Feathers & Wings, Patterns & Colours: Bird Drawing Workshop For Kids

Name: Feathers & Wings, Patterns & Colours: Bird Drawing Workshop For Kids
Start: 2024-09-29T10:00:00+0930
End: 2024-09-29T11:30:00+0930
Location: Wittunga Botanic Garden

Sun, 29 Sep, 10am - 11:30am ACST

Wittunga Botanic Garden

blackwood, australia

Eleanor Noir

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Event description

This creative drawing workshop will introduce children (4-10 years old) to the local birdlife of Wittunga Botanic Garden, encouraging imaginative engagement with the natural world.

Participants will be guided through basic drawing techniques and provided with creative prompts to make their own imaginative bird drawing inspired by observing the beautiful patterns and colours of the local feathered birdlife.

Limited capacity: maximum 10 students. Parents are required to attend to supervise and assist students.

All materials are provided.

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Eleanor Noir

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Eleanor Noir (b. 1991) is a visual artist living and working on Kaurna Land/Adelaide. Her multidisciplinary art practice investigates themes of connection with the natural world, impermanence and the boundaries between being wild and domesticated.

In 2012 she received her BVA from Adelaide Central School of Art, following which she undertook further studies in perceptual painting and drawing in France and the USA. In 2015, she was awarded an Australia Council Art Start grant to study life drawing and structural anatomy at the Art Students League of New York, USA and to undertake self-directed studies in the museums of NYC.

She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the Pro Hart Scholarship, Australia Council Art Start Grant, the Waterway Fellowship, the Tanza Lorraine Smith Fellowship and the Carbins Trust Prize. Her work has been selected as a finalist for national and international art prizes, including most recently the John Leslie Art Prize, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the Calleen Art Award.

Her work has been exhibited in Australia, Spain and the USA - including at the South Australian Museum (Australia), the European Museum of Modern Art MEAM (Spain), and Sotheby’s New York (USA). Her work is held in private collections in Australia and the USA.

Currently, Eleanor is Artist-in-Residence for Nature Festival and Wittunga Botanic Gardens.

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Sun, 29 Sep, 10am - 11:30am ACST

Wittunga Botanic Garden

blackwood, australia

Hosted by Eleanor Noir