14 & 15 SEPTEMBER
14 & 15 SEPTEMBER
In this workshop, you will discover how easy and fun it can be to create expressive portraits using ink and unconventional drawing materials such as tennis balls and balsa wood. Who knew drawing could be this playful! By experimenting with everyday objects, you will explore a wide range of marks and techniques, opening up new and unexpected ways of making art.
Participants will learn a simple set of guidelines for constructing a front-facing portrait, while also expanding their understanding of what drawing can be beyond conventional tools. Through guided exercises, you will build confidence, loosen your approach, and embrace creative experimentation.
By the end of the workshop, participants will complete three front-facing portraits: one in pencil and several in ink created with unconventional tools, leaving with new skills, fresh ideas, and a more adventurous approach to drawing.
Jody's arts practice encompasses drawing, mixed media, sculpture, performance and installation. Materiality and Mark Making are at the core of her work. She relentlessly explores new materials and investigates contemporary drawing techniques. To do this she builds on and then moves beyond conventional drawing processes in search of new methods and tools that connect drawing with the fundamental need to make symbolic marks.
Jody has had sixteen solo exhibitions and exhibits frequently in important group exhibitions. She won the Adelaide Drawing Prize in 2022, the Open Greenway Art Prize in 2017 (and local prize again in 2020) and has been a finalist in many major art prizes, including the 66th Blake Prize, Sculptures at Scenic World and at the Muswellbrook, Paddington, and NSW Parliament's Plein Air painting prizes.
Her work has been selected twice for the Kedumba Drawing Award Collection, and for the Jacaranda and Swan Hill Drawing Awards, and she has been a finalist in the Dobell, Rick Amor, and Tim Olsen drawing prizes.
Jody's work is held in the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings, the Perry Drawing Collection and in Waverley and Blacktown City Council collections, at the Western Sydney Institute, in the Nepean Arts and Design Centre, and in private collections nationally and in the UK, USA, Dubai and New Zealand. She is represented by Nanda/Hobbs and Lost Bear Gallery.
