Regional Artist Workshops (TOM PRICE)

Photography Hacks | Eleanour Lukale | 

Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary - Photography Hacks with Eleanour Lukale
Tom Price Performing Arts Centre

Learn how to capture extraordinary images using creative hacks, that include props, angles and different techniques. This will help you think outside the box and make your photos stand out from the ordinary. It's all about exploring and experimenting and of course having fun! This workshop will cover the basics of taking a good photo with a more specific focus on creating interesting and abstract images. You will need to bring an image capturing device e.g. your camera or phone and an open mind.

Eleanor Lukale is a Freelance Photographer with an eye for bold and colorful abstraction. Growing up in Tasmania with its amazing backdrop and now living in the Pilbara for over 10 years, her love for nature photography has grown.

Capacity limited to 15 attendees.

Practical Slow Stitch for Beginners | Carrie McDowell | 

Practical Slow Stitch for Beginners with Carrie McDowell
Tom Price Performing Arts Centre

The fashion industry is now the world’s second largest contribution to waste. Australian’s buy more clothing per person than any other country. The average Aussie purchases 27kg of new clothing and textiles every year and discard 23kg of that. All this ends up in landfill in third world countries. Choosing to upcycle is a small contribution to saving the planet. In this workshop participants will value add and upcycle a preloved shirt or other item of clothing giving it new life (please bring to workshop). Participants will experience the meditative qualities of slow stitch using basic embroidery stitches to embellish the item.

Carrie McDowell is an award-winning fibre artist based in Karratha. Carrie has been Cossack Artist in Residence and finalist and recipient for several prestigious art awards. Carrie works with small art cooperative Cheeditha Art Group, who showcase their culture and creativity of the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi people.

Capacity limited to 15 attendees.

Orizome Banner | Jacky Cheng | 

Orizome Banner with Jacky Cheng
Tom Price Community Centre

Together Jacky and participants will explore the dynamics of community engagement through Orizome – the art of folding and dyeing Japanese papers revealing individualistic and unique patterns. The dip-dyed geometrical replicated patterns will reveal individual expressions, with no one piece is identical much like a thumbprint.

Jacky Cheng is a nationally acknowledged artist and educator based in Yawuru Country/ Broome. Jacky has won numerous awards including the 46th Fremantle Print Award, John Stringer, Jury Art and has been a finalists in multiple national awards

Capacity limited to 15 attendees.

Introduction to Graffiti Stencilling | Jodie Thompson

In this workshop, the inspiration is the graffiti art of Banksy, whose exhibition Jodie recently viewed in Melbourne. To add a twist to this, you will be upcycling an item of clothing or an old art canvas/painting that you will need to bring along. One of the following would be suitable a t-shirt, pair of jeans, runners, canvas tote bag, denim jacket and/ or old Kmart decorative canvas (life, love, hope). Let that 'old something' become a 'new something'. Learning how to create a basic stencil, over a graffiti style background to create your own artwork that you can either wear or hang on a wall. Water based spray paint will be used something to protect your clothes is recommended.

REQUIRMENTS: Participants need to bring their own t-shirt, pair of jeans, runners, canvas tote bag, denim jacket and/ or old Kmart decorative canvas

Capacity limited to 15 attendees

Paper Flowers | Richard Brooks | 

Making Native Flowers with Richard Brooks
Tom Price Community Centre

Hiding in the vastness of the Pilbara for the past thirteen years, Richard Brooks (RIB) has made use of the generosity of space and time, the lack of interruptions and the absence of personal relationships to formulate a uniqueness and a viewpoint that might be professionally described as an autistic tick. Unconstrained from the criticisms of his peers; as there are as yet none, RIB has been free to roam to the sometimes-terrifying edges beyond cognitive acceptance and often returns with armfuls of stories to tell and gloriously unique ways of telling them. Whimsically sullen, melodically insightful and delightfully stoic RIB is the commentary the end of times needs to hear

Capacity limited to 15 attendees.

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