Tutored Life Drawing with Scott Breton

As a part of the RQAS Workshop Festival, artist Scott Breton will be running a tutored life drawing session.
In this 2 hour, classically oriented class Scott will provide you the two core approaches he uses to rapidly improve your ability to see in spatial, anatomical and gestural essentials. This will give a good overview of what he teaches in longer figure drawing courses and provide you with actionable drills you can take away and practise by yourself.

The core approaches are:
1. a specific strategy for seeing the figure overall in accurate proportions and simple terms.
2. building the forms of torso (the central nexus of the figure and origin of gesture) by drilling down into key anatomical points.
Scott will introduce the activities by demonstrating them and then go around the class and demonstrate individually where helpful.

When: Wednesday, 25th of March, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Ticket price: $65 

Location: Upstairs studio gallery, RQAS Petrie Terrace Gallery (unit 3/162 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane)

For full materials list visit: https://scottbreton.art/materials-list

Attendees much be 18 years or older for this course and this workshop is suitable for attendees of any experience level. Make sure to purchase tickets soon as spaces are limited!

**Please note** workshop will be held held in the upstairs studio gallery which is only accessible by a flight of stairs.

About your Tutor - Scott Breton:

I am a figurative fine artist from Brisbane, Australia. After completing a science degree in 2005 (BSc (Genetics) University of Queensland) and contemplating a career in research science, I committed fully to pursuing art. I continued a classically leaning arts education and practise begun much earlier, while continuing to work in construction to pay the bills, and ended up completing a carpentry apprenticeship.

In 2009 I was involved with starting an Atelier style art school in Brisbane, Australia, and began teaching traditional drawing, painting and sculpting skills.

In 2012 I won the highly contested A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship, Australia’s largest national prize for developing the careers of traditional representational artists. This allowed me to visit many of the major art museums in Europe and the US, and to study with important contemporary figurative artists.This further convinced me of the relevance of Renaissance thinking and aesthetics to navigating the 21st century.

After winning the Lethbridge 10,000 Small Works prize in 2016, I began regular solo shows with Lethbridge Gallery in Brisbane, Australia. Also in 2016, I was cofounder for The International Arts and Culture Group (TIAC Group), an education startup based in Florence, Italy with links to China and Spain, that has served as a hub for a variety of workshops and exhibitions involving some of the world's best figurative artists. In 2021 I was made a Fellow of the Royal Queensland Art Society.

Post-pandemic I am focussed on my artwork, research and writing about aesthetic philosophy and art practise, and teaching regular workshops about drawing, anatomy and composition.