Drawn together: Drawing Intensive for Teachers
Nov 30, 2024 to Dec 1, 2024
Image: Installation shot from Adore you, 2023, The Drawing Gallery, National Art School. Photo by Tim Connolly.
About
When: Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December, 9am-4pm
Cost: FREE - workshop fees generously covered by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation. Participants are to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.
Who: Visual Arts Teachers at Government Schools
Where: Art Workshop, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
In Drawn Together, Visual Arts teachers will create a toolkit of drawing techniques and develop strategies for encouraging collaboration in the classroom. This workshop is a two-day intensive ‘boot camp’ for teachers acting as both a refresher in drawing skills and a chance to build new approaches to group work. Guided by practicing artists from the National Art School (NAS) participants will extend understanding of the drawing medium. We will focus on developing confidence in the fundamentals of observational drawing, whilst focusing on process and experimentation. Teachers will approach drawing with the intention of understanding drawing as more than just the creation of an image on a surface. They will learn new approaches for liberated mark making, taking risks, felt perception, and developing new skills in a fun and fast-moving workshop. The Sunday session will begin with a discussion of collaboration in historical and contemporary art practice. Teachers will then test a range of group drawing exercises designed to encourage risk-taking, problem-solving and play.
Wagga Wagga Art Galery is delighted to be hosting this professional development opportunity for area visual art teachers that will be facilitated by the National Art School.
NESA Accreditation
Completing Dobell Regional Teachers’ Workshop will contribute 12 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and assessment of NSW Curriculum/Early Years Learning Framework addressing standard descriptors 2.1.2, 2.2.2, 3.3.2, 3.4.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
What to bring: All materials will be supplied. Please bring your own lunch each day.
If you have any questions about the workshop, please contact:
Cecilia Jackson
Education Coordinator
National Art School
T: 9339 8751
E: cecilia.jackson@nas.edu.au
You will receive confirmation of registration via email by Friday 25 October.
Precedence will be given to applications in order of receipt.
About Luke Thurgate
Luke Thurgate is an artist living and working on Gadigal Land (Sydney). He teaches drawing and painting at the National Art School, where he graduated in 2021 with a Master of Fine Art. He has worked with educators and students for over two decades, having previously held public program roles at Adelaide Central School of Art, Art Gallery of South Australia and Newcastle Art Gallery. Having grown up in a small town on the far north coast of New South Wales, Luke is particularly passionate about working with regional audiences.
Luke’s multi-disciplinary studio practice explores the construction and deconstruction of identity in relation to romance, power, and otherness. Working across drawing, painting, sculpture and performance, his work appropriates the signifying capacity of the western canon, referencing processes, materials and imagery from Renaissance and Baroque art making.
Luke’s current work uses the monster as a surrogate ’other’ to explore tensions between parody, sincerity, menace, pathos, transgression, and vulnerability. Informed by a range of sources, including popular culture, and Catholic iconography, his practice transcribes the western canon through a lens of queer aesthetics and subjectivity.