Workshop EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING by Emily Hunt

“The desire to represent the self is a primal instinct, an artist’s quest to convey the essence of human experience. A portrait is a likeness, and in looking back over the history of Renaissance portraiture one finds that likeness is not just an accurate recounting of surface detail. The best portraitists, such as Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jan van Eyck, and Raphael were able to convey the character of their sitters. They distorted what they saw before them to their advantage, accentuating physiognomic details – a long nose, wrinkles – in order to capture the nature of their subject.

DAY 1:
The first day of the course will open with a dense rollercoaster of a visual presentation, with exceptional examples of portraiture from the Renaissance to German New-Objectivity portraiture. We will play with three unusually different methods – miniature painting, glass painting and silhouette portraiture. We will discuss outcomes within the group setting.

DAY 2:
Jumping off from where we left off the day before, the presentation will cover the immense various aesthetic styles in contemporary self/portraiture. We will look at the work of Alice Neel, Jenny Saville, Doran Langberg, Salman Toor, Chantelle Joffe, Antonia Showering, Hamishi Farah, Elizabeth Peyton, Marlene Dumas, Jordan Casteel, Chloe Wise, Tom Polo and further more.

The second day we will build a simply frame for a small silk painting for a portraiture. The second exercise will rift off the work of Jim Nutt, using the technique of collage to create the basis for a “unidentified woman” portrait. We will discuss outcomes within the group setting.” (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.