Regenerate your approach to creative practice in a responsive, hands-on workshop with artist Valerie Kirk, at Mugga Mugga heritage site. Experiment with different media to create individual and group storyboards exploring place, history and time. A storyboard gathers references in a collage as a useful step in the design process. It can be made up of sketches, colour swatches, texture notations and words to guide creative production in any medium.
The workshop will be practical and interactive, drawing inspiration from Mugga Mugga Cottage with artist Valerie Kirk. Join the group to immerse yourself in nature and history, creatively processing your experience through:
● Wax rubbings on paper with watercolour
● Painted paper and cut out shapes
● Words that evoke your sense of place
● Stick and ink drawing
● Colour notations
● Sketch ideas
● Make do and mend.
Participants will respond in their own ways through the guided craft and design processes – research, gathering information, responding visually and thinking through making. As a group we will create a large storyboard which you can keep through a photograph. But also create your own storyboards as a starting point for craft and design in your chosen medium. Your storyboard can convey your source of inspiration, ideas and plans for making new work.
Maximum 20 people, children from 8 years old accompanied by an adult are welcome.
Tickets | Adult $80 | Concession/Member $70 | Child (under 18) $30 | Booking Essential
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Valerie Kirk is a Scottish-born Australian artist who completed a degree and postgraduate studies at Edinburgh College of Art, then came to work at the Australian Tapestry Workshop where she is now a board member. She explores ideas about moving between two countries, identity, place, and time. The most recent tapestry ‘Traces’ shows a remote ruined cottage in Scotland, a poignant reminder of the life and joy in the community that once filled the glens.
Image Credit: Courtesy of ACT Historic Places