workshops
I regulary conduct workshops at my studio in Mt Kembla on the Illawarra Coast as well at other venues around Australia.
To join one of the workshops please contact me by email
• 2012 workshops
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Book Workshop – Notebooks & Journals with Liz Jeneid
Monoprint workshop with Tony Ameneiro
Drawing workshop with Kathryn Orton
Collagraph workshop with Kathryn Orton
Non-toxic etching workshop with Tim Winters
Dyeing using natural materials/book workshop with Liz Jeneid
Assemblage workshop with Anita Larkin
Classes are small (8-10) so places fill quickly.
To secure a place email Liz Jeneid.
Please indicate which course you would like to do.
A material list will be sent nearer to the time of the course.
A deposit of $20 will be required. Deposits can be only be refunded up to two weeks before the course.
*Tea and coffee are supplied for all workshops – participants are asked to bring lunch to be shared.
Book Workshop – Notebooks & Journals
with Liz Jeneid
March 10 &11, 2012 (Mt Kembla)
Ever wanted to make your own travel journal or notebook?
The weekend workshop will begin with making a journal with blank pages, then we will look at stitched bindings – coptic binding, books on tapes and multi needle stitched bindings.
A folder or box will be made for one of the finished books.
Times: 10am – 4pm each day
Cost: $180.00 plus a small material charge
Monoprint workshop
with Tony Ameneiro visit Tony Ameneiro's web site
March 31 & April 1, 2012 (Mt Kembla)
Tony Ameneiro studied art at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education in Sydney from 1978 to 1981. He currently teaches printmaking at Wollongong West TAFE. He is an artist-printmaker, working across the areas of intaglio, lithography and relief printmaking.
He began exhibiting professionally in 1978 and has shown his work regularly in both solo and group shows since.( Tony Ameneiro is represented by Port Jackson Press in Victoria ).
Tony Ameneiro was the winner of the National 2007 Fremantle Print Award, and was also twice chosen by the Print Council of Australia as their commissioned print artist. Twice finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize Art Gallery of NSW, 2003 and 2006, and was represented at the Biennale Jogja VIII 2005 Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
He secured a 6 week residency in early 2011 at the “Art Vault” in Mildura, Victoria
His work has been collected by several major institutions including the National Gallery of Australia, The Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of South Australia and the State Library of Victoria and also by various private collections within Australia and overseas.
A two day workshop using the versatile medium of mono-printing to produce both single colour and multi-colour ‘monotypes’.
(Each printed image remains unique, hence the title ‘monotype’.)
Learn how to make prints using the “reductive” method; inking plates and wiping back. Explore colour printing and learn the necessary skills to produce multi-colour monotype prints using up to three plastic plates.
Being considered a hybrid of printmaking and painting, the medium is suited to people working in both fields.
Times: 10am – 4pm each day
Cost: $180.00 plus $20 for materials
Drawing workshop
with Kathryn Orton
April 28 & 29, 2012 (Mt Kembla)
Kathryn Orton worked as a graphic artist for many years. She studied Fine Arts at West Wollongong TAFE and then gained a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong. Since 1987 she has taught Fine Arts for TAFE NSW, Illawarra Institute – both part-time and full time. Kathryn has exhibited widely since 1984, including ten solo shows and she exhibited print works annually with the Six by Six printmakers in Wollongong from 1984-98. She is now in the Southern Highland Printmakers.
Kathryn has had work selected to show in the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the Sulman Prize, the Dobell Drawing Prize, the Shell Fremantle Print Award and the Kedumba Drawing Award and many other national and state group exhibitions. Artist residencies include Wollongong City Gallery 1994, Yirrkala, North East Arhnem Land 1996, and the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts 2007, Greece.
Her work has been aquired by the Art Gallery of NSW Research Library, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, University of Wollongong Permanent Collection, University of Wollongong Union Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and private collections throughout Australia.
