Image: Kate Gorringe-Smith.
LAKE MODEWARRE
FIELD TRIP
SAT 30 APR, 11.00AM - 4.00PM
ART SESSION RUNS FOR 3HRS WITH ALLOCATED TIME INCLUDING TRAVEL
FREE
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FIELD TRIP places people at the centre of a dynamic and collective community activation of ancient crafts and performance. Geelong catchment boasts hives of creatives pursuing their art practice regardless of commercial attention. This project is about these hidden resources. How might their skill sets be the survival skills for millennials? COVID-19 has compounded barriers to creative skill acquisition for young people arising from screen-facing education and leisure. We position ‘creative’ as ‘clever’ through participation, intergenerational exchange, and collective creative activities, embracing ‘old ways of doing things’ as the essential ‘new way’ for today’s communities.
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We will be moving on grassed land, with some slight terrain variations.
Clothing is for all-weather but we do have access to a hall if it is raining. Please wear sturdy shoes and leg covering. Please bring your own lunch but we will provide tea/coffee.
This field trip takes us to Wadawurrung Country, Lake Modewarre, west of Geelong for a session facilitated by artists Jane Bartier and Kate Gorringe-Smith.
The landscape is wide and generous, low and intimate. The sky seems to be down to our own height and the colours of the water form lines with the vegetation. We can go slow and look closely for different elements of nature doing its own weaving and interacting. We can also leap around and land on changing landscapes. We will mostly listen and learn from each other and we will leave this place with shifting views.
We hope for this Field Trip to be a collaboration between the participants and the site. To help create a tangible keepsake we will use two methods of printmaking: mono-printing and cyanotype, both using found plant materials.
If you can, watch the story of Lake Modewarre before you come.
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Please arrive at Platform Arts for an 11 am departure. A bus will be provided for participants.
The workshop facilitators will provide participants with a musing a couple of days prior to the workshop. You won't need to do anything but think about this prompt. This will be emailed to participants.
The workshop at Lake Modewarre will go from 12pm - 3pm.
Participants will arrive back at Platform Arts around 4pm.
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Jane Bartier
www.janebartier.com
Jane works in place; where she walks; and through her weaving and textile perspective, considers the landscape in which she undertakes her practice. Jane has moved her practice to capture walking as a component, going off loom and accessing discarded material of haybale twine and haybale plastic rolls. Her works can be sculptural, holey, large, knotted, repetitive. Jane seeks out conversation where living in unceded land, in a farming community and where environmental crises lead to debate, to ask questions of action, inaction, activism and silence.
Kate Gorringe-Smith kategorringesmith.com.au
Melbourne-based printmaker Kate Gorringe-Smith works in 2D and 3D form and installation. Her work is intimately connected to the environment, and she explores ways to convey the sense of the rich and unique entanglement of site, plant and animal life. Her practice explores ways to connect works with specific sites, to reflect the experience of being in a place through printmaking and other techniques. She often seeks to reveal that which is most easily overlooked. Kate runs the Australia-wide print project The Overwintering Project and is Vice-President of the Print Council of Australia.
