Workshop Week

Workshop week is off to a great start with Photomedia turning the studio in to a pinhole camera on Monday. This one day workshop involved students first making the camera and then creating images from inside and ended with turning the studio back in to a studio! Anyone can make a pinhole camera. All you need is some black plastic and a lot of gaffa tape.

 

Workshop Week at TAFE

Workshop week is a time to try something new. The usual path is deviated from and we throw ourselves into the deep end of some strange and fascinating new methods of mark making. Sometimes old, sometimes new, sometimes borrowed and sometimes blue (that's the cyanotype workshop)

The workshop I conducted with Clare Weeks was all about making a time lapse animation. We had a lovely group of eager participants. The process can be time consuming but our group dove in head first and came up smiling. Several hundred images later and each member of the group had a completed animation by the end of the day. Some of which are displayed below for your enjoyment.

Thanks to the artists Sharon Williams, Patrick Maverty and Nicholas Grimes

Workshop Week 2012

Oh Oh it is Workshop Week again.. remember the Donkeys?

Well here is a little from the activity of 6th through 10th August. This will be on show in the Front Room Gallery in a few weeks. Look out for the wooden Holden.

My workshop was with basic Electronics and sound converted into some form of interactive art. Lots of soldering and buzzing.



The oscillators are small integrated circuits that are controlled with resisters and capacitors. In this case the drawing is a resister and the skateboard has a weight sensor on it. We also built small amplifiers (1/2 watt) to pump up the volume.

Bright Sparkes

Watch out for a couple of our artists working on Bright Sparkes at Georgetown on this coming Saturday.

Ken O’Regan and Carolyn McKay are facilitating a lantern-making workshop on Saturday 3 September 2011 for Sparke Street residents.

On the following Saturday 10 September, residents will decorate the street-side exterior of their homes with the lanterns, and the section of Sparke Street between Christo Road and Moate Street will be closed to traffic from 5.30 – 7.30 pm for a street party.

The Bright Sparkes concept was the inspiration of community cultural worker, Brian Joyce, coordinated by Carolyn McKay, artist and recent returnee to the town of her birth, assisted by L!vesites and involving many Sparke Sreet residents.

Their blog is http://www.brightsparkeslivingplace.blogspot.com/