Found Colour / Found Sound

Found Colour | Found Sound is a collaborative outdoor workshop led by visual artist Carly Le Cerf and sound artist Jean-Michel Maujean.

Through guided listening, field recording, colour observation and mixing, participants are invited to slow down and experience the landscape in new and fresh ways.

Together, we'll explore the sounds and colours of the surrounding environment, creating a personal and collective portrait of place.

Date: Saturday 5th of December

Place: Lake Monjingup Conservation and Recreation Area

Workshop Schedule

8:00–11:30am | Found Sound with Jean-Michel
An introduction to field recording, guided listening and sound walking, followed by collecting sounds from the surrounding landscape.

11:30am–12:15pm | Lunch break
Participants to bring their own lunch.

12:15–1:30pm | Found Colour with Carly
An introduction to simple colour mixing, followed by observing and collecting colours from the same landscape through individually mixed colour swatches.

$125 per person, all materials included (not lunch).



Carly Le Cerf & Jean-Michel Maujean - Biography

Carly Le Cerf and Jean-Michel Maujean are a painter and a composer and sound artist based in Kwoorabup / Denmark, on Menang Noongar Country in Western Australia. Their collaborative practice brings painting, field recording and composition together to explore how looking and listening shape our relationships with place.

Their work begins with time spent in the field: walking, camping, returning to locations and exchanging observations. Carly develops plein-air paintings and colour studies into layered encaustic and oil works, building and carving back surfaces to convey the physical and felt experience of landscape. Jean-Michel’s recordings and compositions draw on sustained listening to birdsong and environmental sound, informed by his research into the musical possibilities of bird vocalisations.

Together, they create installations in which image and sound offer different ways into the same environment. Through exhibitions, listening walks and workshops, they invite audiences into processes behind their work. Their collaboration explores how close observation, sensory experience and creative exchange can build curiosity, attachment and care for the places we inhabit.