Slow Looking Workshop: soft landing

Feeling overwhelmed and in need of a breather? Is doom-scrolling taking its toll? Remedy your attention fatigue and learn to see differently at our slow looking workshop, facilitated by artist Kylie Banyard and accessibility consultant Sarah Empey. 

Expanding upon the art historical technique of closely examining the visual fundamentals of an artwork, this workshop will involve a series of guided slow looking activities which respond to works in Banyard’s upcoming exhibition soft landing. Acting as an exercise in mindfulness rather than a tool for analysis, slow looking is a means of learning about the world in a way that is free from judgement, and which brings us into the present moment.

In a society that is increasingly fast-moving, this workshop is an opportunity to stop and smell the roses or, in this case, observe the brushstrokes.

As part of soft landing by Kylie Banyard.
2 September - 4 October

Image: Hal with a face full of correa (detail), 2024, acrylic and oil on hawthorn dyed canvas, 53 x 71cm.