artworks holding unique stories and personal narrative, they tell of country and the power of Noongar culture as a way of healing.

Marcelle Riley, a Noongar textile artist, created traditional dolls with eco dyeing and basket weaving. Collecting local bush flowers and fauna, she created eco-dyed cloth and shared her work with the community, leading workshops for CANWA, the Song Room and many other organisations. She was born in Moora and grew up in Pingelly on her mother’s country, and lived in Narrogin. She worked in mental health and the community for many years, developing her doll-making and arts practice. Riley taught how to make dolls representing loved ones, facilitating intergenerational workshops and sharing stories for community healing.

Riley was a finalist in the 2017 National Self Portrait Prize for her work Bibool Yok (Paperbark Girl), the only soft sculpture ever selected. This doll was acquired by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA and shown in the exhibition Sustaining The Art of Practice curated by Lee Kinsella in 2022. Riley’s work with Story Dolls has been recognised internationally for its community-led, healing pedagogy. She shared her process in a TED Talk, How Story Dolls Heal Unspoken Trauma at TEDx Perth in September 2019.

Riley curated her first group exhibition at SHAC CoLab gallery, Fremantle in 2019, a celebration of Noongar female artists. Her first solo show in December 2020 was a sold-out success, with works purchased by the City of Stirling collection, amongst others.

Her last collection Kwobidak Boodja (2021) showed her developing a unique way of working, combining eco dyed dolls on country, collaged with acrylic painting.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bunbury/kwobidak-yorga-nc25-|-healing-doll-workshop-with-geri-hayden-and-rachel-riggs/200028405183811
- **Event Categories**: art, workshops, exhibitions, health-wellness, fine-arts, mental-health
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 31

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bunbury
- **state**: WA
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Bunbury Regional Art Gallery
- **lat**: -33.324838009919
- **long**: 115.63538991212
- **full address**: Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, 64 Wittenoom Street,Bunbury,WA,Australia

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Kwobidak Yorga NC25 | Healing Doll Workshop with Geri Hayden & Rachel Riggs being held?
  - **A:** Kwobidak Yorga NC25 | Healing Doll Workshop with Geri Hayden & Rachel Riggs takes place on Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 10:30 am to Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 03:00 pm at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, 64 Wittenoom Street,Bunbury,WA,Australia.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Kwobidak Yorga NC25 | Healing Doll Workshop with Geri Hayden & Rachel Riggs?
  - **A:** Kwobidak Yorga NC25 | Healing Doll Workshop with Geri Hayden & Rachel Riggs is organized by Bunbury Regional Art Gallery.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Kwobidak Yorga NC25 | Healing Doll Workshop with Geri Hayden & Rachel Riggs is ideal for learners, working professionals, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Bunbury, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Kwobidak Yorga NC25 | Healing Doll Workshop with Geri Hayden & Rachel Riggs sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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