Suzanne Archer 2012 Tutor for CONTEXTART
SUZANNE ARCHER has had 32 solo exhibitions, the most recent being Afterlife at Maitland Regional Art Gallery in 2010 which is now touring to a selection of Regional Galleries. She has participated in many Group exhibitions and has won numerous art awards including the Wynne Prize for Landscape AGNSW in 1994 and most recently the 2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing at the AGNSW. In 1993 she was awarded a Fellowship from the Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council. Collections include the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Australian National Gallery, and the National Gallery of Victoria. She is represented by Wilson Street Gallery in Sydney and lives and works in Wedderburn NSW. Her next exhibition Library of Disturbance will be at Wilson Street Gallery in September 2011.
NB: Suzanne’s two-day workshop will concentrate on drawing whereas the four-day workshop will begin with one day of drawing and then students will be able to choose whether they want to concentrate on developed drawings or paintings.
Above: Susan Archer in her studio
Workshops
2-DAY Workshop: THE ROLE OF THE FOUND OBJECT in developing ideas for DRAWING (Sat/Sun April 14 & 15). This is a workshop designed to take you from carefully studied drawings of found objects to the development of more creative & imaginative drawings using compositions arranged from your own research. The tutor will bring a small number of natural found objects and small skulls and insects from her own collection but it will be a great advantage if you can bring your own specimens including botanical and other natural objects (your workshop will also be close to bush surroundings). This will give you the opportunity to study in detail some possibly unfamiliar and certainly inspiring objects, to gain extra insight into subjects we often take for granted and the opportunity to investigate more personal image making. No materials fee.Enrol Now
Above:'The Gift Horse Dozen' by Susan Archer. A suite of 12 drawings each 76 x
57cm - 2005- Charcoal,pastel & acrylic paint on pape
4-DAY Workshop THE ROLE OF THE FOUND OBJECT in developing ideas for DRAWING & PAINTING (from Mon afternoon April 16th to Friday noon, April 20th).Like the 2-Day option, this is a workshop designed to take you from carefully studied drawings of found objects to the development of more creative & imaginative drawings AND paintings using compositions arranged from your own research. The tutor will bring some found objects including small skulls and insects from her own collection but it will be a great advantage if you can bring your own specimens including botanical and other natural objects (your workshop will also be close to bush surroundings). This will give you the opportunity to study in detail some possibly unfamiliar and certainly inspiring objects, to gain extra insight into subjects we often take for granted and the opportunity to investigate more personal image making. No materials fee. Enrol Now
