14 & 15 SEPTEMBER
14 & 15 SEPTEMBER
Discover how easy and fun it is to create expressive portraits using ink and unconventional drawing tools like tennis balls and balsa wood. Who knew drawing could be this playful! By experimenting with everyday objects, you'll explore a wide range of marks and techniques, opening up new and unexpected ways of making art.
You'll learn a simple set of guidelines for constructing a front-facing portrait, while also expanding your understanding of what drawing can be beyond conventional tools. Through guided exercises, you'll build confidence, loosen your approach and embrace creative experimentation.
By the end of the workshop, you'll have completed three front-facing portraits, one in pencil and several in ink created with unconventional tools. You will leave 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, Lost Bear Gallery and Linton and Kay Gallery.
