Arts Events Wellbeing Support

Avrille provides wellbeing support for events, shows, conferences, workshops or talks. Alongside being an Artist she is an Accredited Mental Health Clinician and Creative Arts Therapist.

She specialises in arts events, parenting spaces, cultural events and events where there may be difficult themes or content. If you are an organisation and seeking wellbeing support at your next event please click ‘enquire here.’

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Avrille Burrows is a Naarm (Melbourne) based multidisciplinary artist primarily working in textiles. Through the process of collecting, dyeing, weaving and stitching her work seeks to understand self through history, place and her lineage.

As a migrant and woman of Indian heritage, the themes of colonisation, integration, and private and public displacement are present in her work. Her background in mental health draws in her learnings about intergenerational trauma and the principals of recovery, and merges this with her practice of art making.  Seeing her works as extensions of herself, Avrille directly imbeds herself into her work through the use of her hair, medical imaging and prints of her body.

Avrille’s use of textiles pays homage of to the history of women, making and storytelling. Repetition in her work serves as a rhythm, with stitches, weaving and brushstrokes all used meditatively as an act of mending, recovery and kindness to oneself.

Avrille is the founder of The Installation Series, a sensory play space that activates creativity and the community through the use of natural or recyclable material. Avrille is also a member of The Artists Guild, a social enterprise that champions women in the arts and seeks to close the gender dived in the industry. From 2017 to 2018 Avrille co-directed The Artists Guild alongside Claire Weigall, Emily Raubenheimer, Karima Baadilla and Hollie Fifer as the organisation established a gallery, workshop and shop in Docklands, Melbourne and curated over 17 exhibitions, held community workshops and exhibited 275 women artists. 

To the best of her ability Avrille engages in a sustainable art practice, using gifted, second-hand, found, scrap or natural materials.