Graham Marchant 2012 Tutor for CONTEXTART
GRAHAM MARCHANT has over thirty years experience as a practising artist and art educator. Trained in the UK, gaining a BA and MA both at Honours level, he has taught extensively in Australia, America and the United Kingdom. Working in the mediums of drawing, painting and printmaking, Graham intently observes and explores the nature of various objects and the physical environment. Through an array of objects and fabrics placed in different settings, he examines the interplay of light, colour, and particularly pattern. These works are imbued with meticulous detail and energy that has become characteristic of his work. Graham has held over twenty one-person exhibitions and has been the recipient of several fellowships and artist residencies. He resigned his Senior Lecturer position at the University of Western Sydney in 2003 to concentrate on his own practice. Graham is the Past President of the Sydney Printmakers and a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute. Web Site grahammarchant.com.au
Above: Graham Marchant in his studio
Workshops
2-DAY Workshop: IMAGERY FROM NATURE Print / Art work / Textile Design(April 14 & 15). This workshop is based on the notion put forward by William Morris and the Arts and Craft movement of bringing the garden into the studio and exploring the ‘produce’ in the realms of image making and design. There will be the opportunity to transform designs into lino or wood blocks printed without a press - and printed in a way that you can duplicate on your kitchen table back home. However if you are mainly interested in developing your image in other ways, as a mixed media art work, that can be accommodated too. What is important is how the source material is interpreted and adapted to your own specific needs. As the rich environment of the Blue Mountains surrounds us, we will be basing our artwork on natural flora collected locally, and use this as our starting point for a print, art work or textile design. Through drawings we will develop the image in an appropriate manner and transfer it onto our lino or wood block, which can then be printed as a stand-alone print, greeting card or step and repeat for fabric. We will examine how William Morris developed his images from nature and the strategies that he employed to produce the seminal designs we have all grown to love. All levels welcome. Materials fee of $20 per person for inks, proofing paper & supplementary materials (fee payable to your tutor in class). Enrol Now
Above:'Silk Quilts and Manuscripts' Graham Marchant
4-DAY Workshop. STILL LIFE – Jewels of the Patterned World (from Mon afternoon April 16th to Friday noon, April 20th). This workshop will be based on “still life” with a specific emphasis on incorporating textiles and pattern along with natural flora into a still life arrangement and developing this into final artworks. Participants are asked to bring along a small collection of patterned fabrics and a few patterned objects: jugs, plates etc. These will be organized into individual studio based still life arrangements, supplemented by local flora. From these arrangements we will begin preparatory drawings and studies with two final works in mind. You may choose to vary your medium, between say watercolour, pastel, mixed media, oil paint or you may choose to use the same medium for the final variations. The focus will be on ways to record and emphasise pattern and design within the still life images you produce. The images may well include something of the surrounding bush and you will be encouraged to let the image evolve beyond the purely descriptive in order to enhance your capacity to relate the nature of pattern to the natural world. The workshop will emphasise various techniques and strategies that you can employ for the production of your future artworks, embellished with the jewel like qualities of the patterned world. All levels welcome. No materials fee, but some specialist papers will be available from the tutor at cost.Enrol Now
Above:'Silk Quilts and Manuscripts' Graham Marchant
