16 & 17 SEPTEMBER
16 & 17 SEPTEMBER
Participants will tap into their inner palette to create an abstracted portrait. This workshop is suitable for beginners and intermediate level and will focus on abstract painting, creating surface, energy of colours, gestural mark-making and various painting tools and techniques. Our first canvas will be purely for experimentation, and the second will result in a self-portrait that expresses our inner selves through colour, abstraction, composition and mark-making.
Born in America, Sydney-based Kim Leutwyler migrated to Australia in 2012. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, printmedia and drawing. Leutwyler holds concurrent bachelor degrees in Studio and Art History from Arizona State University, and additionally graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Painting and Drawing degree.
Leutwyler's current body of work features paintings exploring notions of beauty, gender and queer identity. Her artwork has been exhibited in multiple galleries and museums throughout Australia and the United States. Some of Leutwyler's recent accolades include being selected as a finalist in the Archibald and Sulman Prizes, the Doug Moran Portrait Prize as well as the Portia Geach Memorial Award.
