ACCA Workshop Series: Drawing with Darcey Bella Arnold
Join artist Darcey Bella Arnold for an evening of guided drawing activities using a variety of materials. In this hands-on making workshop you will explore fundamental techniques and develop skills in observational and experimental approaches to drawing. The artist will guide participants through texture drawings or ‘rubbings’, observational drawing and collage with the idea of creating a finished drawing at the end of the session using these three elements. Accessible for all skill levels, this workshop is designed to give you a deeper appreciation for drawing as a generative creative activity.
All materials provided. BYO apron.
Darcey Bella Arnold is an Australian, Melbourne based artist of British and Scottish descent. Darcey completed a BFA, Drawing at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007, and a BFA, Honours at Monash University in 2009. A selection of recent exhibitions include: My Mother’s Labour Sutton Project Space, Folded brick Neon Parc Project Space, Darcey Bella Arnold and Deimantas Narkevičius (LTU) organised by Paulius Andriuškevičius and Nicholas Kleindienst, 2018; Talking with the Taxman About Poetry Testing Grounds. Arnold has been a finalist in the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2019 and the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, 2018. She attended an Artist-In-Residence program with Eastside International (ESXLA) Los Angeles in 2016 and was included in Kimposium a social sciences symposium curated by Dr Meredith Jones at Brunel University, London, 2015. Darcey teaches Life Drawing at the University of Melbourne and Drop by Drawing at the National Gallery of Victoria.
About the Workshop Series
ACCA’s Education Team have invited leading Australian artists to present small practical making workshops for adults to learn a broad range of approaches and techniques for art making. This workshop series is an ideal professional development opportunity for art educators and tertiary students.
Other workshops in the series include:
Staining with Katie West: Wednesday 14 August, 6–8pm
Reaction and Response with Richard Lewer: Wednesday 28 August, 6–8pm
ACCA Workshop Series: Reaction and Response with Richard Lewer
Join artist Richard Lewer to be put through your paces using the movement and motion of your body as stimulus to create unexpected compositions. Accessible for all skill levels, this adult art making workshop will inspire you to explore unconventional ways of making marks, devise strategies for overcoming the dreaded ‘artist’s block’ and might even get your blood pumping!
All materials provided. Please wear comfortable, loose fitting clothing and rubber soled/sport shoes.
Richard Lewer’s practice encompasses a broad range of media, including painting, drawing, animation, video and performance. His subjects deal with the dramas and tragedies of everyday life, found in sport, crime and religion. Lewer has exhibited nationally and internationally. Selected exhibitions include Parnngurr, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (2015); Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2014); Dark Heart: 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2014); Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); Inside Running – The Art of Sport, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle (2013); Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2012). Lewer’s work is held numerous collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Victoria University, Melbourne; and Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand.
About the Workshop Series
ACCA’s Education Team have invited leading Australian artists to present small practical making workshops for adults to learn a broad range of approaches and techniques for art making. This workshop series is an ideal professional development opportunity for art educators and tertiary students.
Other workshops in the series include:
Drawing with Darcey Bella Arnold: Wednesday 31 July, 6–8pm
Staining with Katie West: Wednesday 14 August, 6–8pm
ACCA Workshop Series: Staining with Katie West
Join artist Katie West in a practical making workshop to explore different ways of leaving marks, stains and traces on fabric using natural dyes from plants. In this hands-on workshop you will experiment with and learn about different natural dyeing techniques, using silk and an array of botanicals to create unique textiles.
Katie West is a Yindjibarndi woman, with an interdisciplinary practice that explores the renewal of human connections with and within the natural environment. West was selected as the winner of the inaugural Dominik Mersch Gallery / Victorian College of the Arts Award in 2017 with her Masters graduate exhibition piece ‘muhlu garrwarn / cool time hot time’. In this ongoing work, the artist engages with natural dyeing processes and text scores as ways to participate with the seasons. Through these repeated processes, her work moves from memory to the realm of instruction or storytelling.
Her installations grow with the seasons as quiet and powerful evocations of place. To begin, West dyes her fabric using plant material and an open fire in muhlu (cool time). Following this, solar dyeing and sewing with the fabric and thread created in muhlu becomes the focus in garrwarn (hot time). Text scores serve to both document this process and guide the process again in future seasons.
About the Workshop Series
ACCA’s Education Team have invited leading Australian artists to present small practical making workshops for adults to learn a broad range of approaches and techniques for art making. This workshop series is an ideal professional development opportunity for art educators and tertiary students.
Other workshops in the series include:
Drawing with Darcey Bella Arnold: Wednesday 31 July, 6–8pm
Reaction and Response with Richard Lewer: Wednesday 28 August, 6–8pm
All materials provided. BYO apron.