Landscape & Imagination
Participants will be introduced to a number of drawing techniques, graphite, charcoal, coloured pencils, water soluble pencils and crayons. The use of mixed media will also be demonstrated and encouraged so the final drawings may be a combination of different media, traditional techniques and collage or layered drawings.
Participants will be inspired by the area around the workshop in Mt Kembla for imagery. Additional subject matter can be brought from home - using your imagination will be encouraged.
Times: 10am – 4pm each day
Cost: $180.00 plus a small material charge
Collagraph workshop
with Kathryn Orton
May 12 & 13, 2012 (Mt Kembla)
The preparation of relief plates will be demonstrated. Multiple plates and masks will be used to create your final colour prints. If you participated in the drawing workshop, images from that workshop can be used on the plates otherwise bring images that you would like to try in the printing process – photographs, photo copies, simple shapes etc.
Times: 10am – 4pm each day
Cost: $180.00 plus $20 for materials
Non-toxic etching workshop
with Tim Winters visit Tim Winters' web site
August 11 & 12, 2012 (Mt Kembla)
Introduction to non-toxic etching using aluminium printing plates
Winner of the Country Energy Prize for Landscape Painting and the Central West Regional Artists Award.
Forthcoming projects include ‘Island to Island’; a series of large scale prints completed as International Visiting Artist, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, together with new works created in Australia, to be shown at Cowra Regional Art Gallery in 2012.
Recent projects have included ‘Place’, an exhibition of paintings at Artsite, Sydney in 201l; and ‘Artist at Work’, a studio installation and exhibition of drawings and paintings at Western Plains Cultural Centre / Dubbo Regional Gallery in 2010.
Works in the collections of: Artbank, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Dubbo Regional Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Print Council of Australia, Western Institute of TAFE, Australia/Japan Society, and Australia ICOMOS.
Introduction to non-toxic etching using aluminium printing plates and a copper sulphate solution.
Learn how to prepare the aluminium plate and paper, apply and wipe the ink, set up the printing press for printing, including how to print multiple plates for colour.
Explore your own image making skills using line, tone and colour.
Times: 10am – 4pm each day
Cost: $180.00 plus $20 for materials
Dyeing using natural materials/book
workshop
with Liz Jeneid
August 25 & 26, 2012 (Mt Kembla)
More dyeing using natural materials, and a book!
Paper will be dyed using a variety of plant based dyes. We will then change the surface of the paper, using the marks made during the dye process to guide the stitching, cutting or embossing of the pages.
A book will be made using the simple concertina form with added pages or small objects stitched into the folds.
It will be a weekend of exploring possibilities using simple materials that you can use at home.
Times: 10am – 4pm each day
Cost: $180.00 plus a small fee for materials
Assemblage workshop
with Anita Larkin visit Anita Larkin's website
November 17 & 18, 2012 (Mt Kembla)
Anita Larkin graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Sydney College of The Arts in 1993, and has since exhibited extensively around Australia and internationally. She is represented by Defiance Gallery in Sydney. The unique sculpture Larkin creates has featured in numerous exhibitions including Sculpture by the Sea, The Wynne Prize, The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, The Art Gallery of NSW, Wollongong City Gallery, and internationally in Germany, Italy, Hungary, Mexico and the UK. Her work is represented in private and public collections.
Assemblages of collected objects are a large part of her studio practice as well as making felted works, bronze casting and working on public art commissions. Transforming the collected object into sculptures evoking a human narrative, Larkin reveals a strange beauty within the forgotten and discarded.
Larkin has taught art workshops for 18 years.
Anita Larkin has a special interest in the narrative associations that can be made from the found object and uses this as a beginning to develop sculptures. A small-scale sculpture provides an opportunity to gather a viewer in close to an artwork, providing an intimate personal experience, drawing attention to small surface details. This workshop will explore various simple mechanical methods of joining found objects together and skills needed in working with diverse materials. This will include basic assemblage techniques, riveting, and using fillers.
This is a weekend of alchemy, of animating the inanimate, of creating story and sculpture out of discarded objects.
Cost: $180.00 plus a $20 fee for materials
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