Drawing, Painting and Sensory Knowing Exhibition

Drawing, Painting and Sensory Knowing Exhibition

Exhibition Curators: Danielle Fusco, Dr Robert Brown and Emma Rickards

"Drawing is a process of working from the general to the specific… a process that moves from inquiry and analysis to empathy and expression – from ‘finding’ to ‘telling’". Goldstein, N. (1986). A Drawing Handbook: Themes, Tools, and Techniques. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

In the level 1 Breadth subject Drawing, Painting & Sensory Knowing, students investigate a range of drawing and painting methods, materials and techniques. These experiences are analysed through written reflections and linked to learning theories, including artistic inquiry and children’s early symbolism.

Throughout the twelve-week course students, who mostly come with limited prior art practice experience, are encouraged to explore and interpret forms in personal and expressive ways. Workshop sessions held in the studio and at the National Gallery of Victoria afford experiences that develop perceptive awareness, visual analysis and ‘sensory knowing’. In the later part of the course paintings are produced that both respond to existing works and explore individual themes, with students learning about the properties and potential of their chosen topic and medium.

This exhibition showcases a selection of student works produced during DPSK workshop sessions, focussing in particular on our drawing program. Here, students explored such methods as analytical, contour and gesture drawing whilst sensitively describing form, space and proportion.