In this class you will be able to draw the wonderful world of birds using burnt wood salvaged from the Black Summer Bushfires, to pay homage to the endurance of the community and the environment. Some people see burnt remnants as a negative, using them in a positive way to draw and transform allows an individual to express the beauty in a new beginning. Join expert Jody Graham as you explore new techniques and investigate contemporary drawing practices, developing your skills of drawing with unconventional methods.
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Enmore Road, Newtown, ink, pastel, charcoal on paper, 56cm x 76cm
This one-day expressive drawing workshop is jam packed with projects and tasks to introduce students to expressive drawing in mixed media.
A workshop designed to activate and expand on your passion to draw and create. Learn innovative expressive drawing techniques to help you simplify complicated subjects and create contemporary unique artworks.
When you participating in this one-day course you can expect to learn how to create dynamic compositions, explore mark making with a variety of material, develop your drawing skills and refine techniques to promote individual expression.
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Charcoal from Australian Black Summer bushfires and compressed charcoal on paper, 38cm x 57cm
The Wonderful World of Birds Workshop will teach you how to capture the expressive qualities of birds we encounter in our daily lives. The central theme throughout the workshop will be to help you understand and learn techniques to draw and paint avian qualities that intrigue and inspire you
Learn in a fun, covid safe environment easy to follow drawing approaches designed to strengthen observation skills and develop individual expression. Demonstrations will guide students through a combination of mixed media techniques, planned to promote the creation of unique artworks.
This is a masterclass for intermediate and advanced students.
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Solitude Charcoal and Sap on paper
21 Saturday & 22 Sunday November 2020 – 9.30am – 4pm daily
Unleash your inner artist by securing a place in this two-day expressive landscapes workshop. Under the direction of Jody Graham, you’ll work with charcoal and mixed media, explore techniques to extend and develop your creative visual voice and learn the art of self-expression, ultimately bringing life and energy to your work.
Jody Graham George St, Sydney 140 x 114cm Mixed Media on Paper
Two-day workshop using a range of techniques to expand your knowledge of mark making in a variety of mediums. You can expect to develop drawing skills including the refining of your composition, become more familiar with using charcoal and loosening up methods that help to promote individual expression.
The Creative Summer School will be held at the Nepean Arts and Design Centre, located at TAFE NSW Nepean.
All workshops are located in Building P (enter via Gate 2) 2-10 O’Connell St, Kingswood NSW 2747.
To enrol, please call TAFE NSW on 131 601 or search course number 800-000312 at tafensw.edu.au
Saturday 28th of September 2019 at Gang Gang Gallery
Demonstration using drawing tools, followed by a workshop related to the demonstration.
After lunch on the same day a tutored life drawing session at the same venue.
This will be a fun day with lots of interesting things to see and do related to drawing.
You can book into one event or come for the whole day.
Demonstration 10.30 – 11.30am
workshop 11.30am – 1.30pm
COST – $90
Lunch – Light refreshments
Life Drawing 3 – 6pm
COST – $60
For Bookings Contact Sharon on 0408514440
Grampian Brushes 2019
7 – 12th September Halls Gap Victoria
2 day workshop – Drawing Connections – From Yourself to World Around You.
Explore innovative techniques in drawing and mixed media. Connect with what inspires you from the Grampians environment and work towards making unique, sensitive works.
4 day workshop – Uncovered – Contemporary Life Drawing for Everyone.
Intensive 4 day workshop exploring drawing the human body in new inventive ways.
While artist in residence at Grafton Regional Gallery I will be researching practical and theoretical ideas about extended notions of drawing.
Examining what drawing is by investigating marks that are visible and invisible, as well as two-dimensional and three-dimensional marks from Grafton.
Jody Graham – Installing ‘Drawn from the Discarded’ Photo by Graeme Wienand
“Mythologies of the Discarded” opens on Saturday 28th October at Peacock Gallery, Auburn. All welcome.
The exhibition presents the work of international and local artists Maria Grazia Tata, Jody Graham, Sepideh Farzam, Jan Cleveringa and Bahman Kermany whose installations are deeply rooted in mythology, our relationship with nature, sustainability and transformation.
Curated by Nazanin Marashian.
Exhibition Launch and Artist Talks – Saturday 28 October 2017, 1.30 – 3.30pm at The Peacock Gallery.
Address
Auburn Botanic Gardens
Corner of Chiswick and Chisholm Roads, Auburn
OPENING HOURS
Monday: Closed
Tuesday to Sunday: 11am-4pm
(Appointments for tour groups can be organised outside these hours)
To view flyer and more information about workshops connected to this exhibition click link below.
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Jody Graham – Drawn from the Discarded – installation of drawing tool – 2016/17