Program overview
Bush Studio: Secondary visual arts professional learning is a practical visual arts workshop for secodnary Visual Arts teachers, including those who teach related VET, content endorsed, board endorsed and life skills courses. Participants are given the opportunity to refine their skills and expertise in specific art forms as they work alongside carefully selected artists to observe, interpret and respond to their immediate environment at Ku-ring-gai National Park, Bobbin Head.
Teachers will receive detailed handouts, including activity suggestions and supply lists, that they can take back to their classrooms, integrating new art making techniques into future teaching programs.
Participating teachers are invited to work alongside artists Emily Besser and Hayley West to discover the intersection of painting, drawing and ceramics through dialogue between materials and artists' processes. Experiment with numerous painting and drawing mediums in order to overcome preconceptions of their scope. Create dramatic juxtapositions through varied scale, density of brushstrokes and pigment, colour and texture as you harness the possibilities of paper as a surface.
Refine hand building techniques with clay and explore surface treatments as you redefine their limitations. Be challenged to consider alternative sources of meaning in artworks through activities inspired by the narrative of the landscape as you resolve a process based collection of works.
