September 18 – 19, 2024, 10 am – 12:30 pm

Many thanks to the artist Emily Hunt for her workshop introducing our participants to Papier Mâché: The most underrated artist technique & Painting & Collage during the basic course within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.

“The course will begin with a short introduction into history of papier mâché as resourceful and unique technique used throughout history in China, Mexico and Europe. Papier mâché is an economical building material for a variety of traditional and ceremonial activities, as well as in arts and crafts.

We will turn to look at resourceful contemporary artists that use this technique in their work, for effect and scale. Contemporary artists such as Agnes Scherer, Katie Stout, Raquel Caballero, Margot DeMarco, Roberto Benavidez, James Morrison and Will Kurtz. I will also discuss the uses of papier mâché in my own practice, as a substitute for wood and for its affordability. To begin the practical course, we will start to construct our sculpture, thinking about whether it will be a pedestal, shelf or frame. The course will cover a technique that is thoroughly tested for strength and speed.” (Text by courtesy of Emily Hunt)

Emily Hunt (born Sydney, 1981) creates ornamental, figurative ceramics. Her history as a rare-book dealer has informed her encyclopedic approach to her art-making, taking influences from the history of ornament, visionary art, big-ego personalities and scholarly magical texts. She creates world-building installations that reflect automatism in ceramic forms. Her work articulates the concept of the collapse of a macro & micro world view, and walking as a magical tool. From 2017 to 2018, she created large new body of ceramics and etchings for exhibition in Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power at UQ Art Museum (AU). Her etchings were installed on alongside Hans Baldung Grien and Albrecht Dürer. The invitation to create work for an exhibition about witchcraft was a turning point in her research and Hunt started to delve into the earliest representations of women as witches. The result has been her on-going fascination into the history of western esotericism, magick and the occult in print history.

More information on the Emily Hunt Website and on Instagram.