Mixed Media Sculpture Workshop | Create an Animal Human Hybrid with Simone Eisler

Create a mixed media sculpture in this exciting workshop with artist, Simone Eisler. 

Beginning with an artist talk, Simone with guide you through the many unique materials and processes she utilizes with her sculpture and installations. 

Working with a child's doll you will use experimental techniques and materials to transform the doll into a hybrid creature. Learn how to build new form onto an existing shape, explore techniques for decorating the final form from natural materials, and make resin face and body attachments. 

Complimentary tea/coffee, biscuits provided. BYO lunch 

What to bring: Participants must bring a cheap plastic doll (new or second hand) between 20 - 45cm high with arms and legs flexible enough to manipulate and bind together with tape. Please wear suitable artmaking clothes or bring an apron/artshirt.

All other materials will be supplied.

Suitable for ages 16+ / Adults

Artist Bio: Simone Eisler’s imaginary sculptural artworks and installations rework animal, plant and fabricated materials and forms. Her artwork draws from myth, fairy tales, history and ecology. The new forms she creates are re-skinned, cast, fractured, and reconfigured. She employs plaster bandage, poured plaster, bones, fur, and fish scales and works with and over existing natural objects and dolls. These artworks are exhibited in galleries or placed together en masse to create sensory gardens or incursions into the landscape. Simone has exhibited her work in the Philippines, Indonesia, New York, Belgium, Paris, Berlin, India and extensively within Australia. She recently created an 8-metre-high metal Trojan horse covered in over 2,000 plants at Southbank in Brisbane.

Images supplied courtesy of the artist | Photographer: Brian Hand