Image: Deborah KELLY The Gods of Tiny Things 2019 (video still)
Explore the art of collage and learn the practices of cutting and composition with award-winning artist Deborah Kelly. During this full-day workshop, learn to play purposefully with pictures and develop a range of technical skills to create original works that make the old new again.
Delivered with technical demonstrations, discussion and storytelling, Kelly will guide participants to reimagine and deconstruct the past in playful and poignant ways. This workshop will help you turn discarded imagery into treasure with bold and beautiful rescues, resistances and reinterpretations
Materials provided: Paper, glue, mats, brushes and knives; some vintage imagery from Kelly’s personal archive.
Materials to bring: You are welcome to bring vintage reference books/art books/journals with images to cut up, those with matte paper are perfect. Damaged or black & white images are fine! Please note though that thin or shiny paper is hard to use, so please choose carefully.
When: Tuesday 7 February, 9AM–4.30PM
Registration and payment essential: T 03 5760 2619 or gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au
Cost: Gallery Member $149; non-Member $199
Where: Benalla Art Gallery – Patricia [Pat] Gardner Studio
About the Artist: Since 2011 Deborah Kelly has been investigating the expansion of the humble, lo-fi art of collage from private into public, from solo to social, from object to process, through open workshops around Australia, in Leipzig, London, Istanbul, Zagreb, Aarhus, Berlin and Bandung.
Her recent collage animation, The Gods of Tiny Things, partly produced through workshops, premiered at Pool Festival in Berlin and in December 2019 won Mexico City’s Dulac Avant Garde Award. The work is currently on show in Between the Details: Video Art from the ACMI Collection at Benalla Art Gallery.
This workshop is presented to coincide with the Gallery’s current exhibition Between the Details: Video Art from the ACMI Collection
Benalla Art Gallery acknowledges the support of our technology partner Panasonic and local sponsor Ray White Benalla. This project has been made possible with support from the Victorian Government through the Living Local Regional Grants Program and Engage!
