Workshop EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING by Emily Hunt

“DAY 1: Faces in the crowd – Drawing from collage
The course will begin with a short introduction to the history and contemporary use of caricature in print-media and painting. Caricature lends itself to exaggeration, excess, humour and play. At the centre of caricature is the human face, and its infinite combinations. Through using the human face as a landscape of features, this course will push and extend drawing techniques using the calligraphic nib. A series of exercises will focus on incorporating collage techniques as a starting point for drawing the human face. A selection of unusual vintage magazines will be used as source material for inspiration and spontaneous decision making in this drawing class.

DAY 2: Pareidolia and Surrealist drawing techniques
Pareidolia is a phenomenon where the artist looks and finds an object, pattern or meaning in a form – be that a square of wallpaper or a billow of clouds. The class will open with Surrealist examples of pareidolia created using once well-known but now forgotten automatic (craft) techniques such as decalcomania, monoprinting and entopic graphomania. The introduction will look at how contemporary artists use pareidolia as a tool for decision making in their painting and drawing. A series of exercises will cover surrealist techniques, the aim being to find or generate images from within the unconscious, making use of chance effects and random processes. We will be using pareidolia as the conceptual framework for this course and as a means for exploring experimental drawing avenues in your art practice.” (Text by courtesy of Emily Hunt)

Emily Hunt (b. 1981) lives and works in Berlin since 2017. Hunt has been running Big Ego Books since 2015. She was the co-Dictator of DUKE Magazine, an artist magazine focusing on Australian artists and thrift culture between 2005-2009. She has shown extensively in Australia since 2012, including at the Museum for Contemporary Art Sydney, First Draft, Casula Powerhouse, UTS Gallery, Artspace, Bundanon Trust, UQ Art Museum, KNULP and The Commercial gallery.Her work is held in collections that include The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (CCWA), Artbank, and Manly Art Gallery. She was awarded Marten Bequest Scholarship for Painting (2015), and Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant (2017), with two grants from Australia Council for the Arts (2014 & 2019). Her work has recently been shown at the Arp Museum Remagen, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Zitadelle Spandau (ZAK) and Sim Smith Gallery, London. In 2020 Hunt was selected as a participant in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt. In 2021, Hunt’s first solo exhibition in Berlin opened at Galerie Wedding.

More information on the Emily Hunt Website.