Professional Learning: Connection Through Portraiture with Thomas Readett

Calling Teachers and Artists!  

Join Ngarrindjeri/Kaurna artist Thomas Readett for an evening of Professional Learning exploring Portraiture.  This hands-on workshop invites teachers and artists to explore portraiture, through mixed media drawing, as a powerful tool for connection, self-expression, and wellbeing.   

Participants will journey from drawing themselves to drawing each other, discovering how self-observation and life drawing can deepen creative engagement and connection to self and others in the classroom.  Through a guided practice, teachers will experience creative processes that nurture calm and focus and learn how to translate these experiences for their students.  Grounded in wellbeing and creative inquiry, this approach can be applied across all areas of the curriculum to inspire confidence, curiosity, and connection in learners of all ages.  

Artist Bio

Thomas Readett is an established artist working as TR Visual Arts, best known for exploring large-scale painting, realism, and monochrome portraiture. Readett has been lecturing at Adelaide Central School of Art for 5 years and has run Professional Learning workshops across Art Gallery and South Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Association for the Visual Arts, Carclew and more. This year Readett illustrated his debut children’s book “Finding My Culture” and was a semi-finalist on season 2 of ABC’s Portrait Artist of the Year.  

Come along to learn new ways for you and your students to engage with Portraiture Drawing!

Important Booking Information  

The event is set for 4:30pm for a 5pm workshop start. Participants are invited to arrive early to help themselves to a cup of tea, coffee or light refreshments and mingle until workshop commencement. We ask that all participants arrive by 4:45pm at the latest to ensure sufficient time to sign in. The event will conclude at 7:30pm.

The Carclew in Schools program is supported by the South Australian Government through the Department for Education. This event is generously subsidised for Department for Education teachers.  

This event has limited capacity, so please only book a spot if you’re committed to attending. If your plans change, let us know so we can offer your place to someone on the waitlist.

These programs are generously subsidised for public primary and secondary schools by the Department for Education. ⁠

Banner Image: Professional Learning workshop with Thomas Readett at Carclew, 2024; photo by Charlotte Smith.