Workshop EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING by Emily Hunt

“DAY 1: Drawing with Watercolour
The course will begin with a short introduction focusing on contemporary artists that use the medium of watercolour in their work, including Marlene Dumas, Maria Lassnig, Rebecca Morgan, Henry Darger and Marcel Dzama. Watercolour paint is a portable medium, you can travel with it anywhere and you need only a small table to work on. It is an expressive, translucent and affordable medium that encourages you to practice and experiment. The ability to layer watercolour is possible because of the short drying time. It also lends itself to collage techniques.

In the experimental course we will cover techniques with salt effects, backgrounds, layering pattern making and collage. It will be an intensive session with 7 exercises that will focus on finishing an artwork for exhibition. A selection of found printed-matter will be used as source material for inspiration and spontaneous decision making in this course.

DAY 2: Experimental framing ideas and finishing artworks
When framing paper works in a non-traditional way, it requires an experimental approach. The course will begin with a short introduction to different approaches contemporary artists use when installing paper works. A short demonstration will be given on the material of Worbla and Papier-mâché.

Then we will continue with 7 further exercises, picking up where we left off from the day before. As we work in an intensive concentration during class, we will reflect at the end of the session which skills and techniques have developed over the two sessions. We will discuss outcomes and finished works.” (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.