Workshop EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING by Emily Hunt

“The Book as Source: Spontaneous idea collecting ~ Intensive drawing session
In this two-part experimental drawing course, we will cover the book as an eternal source material, providing ideas, concepts and free-thinking models for making spontaneous drawings. When one is stuck for ideas, the book is the place to turn. Emily Hunt will discuss how she has used different books to create bodies of work for exhibition. She will also discuss the wonder of bookstores, their divinatory potential, and the cost of their disappearance.

On the first day, there will be short introduction to the history and contemporary use of artist books in drawing, printmaking and collage. The lecture will begin by covering surrealist artist books and investigate current contemporary artist books, occasionally referred to as ‘zines’. Producing and selling zines is one of the best way to create an artwork to be seen by a larger audience, without the restrictions of applying to galleries or installing exhibitions.

Using the library as Berlin Art Institute as a location, we will choose a book at random to focus upon for the two day course, discussing each book and delving into the ideas around them. As we pass the book on, we will share a piece of information. The drawings and discussion will create connections that will lead to how and why the drawings were created.

DAY 2: The Book as Source: Spontaneous idea collecting ~ Installation of mini-exhibition
The course will begin with a short presentation of unusual places and sources for inspiration in Berlin. On the second day of the course, we will collaboratively decide the best drawings from the intensive drawing session the day before. We will install the exhibition together, discussing how images speak to each other. The outcomes will be discussed.

This model of connecting ideas and mind-mapping will also be used to create a visual artist statement, as opposed to a written traditional artist statement. This will be thought over as homework and spoken upon in dialogue in a group tutorial setting, at the end of the second day.” (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.