Workshop EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING by Emily Hunt

“DAY 1: Reproductive Printmaking, The Copy, and Appropriation in Experimental Drawing
This course will chart the lineage of reproductive etchings in 16th European print culture through to contemporary examples of Appropriation Art of the 1980s and contemporary examples such as Richard Prince. Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of human-made visual culture. We discuss the difference between inspiration, copying, stealing, integrating and appropriating art. Two experimental drawing exercises will be undertaken that focus on the historical reference, the contemporary reproduction and the ready made.

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.