MAKE IT THEN TEACH IT!
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY FOR TEACHERS
Recommended for Primary and Secondary Visual Arts teachers
Spend a day producing art at ACCA followed by an exclusive preview of Tacita Dean FILM. Work with four artists in this fun, skills based workshop. Try-out contemporary materials and techniques to create simple art activities for the classroom.
Experiment with Ry Hasking’s “self-determined instructions/rules” using number combinations from mathematics, puzzles or text to determine compositions and create collage works.
Make a suite of decorative Blu-Tack works on melamine panels with Alex Pittendrigh, inspired by 18th Century ornamentation and your own imagination, then combine the panels to create a large collaborative work.
Discover experimental and pre-cinematic technologies of film. Learn how to construct a simple zoetrope and hand drawn animated strips with Hanna Chetwin.
Create hand-felted sculptures with Georgina Glanville. Make your own felt using the wet felting method and use it to construct small art objects.
A set of resources will be provided for each workshop so these activities can be adapted and used by students at different levels.
Presenters:
Ry Haskings
Melbourne-based artist, Ry Haskings, layers generic building fixtures, including walls, pipes and screens, with handmade elements such as screenprints and DIY videos to create collaged environments that encourage us to question notions of representation and space. Haskings abides by a shifting set of self-determined instructions that direct the final outcomes of his work. These rules allow space for unexpected juxtapositions to occur while unifying them with an internal logic.
Alex Pittendrigh
The sculptural practice of Alex Pittendrigh comprises objects or suites of wall-based works installed in rooms. These are often perceived as components of a larger, fictional ‘gesamptkunstwerk’ (total art work); physically uncompleted but nevertheless existing as an imaginary whole populated by fragments. Pittendrigh’s work draws upon historical references such as Rococo interiors, but here ornament, and the architecture it colonises, becomes a point of entry into the highly personal mental space of the artist.
Hanna Chetwin
Hanna Chetwin is a filmmaker who is interested in the possibilities of the filmic medium. Working predominantly in 16mm across fiction and documentary genres, her practice points to the physical and tangible nature of film that is so important to the DIY traditions of experimental cinema. Chetwin is also a founding member of the Artist Film Workshop; a group run from Goodtime studios in Carlton whose mission is to provide access to film knowledge and resources for artists.
Georgina Glanville
Central to Georgina Glanville’s practice is the process of making itself. She is interested in the hand-made and in revealing the trace of the artist’s hand, a sense of duration and a sensuousness of material. The tactility of her objects and images offers up a temptation to reach out, and each form or image proposes an enigma to the viewer. Her artwork offers alternative perspectives on growth and the nature of progress, whilst also referencing both internal and external relationships to the body and the self.
VIT STANDARDS ADDRESSED:
VIT Standard 2: Teachers know the content they teach
(2.3) Teachers know the resources and technologies which support learning of the content, processes and skills they teach;
VIT Standard 4: Teachers plan and assess for effective teaching
(4.2) Teachers plan for the use of a range of activities, resources and materials to provide meaningful learning opportunities for all their students;
VIT Standard 7: Teachers reflect on and improve their professional knowledge and practice
(7.2) Teachers work collaboratively with other members of the profession and engage in discussion of contemporary issues and research to improve professional practice.
