PLAY WITH COLOUR
This Easter we have a big focus on COMMUNITY.
There are TWO Visual Arts workshops. Both involve participants in thinking about themselves as a part of a larger community.
The work that they create can stand alone as a separate piece of their own imagining. Or it can be joined with the work of others to form a cumulative celebration of community.
Due to HUGE demand we are now offering a
SECOND
Portrait-painting workshop on Saturday 6 April
ACRYLIC PORTRAIT PAINTING - Learn about painting in different styles and thinking about your own image in different ways. And then create your own unique and distinct self-portrait. Before you join it together to create a village garden of your very own community look and style!
DATE: Wednesday 3 April TIME: 9:00am - 12:00N
SECOND PORTRAIT PAINTING WORKSHOP
Saturday 6 April TIME: 9:00am - 12:00N
When booking please provide NAME & AGE of the young people you are booking and YOUR OWN contact details.
Participants should bring their own comfortable clothing, closed in shoes, favourite drinks and nut-free snacks.
Enquiries/bookings please email scott@ozplays.com
ABOUT YOUR WORKSHOP ARTIST: ALEX STALLING
Since graduating from the University of Southern Queensland with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) in 2009, Alex Stalling has held numerous solo exhibition, curated shows, directed galleries, taught regular workshops with a focus on extra curricular student classes at the Toowoomba Art Society, sat on various committees, presented and represented at various conferences, and has created public artworks across South East Queensland with a focus on Toowoomba.
In 2009 Stalling coordinated the Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery in South East Queensland. In 2011 Stalling and fellow artist Elysha Gould established made. Creative Space Toowoomba an Artist-Run Initiative which offers exhibition, workshops, consultancy, creative event management, professional development, an international residency program and advocacy for regional arts practices.
In her own practice Stalling has exhibited internationally in Bristol UK, New Zealand and the USA. Her work has been acquired by local government galleries and commissioned across South East Queensland. In 2012 Stalling designed and created the work for the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers public art project Play Me I’m Yours as well as a commission for an Ergon Energy Transformer.
In 2013 Stalling and Gould presented at Articulate: Queensland Regional Arts and Culture Conference on Creative Tanks: Promoting local artists and businesses through micro-residencies and cultural tourism.
As part of the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers she coordinated the 3 year of Creative Tanks and the public art project Real People Real Stories. In collaboration with Artslink QLD and Toowoomba Regional Council Stalling with the Community Coordinator for the 2013 initiative Animating Spaces Toowoomba.
Alex is available for professional development workshops, curation and co-ordination of exhibitions, artistic events and festivals, as well as exhibitions and commissions.
This project was made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, provided through Regional Arts Australia, administered in Queensland by Flying Arts Alliance.