Make your mark with SAM Art Wall feature artist Kerrie Poliness in this participatory large-scale line drawing session that will flow down the lawn of SAM’s Orchard Hill.

Together, Poliness and participants will map out a line drawing in the artist's signature abstract, geometric style that expands on her new Art Wall installation.

How it will work:

Ahead of the session, Kerrie Poliness will create a large-scale geometric drawing in turf paint on Orchard Hill, outside Elsewhere Café at SAM. On Saturday 5 April, two sessions will run where participants will join Poliness to extend the drawing from the hill to the amphitheatre using chalk. The result will be an incredible, site-responsive collective artwork!

No prior experience or artistic skills are required. All ages are welcome. Children under 12 years old must be accompanied by a guardian.

Event details:

Date + time: Saturday 5 April | Session One: 10am-11am; Session Two: 11am-12pm

Location: SAM Amphitheatre (lake side of SAM building), 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton

Price: Free – registrations encouraged

This event is supported by Dy-Mark

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About the artist:

Kerrie Poliness is a Melbourne-based artist whose systematic, collaborative, and often open-ended process produces paintings, drawings, sculptures and films inflected with histories of conceptual and abstract art. Poliness is associated with an influential group of artists who reiterated the relevance of geometric abstraction in Melbourne in the late 1980s and 90s, through the innovative artist-run space Store 5 which she co-founded.

Poliness exhibited extensively across Australia and internationally, including HOTA, Gold Coast, 2018; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2017; G‑MK, Zagreb, 2014; and Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013.

She has developed a number of site-specific public artworks including Stream, Green Square, Zetland, Sydney, 2022; Parliament Steps Walking Drawing, Melbourne, 2021; Field Drawing #1, Maywar Green, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2014; and Wave Drawings, Highpoint Shopping Centre, Melbourne (2013).