WHEN: 6-8pm Tuesdays
DATES: 18 February – 25 March, 2025
COST: $255 (6 weeks)
Details
Develop paintings using acrylic paints with artist Yamile Tafur Rios. Explore methods of application, paint mixing and use of colour, and investigate how different surfaces respond to paint. Yamile will guide you through a journey of observing and developing still life compositions, and help you reflect on how your images communicate personal meaning. All materials are provided
About the Artist
Yamile Tafur Rios is a visual artist and educator from Colombia based in Canberra. She completed her bachelor degree in Visual Arts back in her country in 2012. She has done solo and group exhibitions between 2013 and 2019, she obtained financial support from the Colombian Ministry of Culture and from other institutions for some of her creative projects. Yamile is interested in research about manufacturing clothes, manual labour, everyday occupations and ways to belong as a subject of her work of art. Throughout her artistic production she has investigated her own unique experience of life to connect it with other community voices.
In 2022 she undertook the Residency Creative Recovery and Resilience Residency at Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres In ACT as an Emerging Artist, during that time she worked with Canberra based people who have lived an immigration experience in their life to connect community stories through art experiences. She is also was part of the Cahoots program 2022 for artists and producers to develop their practice with a small, critical community from diverse art forms and backgrounds.
In 2023 she was part of a collaborative work shown in Cahoots Lab, she has being exhibiting and working as an Educator and Independent Artist along different spaces in Canberra.
Yamile Tafur Rios. Image courtesy of the artist