FERTILIZER: An Erotic Feminist Collage Workshop
🗓 Wed 30th April 🕰 6:30 - 9pm 🔞 18+ Only 🎟 $85
"If love is to bloom... You make me a garden in summer... overgrown, unkempt, and wild."
Join collage artist Maja Irene Bolier for FERTILIZER, a hands-on workshop that reclaims and reimagines the erotic image through the transformative power of collage.
Maja Irene's work explores the delicate balance between the power and fragility of sexuality. By slicing through erotic imagery and layering botanical elements, she alters the narrative, challenging the male gaze and redefining sensuality on her own terms.
In this workshop, Maja invites you to do the same.
Using scissors and scalpels as tools of subversion, participants will dissect and reconstruct found imagery to question, play with, and reshape dominant representations of sexuality. Through this intimate and creative process, you will explore the power dynamics embedded in visual culture while crafting your own visual language—one that is playful, erotic, defiant, or tender.
What to Expect:
An introduction to Maja Irene Bolier's artistic practice and her approach to feminist collage 🎨
Hands-on collage-making using a variety of materials, including vintage erotic imagery and botanical prints 🍃
Guided exercises to explore themes of power, desire, and reclaiming the narrative ♀️
Space for reflection, discussion, and sharing your creative process (optional) 🖼️
A small selection of light snacks & nibbles (feel free to BYO too)
Who is this for? This workshop is open to anyone curious about collage, feminism, and the intersection of art and sensuality. No prior collage experience is necessary—just a willingness to cut, question, and create.
Come ready to get your hands dirty and sow the seeds of new visual possibilities. Together, we'll cultivate a garden of untamed, unapologetic expression.
Please note; sensitive content/trigger warning;
Some imagery used in this workshop will contain nudity and adult themes, and may be sensitive or challenging for some people.
🔞 Therefore the workshop is for 18+ only.
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Location
544 Sydney Road Brunswick 3056
Parking
• Staley Street Parking (parallel and behind us) - Free on Sat & Sun with no time limit
• Staley Street Car Park (parallel and behind us) - Free on Sat & Sun with no time limit
• Sydney Road Parking - Free with 2hr limit
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At that paper joint, we want everyone to feel welcome. There are some access details to share about our 100-year-old building. When booking you also have the opportunity to let us know of any requirements you may have. Studio
The front entrance has one step of 5 inches high, which then gives you full access to the gallery, studio & workshop space.
There is a variety of seating options within the studio.
Our floors are polished tiles.
If you are attending a workshop, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements prior to your visit. hello@thatpaperjoint.com Bathroom
There are three 7.5 inch tall steps to get to our rear bathrooms.
The two bathrooms have swingings doors and handrails, with a cubicle width of 75cm.
The closest wheelchair-accessible public bathroom is 300m away on Victoria Street, outside Small Axe Kitchen.
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No cancellations, but free to reschedule up until 5 days before the class.
If TPJ doesn’t meet the minimum numbers required, we will contact you with 24hr notice to reschedule or process a refund*.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
Workshop Tickets
🗓 Wed 30th April 🕰 6:30 - 9pm
🔞 18+ Only 🎟 $85pp
Your Host
Maja Irene Bolier is a Dutch/Australian multidisciplinary artist who loves to cut things up and put them back together—whether that’s images, ideas, or expectations. Their work plays with power, sexuality, and perception, flipping the script on how bodies are seen and who gets to control that narrative. Collage, for them, is a way to reclaim space, take ownership, and make something beautiful (or weird, or messy, or whatever it needs to be).
Maja works with installation, film, spoken word, collage, writing, sound, costume-making, and performance.
A recurring theme in their work is the tension of not fully controlling how their image as a female-presenting person is perceived—both in their own mind and in the way it is viewed and sexualized by others.
Art is their way of choosing how they want to be seen—an act of empowerment.
Their work is unapologetic in its intensity because the systems it confronts are grotesque. Art is not just survival—it is a weapon. It challenges and dismantles societal norms that confine, oppress, and dehumanize. While their work may at times provoke discomfort, that discomfort is intentional. It reflects the violence of the systems we inhabit, creating space for resistance, redefinition, and the possibility of something freer.
