2018
MASTERCLASS
with the following Artists
LYNNETTE GRIFFITHS - MARION GAEMERS - LYNNE ADAMS
Tweed Regional Gallery
SHONA WILSON - CARLA GOTTGENS
Held onsite in Brunswick Sculpture Walk
MASTERCLASS
with the following Artists
LYNNETTE GRIFFITHS - MARION GAEMERS - LYNNE ADAMS
Tweed Regional Gallery
SHONA WILSON - CARLA GOTTGENS
Held onsite in Brunswick Sculpture Walk
LYNNETTE GRIFFITHS & MARION GAEMERS
Marion Gaemers & Lynnette Griffiths
Marion Gaemers & Lynnette Griffiths have worked collaboratively using marine debris and nets creating large-scale installations. Recently exhibiting together at 2017 Ghost nets of the Ocean Singapore, South Australian Art Gallery, Strand Ephemera Townsville 2016 Sydney Biennale SculpturebytheSea, Sydney Sculpture Botanica, Cairns Botanic Gardens 2015 Strand Ephemera Townsville, Super-sized Bling, KickArts, Cairns
Marion Gaemers & Lynnette Griffiths will be providing a Masterclass at the Tweed Regional Gallery
View the works of these artists whom have been working with Ghost nets and creating profound works which reflect upon the waters and fishing practices. Beaches are now full of abandoned plastics. Nets and ropes abandoned by users of the oceans are causing huge pollution problems effecting all marine life and water quality. These sailing ship installations are created using this dangerous material to highlight this problem. Sails of boats and boat forms are made using cane and bamboo, the sail and hull of the boat are covered with net and rope.
Join the woman in a Masterclass learning weaving techniques to create a small sculpture using beach rope and net.
Using recycled material participants will be guided through making a marine animal or bird of their own choice.
Marion Gaemers & Lynnette Griffiths have worked collaboratively using marine debris and nets creating large-scale installations. Recently exhibiting together at 2017 Ghost nets of the Ocean Singapore, South Australian Art Gallery, Strand Ephemera Townsville 2016 Sydney Biennale SculpturebytheSea, Sydney Sculpture Botanica, Cairns Botanic Gardens 2015 Strand Ephemera Townsville, Super-sized Bling, KickArts, Cairns
Marion Gaemers & Lynnette Griffiths will be providing a Masterclass at the Tweed Regional Gallery
View the works of these artists whom have been working with Ghost nets and creating profound works which reflect upon the waters and fishing practices. Beaches are now full of abandoned plastics. Nets and ropes abandoned by users of the oceans are causing huge pollution problems effecting all marine life and water quality. These sailing ship installations are created using this dangerous material to highlight this problem. Sails of boats and boat forms are made using cane and bamboo, the sail and hull of the boat are covered with net and rope.
Join the woman in a Masterclass learning weaving techniques to create a small sculpture using beach rope and net.
Using recycled material participants will be guided through making a marine animal or bird of their own choice.
SHONA WILSON
Shona Wilson
'COLLABORATIONS WITH NATURE'
"I have been facilitating these Ephemeral Art workshops for the past 4 years since I developed the idea from my studio practice, which has engaged with natural found materials for the past 25 years.'
Workshops cover theory, history and current /practices of Ephemeral Art imagery of Shona’s practice and Ephemeral Art in general.
Participants are led through a range of short exercises to ground them into the environment and begin finding ways to engage with its various materials and elements.
Create ephemeral art works enabling participants to realise their ideas and grow their ephemeral art toolbox.
Participants and Shona tour around all the artworks created experiencing and discoveries that contributed to or derived from their process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXXmgt1w63E&authuser=1
LYNNE ADAMS
Lynne Adams
Lynne Adams is an environmental artist who, for over a decade, has been creating vivid flower sculptures from recycled materials, especially recycled plastic bottles. Lynne has aimed to raise awareness of the impacts of consumerism, waste and pollution.
Lynne has exhibited at a number of public sculpture events including Thursday Plantation, Ballina; artsCape, Byron Bay and Swell Sculpture Festival, Currumbin. Lynne has achieved a number of awards with her ‘Bromeliads’ and ‘Tulips’.
Create an art work inspired by recycling addressing the overload placed onto the environment. Learn techniques to transform recycled plastic containers into flowers and coral.
CARLA GOTTGENS
Carla Gottgens
"Professional photographer Carla Gottgens will take you on a photo walk around the exhibition precinct, suggesting different ways of “seeing”.
This workshop encourages those using digital SLR’s to switch your camera off auto and try different ways to approach your photographic subject.
Carla will assist you in basic manual photography that will give you a few tips and tricks to push your photography further.
The workshop will cover how to use both your shutter speed and aperture independently and tasks will be given to put these new found skills to use.
If you only have a phone camera, don’t despair, there will also be enough to get you trying different angles that will set your photos apart.
People bringing digital SLR's that are NOT Nikon or canon are advised to bring their instruction manual.
As a professional photographer for over 18 years, Carla has photographed just about everything including Prime Ministers, international tennis, gold mines and ghost towns. She uses photography as the starting point in all of her sculptural work and installations and happily balances the two professions. Selected as a keynote speaker with Nikon Australia, Carla aims to encourages her students to shoot like a pro with an artistic twist, the best rules are the ones that can be broken to achieve awesome images.”