SHEBANG! sessions: Life Drawing

hosted on Wurundjeri/ Merri Merri land

A curated class-meets-happening, join us for a lesson in Life Drawing SHEBANG! style. All levels of drawing experience welcome. Fierce (role)models serving you classic and experimental poses hosted by experienced sassy artists/ teachers. Materials provided.

Our learn-by-doing approach to mark making covers a different topic each session. 2 hours of live model poses structured to build up skill and confidence. Paper, boards, pencils and charcoal provided. Refreshments available from our speakeasy bar ** in collaboration with our favourite neighbours Minimum Wines.

Fortnightly Fridays from September 5th- 31st October inclusive:

3rd October

17th October

31st October

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6:30pm doors open

7pm-9pm doors locked - latecomers to wait in atrium for entry during the first break

9:30pm venue closes

various professional models & different mark-making lesson each session- see ticket link for more information. SHEBANG! studio is a current Life Models' Society Convenor Member.

$55 seat with board (may BYO easel)

or

$60 easel with board

or

$120 easel x 3 week term

class size intentionally intimate, please sign up quickly to avoid disappointment

strictly no cameras

SESSION 3: dark/ mid-tone/ light

MODEL 3: Amie Turnbull www.instagram.com/amieturnbull

Amie Turnbull is an effervescent Artist personality and rascal being based in Naarm who works as a costumier, set designer, stylist and vintage crackerjack across the film, performance and music industries.

A fourth generation Artist and dressmaker Amie has spent her life steeped in creativity guided by her family, their traditions and shaped by their contribution to the (australian) artistic cultural landscape. She has led the life of a traveller living and working all over the world and learning skills from mentors far and wide.

A practicing life model since her late teens Amie has worked with esteemed artists both within the classical tradition of working from life and contemporary artists in their understanding and explorations of body, being and form. Amie worked modelling for all of the tertiary Arts institutions and many artist collectives in Eora (Sydney) throughout the late 90’s and 00’s. Modelling has given her an acute understanding of strength, endurance and the dichotomy of the subjective gaze, which has deeply informed her own creative practice in realising characters and alters for her many clients.

Years of working within the antique and vintage clothing industry as a buyer, dealer and valuer has given her a unique perspective of beauty, artistry and the ever changing relationship humans have with aesthetics and style du jour.

Sitting at the core of her work are inclusivity, diversity, respect and collaboration through creative connection and community. Amie’s work focuses on the dramatic, unusual, mythical and spiritual.

Working with her extensive skill base across a multitude of mediums she is a creative shape shifting force.

Amie is a unique and much sought after artist maker that has been blessed to collaborate creatively with many globally celebrated performers and artists. She continues to bring form to ideas visually, materially and verbally as part of her love language in celebrating wholly the essence of aliveness.

HOSTS 3 : Miss Marina Perkovich & Erin Veronica Ender

Miss Marina Perkovich (she/her) www.marinaperkovich.weebly.com

Miss Marina is an accomplished visual artist engaging many mediums including drawing, printing, fabric manipulation and ceramics. She was also a prolific music photographer during the 80s and 90s, documenting musicians and bands including Nick Cave, Venom P. Stinger, The Seminal Rats, Corpse Grinders, Gas Babies and The Sacred Cowboys. Many of Marina's photos can be viewed in the Facebook group: "I got drunk at The Crystal Ballroom". Marina's body of photographic work is currently with the Victorian State Library being digitised for their collection and will be available on their website in due course.

Erin Veronica Ender (she/her) www.heandeve.com

Designed and built in 2015 by Henrik Ender and Erin Veronica Ender (he&eve) BIGBANG x SHEBANG! studio was architecturally engineered for social and cultural change. Erin grew a love for the power of inspiring students while tutoring and designing content for students in Architecture, Interior and Spatial Design for RMIT, Swinburne and Monash Uni for 2 decades and counting. Erin's artistic practice is centered around the production of ephemeral environments (eg. happenings/ exhibitions) showcasing the audience's everyday theatre (eg. behaviours/ costume) contributing to our collective cultural identity here in so-called Australia.

IMAGE CREDIT: Guy Ritani @taniwha.ritani SHEBANG! showcase 2022 photographed by Kennie.

**in collaboration with www.minimumwines.com

Hosts acknowledge that these happenings are performed on the unseeded lands of the Wurundjeri-willam and Merri Merri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation. We pay deep respects to Elders past and present- this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.