Connecting to Country with Phillip HOWe

Join artist Phillip HOWe for a special free school holiday workshop designed for primary school-aged children.

This fun workshop encourages participants to closely observe and respond to natural materials and patterns found in Country. Using leaves, bark, stones, feathers, sticks and other found objects, kids will explore texture, mark-making, tracing, pattern and form through drawing and painting processes.

This workshop encourages creativity, careful observation, and meaningful engagement with the natural environment.

Recommended for ages 8–12. Younger children are welcome to join with support from a parent or guardian, where appropriate.

About Phillip HOWe

Phillip HOWe is a Naarm (Melbourne)-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, printmaking, painting and installation. His practice unfolds through an intuitive dialogue with Country, where reclaimed materials, bold forms and rhythmic mark-making give rise to works that explore connection, memory and transformation. Drawing on his Celtic and Indigenous heritage, HOWe creates a distinctive visual language shaped by the textures, energies and cycles of the natural world. His work spans intimate works on paper to large-scale public commissions across Victoria.