WHAT: Giant Puppet Making Workshops
WHEN: Sun 22 & 29 Sep + Sun 13 & 20 Oct
TIMES: 10am – 1pm
LOCATION: Eddison Park, Woden
COST: Free, drop in
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES:
Sunday 27 October, 12 – 1pm at Eddison Park
Sunday 3 November, 12 – 1pm at Farrer Park
Details
The whole family can enjoy some free fun, in four 3-hour community workshops with artists Julia Higgs and Tom Buckland. Participants of TAC’s Giant Puppet Making Workshops will co-create large- giant brightly coloured puppets. Taking inspiration from the bird and botanical life of the park to create the characters, participants will work with the artists to build the armatures and then collaboratively, decorate, paper-mache and paint the puppets. There will be a focus on the use of recycled materials. At the completion of these workshops, the participants are invited to become puppeteers and participate in a free public performance in Eddison Park. Inclusive of all ages and demographics, this project aims to bring the community together and provide an opportunity to learn new skills. The workshops run Sun 22 & 29 Sep + Sun 13 & 20 Oct. 10am – 1pm in Eddison Park, Woden
About the Artists
Tom Buckland deals in a correspondence of imaginary worlds, narrative and storytelling is a key component in his sculpture and performance works. He is a voracious bricolagist and collector of found objects with which he creates work that is emphatically process-orientated, proudly displaying a unique DIY spirit. Buckland also plays with audience interaction demolishing the invisible barrier between onlooker and artwork. Buckland graduated from the Australian National University School of Art with honours in 2015 and has exhibited widely since.
Julia Higgs is a multidisciplinary artist, whose practice centres around performance art, drawing and performative drawing. For more than a decade, Higgs has worked across a range of media including sculpture, drawing, printmaking and installation, gaining multidisciplinary skills through completion of a Master of Visual Arts and undertaking artistic residencies locally and internationally. Higgs has exhibited widely in multiple solo and group exhibitions, facilitated workshops, created public performance works, and been part of festival and grant opportunities creating new work and engaging local communities. Higgs deploys both traditional and contemporary drawing techniques and processes that incorporate the body, printmaking and drawing, and continues to expand her practice through working in different environments while creating networks and collaborating. Performative drawing is a newer form of art expression that Higgs completely immersed herself in as Artist in Residence at 2019 Draw to Perform in the United Kingdom. Performative drawing involves engaging with situation, gesture, the body and movement – using action to create a final result through a temporal live event – and is concerned with process in order to create new dynamics through drawing.