Summer School 2025 Sculpture

Summer School 2025 | Sculpture

SOUTH BANK BRISBANE 9th & 10th APRIL 2025

Spend two inspiring days with acclaimed artists Carolyn V Watson and Keith Burt, each offering distinct approaches to sculpture. Carolyn’s workshop explores innovative techniques for object-based construction, focusing on composition, identity, and experimental surface treatments. Keith’s session delves into expressive clay head studies, teaching the fundamentals of form, emotion, and character through tactile exploration.

Together, these workshops celebrate sculpture as a dynamic medium, offering fresh perspectives and techniques to enrich your teaching practice and personal creativity. Dedicate time to expand your skills, recharge your artistic energy, and engage deeply with ideas that inspire professional and personal growth.

Carolyn V Watson

This dynamic workshop offers participants practical, adaptable skills to incorporate sculpture and object-based construction into their classrooms.

Participants will engage in hands-on activities, including creating wire armatures, constructing cane frameworks, and exploring effective building techniques. The session will also focus on composition, identity, and experimental surface treatments, all while working from references to inspire and shape the creative process.

Don’t miss this unique to work directly with Carolyn V Watson, featured as a case study in Creative Inquiry: Visual Art for Queensland Senior Secondary Students.

Discover the concepts of evolving alternate representations and meaning within contemporary and personal contexts. This workshop offers valuable insights into Carolyn’s innovative practice while providing fresh perspectives and techniques to inspire both teaching and creative exploration. Elevate your art-making journey and engage with cutting-edge ideas in contemporary art education.

For over 20 years, Carolyn V Watson has used her art practice to comprehend and chronicle her life history and experiences. Watson’s sculptural responses make explicit the contemplative and multilayered nature of her work.

Anchoring her practice in a place between the natural and the unknown, she meticulously builds on a bedrock of authentic objects. Her final pieces appear at once familiar but also strange and other-worldly.

A QCA Alum, Watson is a multi-award-winning artist, whose work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Australia. Her work is held in international and Australian public and private collections.

Keith Burt

Heads in Clay

Join five-time Archibald finalist Keith Burt for a workshop focused on sculpting expressive clay head studies. Perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike, this session introduces the fundamentals of modelling heads in clay, including understanding proportions and capturing the character and emotion of a subject.

Under Keith’s expert guidance, you’ll explore the raw, tactile nature of clay while developing your skills in form and expression. With an emphasis on creativity and experimentation, this workshop provides a supportive and engaging environment to bring your ideas to life.

Discover how drawing can be a powerful tool for exploration, expression, and innovation. Whether you're interested in expanding your traditional drawing practice or experimenting with mixed media techniques, these workshops offer a rare opportunity to learn from two renowned artists.

Join artists Laith McGregor and Nic Plowman for two unique workshops that delve into experimentation and play, with drawing at their core.

Through hands-on exercises, demonstrations, and discussions, Laith and Nic will guide you in pushing the boundaries of traditional drawing methods. Explore new ways of working, experiment with collage and mixed media techniques, and develop your skills.

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