A Dog Day Out - Dog inspired writing workshop with Helen Hopcroft

Artist and writer Helen Hopcroft will lead a dog-writing workshop at MAC yapang. Be inspired by the exhibition of William Dobell's dogs, or bring a photograph or memory of your most interesting animal. Using ekphrastic writing techniques (i.e. writing in response to art or imagery), we will create short proses pieces about dogs.

Tickets

• General Admission $10 + BF
• Lake Arts Member $9 + BF

Details

• Limited capacity. Booking essential
• Participants are encoraged to bring along a photograph or memory of your pet
• Suitable for participants over the age of 14 years
• For enquiries please email mac@lakemac.nsw.gov.au

About the artist - Helen Hopcroft

Helen Hopcroft is a Tasmanian artist, writer and occasional performer who lives in Maitland. She holds a Master in Fine Arts (Painting) from the Royal College of Art and a Creative Writing PhD from Newcastle University. Helen has just been awarded Creative Australia’s Keesing Studio for Australian writers in Paris.

Helen’s publication list includes The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Art Monthly, Griffith Review and ArtsHub.com. She has been shortlisted for the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Newcastle Writers Festival joanne burns Microlit Award, and for the 2022 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing for her poem ‘The Howling’. Spineless Wonders recently published Helen’s erotic novella, The Nights, as an illustrated book with a foreword by Carmel Bird. The Nights was launched at the 2024 Newcastle Writers Festival.

Helen once spent a year dressed as Marie Antoinette for a piece of performance art titled My Year as a Fairy Tale and is currently writing a memoir/auto-fiction about the experience. She can be found online at @myyearasafairytale or www.helenhopcroft.com