Installation Collage with Meredith Hughes

Thursdays > 6:00pm – 8:30pm

Term 2 | 10 May – 14 June

This workshop is inspired by the collage of French Surrealists, contemporary installation practice and artistic traditions that use recycled materials. We will use found images and textures to create installation-based artwork. Each week, we will look at work by professional artists who use collage and installation differently and we will experiment with a variety of collage-based techniques.

Content >

10 May:
Translation
Slideshow: Artists who translate collage into wall-based work.
Techniques: Repurposing imagery and materials. Methods of translating images/forms in different media. Playing with these results on a small scale.

17 May:
Collaging Pattern
Slideshow: Artists who use pattern and collage.
Techniques: Exploiting patterns for dynamic effects. Patterned with non-patterned collage, directionality and stripes, outlines.

24 May:
Repetition
Techniques: Repetition and the hand. Exploring tensions between repeated and organic images.

31 May:
Texture, or Feeling the Wall
Slideshow: Artists who use existing texture and collage.
Techniques: Combining textures in wall-based work. Considering aesthetic concerns when working with texture directly on the wall.

7 June:
Scale
Techniques: Using projection to manipulate scale. Translating images we have produced in alternative scale using projection.

14 June:
Review and present
Surveying what we have produced, we will install work we have produced in a wall-based work. We will consider documentation issues and present to the group.

Costs >

$245

Friends of BAC cardholders receive a 10% discount.

Participants will need a camera or phone that takes high-quality images to document their work. Any interesting textures or materials that can be cut out are also welcome; the more diversity the better. Think old books, discarded papers, textured and patterned fabrics, prints, old clothing, old photographs, old letters…anything you are happy to cut up and share!

More info >

Please contact Belconnen Arts Centre via email, or phone (02) 6173 3300.