VINYL VISTA | 26 SEP – 24 OCT
Pachamama playing music

Vinyl Vista fish

DATES:

Thursday 26 September 6-8pm – Drawing
Thursday 3 October 6-9pm – Printmaking
Thursday 10 October 6-8pm – Creating a collaborative work
Thursday 17 October 6-8pm – Designing
Thursday 24 October 6-8pm – Installation at Tuggeranong Arts Centre

 

COST: Free

Details

This five-part collaborative mural making project for young people starts in the last week of September. In Vinyl Vista, participants will work with a team of professional artists to develop skills in drawing and printmaking, and work to create vinyl designs for installation in TAC’s gender-neutral bathroom. Sessions include drawing with Robbie Karmel, printmaking with Clare Jackson, creating a collaborative work with Emma Rani Hodges, designing the mural, and installing the mural at TAC. The program is open to young people aged 16 – 25. Participants must attend all sessions and places are strictly limited to 12. Vinyl Vista will run weekly on Thursday evenings, from 26 September to 24 October.

Session 1: Drawing

In this class the participants will engage in the fundamentals of drawing with tutor Robbie Karmel. They will learn about scale, composition, and mark-making to gain the confidence to start designing for the vinyl installation.

Session 2: Printmaking

Participants will learn the process of printmaking using a printing-press. They will learn the importance of creating recognisable shapes and the use of negative space to create effective designs. These techniques will be applied in the design of the vinyls for the installation.

Session 3: Creating a Collaborative Work

Participants will create their own designs, which they will work together with the rest of the group to add to a collaborative collage, developing the skills needed to create a cohesive design for the vinyl installation.

Session 4: Designing

Participants will draw their own designs using the skills from the previous workshops. Their designs will be later be translated into vinyl for the installation. They will also start planning the composition of the elements in the gender-neutral bathroom at TAC for installation at the next session.

Session 5: Installation

Final installation of vinyl design in the gender-neutral bathroom at TAC Once all the drawings have been translated to vinyl, participants will get to install their own designs in the gender-neutral bathroom at TAC and learn the skills of applying vinyl.

About the Artists

Robbie Karmel

Robbie Karmel completed his PhD at UNSW A+D and returned to Canberra in 2019 to establish Studio in Mitchell with Richard Blackwell. His research and practice explore concepts of mimetic representation, phenomenological embodiment, perception, tool use, and representation through expanded drawing practices, extending into printmaking, sculptural and performative methods.

Working with charcoal, oil stick and graphite on paper or timber surfaces, Karmel maps out the body relying on the intermodal array of senses, challenging dominant opticentric modes of picture making. This work includes the production of studio furniture, apparatus, and tools to facilitate and interrupt solo and collaborative performative drawing processes. Karmel has had solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth and has undertaken residencies nationally and internationally.

Clare Jackson

Clare is an artist, printmaker, and educator living on Ngunnawal Ngambri Country. She has been a dedicated member of the print community since she graduated from Printmedia and Drawing at ANU School of Art (Hons. 1st Class) in 2013. Her work has been featured in shows around Australia, including as a finalist in the Fremantle Print Prize and Peebles Print Prize. Clare’s awards include the Early Career Printmaker Award at Inkmasters Cairns 2018, and Highly Commended in the M16 Drawing Prize in 2015 and 2021. Clare has undertaken residencies at BigCi Wollemi National Park, The Estonian Printing Museum, The Art Vault Mildura, Vermont Studio Center USA, and Lancaster Press Fiji. Clare teaches in etching, relief printing, screen printing, and lithography, and has printed for artists such as April Phillips, Kieren Karritpul, Omar Musa, and Arone Meeks.

Emma Rani Hodges

Emma Rani Hodges, an award-winning artist, graduated from Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Visual Arts and has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally. They have worked as an arts educator at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Girls Grammar and in Tuggeranong Arts Centre’s Messengers youth intervention and children’s art programs. Their practice explores intergenerational trauma, mental illness, migration and multiethnic identity. Fluctuating between image, text and object, Hodges’s work resists easy categorisation.