WHEN: 2-4pm Saturdays
DATES: 17 May – 21 June, 2025
COST: $255
Details
Explore the human body and how to draw it with artist Steven Holland. Steven will help you to develop a life drawing “tool kit” of skills, which will enable you to render the human form with confidence. Investigate techniques for establishing proportion, working with perspective, while you explore human anatomy in this open, supportive and relaxed course. Beginners are welcome and all materials are provided.
About the Artist
Steven Holland grew up in the bush in Western Australia where he developed keen interest in the local snakes. He studied visual art at Curtin University WA and completed postgraduate study at Canberra School of Art. In 1998 he received a Samstag Scholarship that enabled him to study Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art in London. Returning to Australia, he undertook a Doctorate on the topic of snakes and bronze at the Australian National University in 2016. A highly regarded, established sculptor, Steven completed major commissions for the Australian War Memorial in 2009 and 2020. His work is also held in the collections of Royal College of Art London, National Gallery of Australia (folio), Canberra Museum and Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and Sir Charles Gairdener Hospital, WA.
Steven Holland. Image Juliet Lea