Sat & Sun 10 & 11 February 2024
10 am - 4pm
$595
Max 8 participants
This workshop will address perceptual drawing from the human subject.
It will focus on the structure and dynamics of the human figure as well as addressing portraiture. An analysis of physiology will underpin work that will equally engage expressive interpretation and adaption to other artistic modes (eg.painting, printmaking).
Day One will engage a female model (semi clothed) in a series of short (3 - 10 mins) and medium (20 - 60 mins) poses. The initial poses will be discussed with linear analysis and the latter in tonal terms. The tutor will reference both traditional and contemporary practices and will make intermittent technical demonstrations, participants are at liberty to adapt personal modes of interpretation in their work.
Participants will gain a heightened awareness of ‘contrapposto’ and the significance of stasis and energy in both the behaviour and description of ourselves.
Day Two will engage two models - male and female (semi clothed) - for studies in portraiture that are inclusive of aspects of the upper body; the neck, collar bones, shoulders. The physiology of the upper body giving dynamic movement and drama to portraiture. These studies will tend to be longer in duration than the previous day. Preliminary studies approx 15 mins and longer studies 60 - 90 mins. The tutor will encourage participants to comprehend and describe the head from multiple viewpoints (including above and below), to this end he will periodically demonstrate structural and proportional issues. Drawing in this session will address ‘chiaroscuro’, the subtle (and the dramatic) relationship between light and dark in our constant visual experience.
Godwin Bradbeer is a Melbourne based artist with a reputation for intense and large scale figurative drawing. His work endeavours a synthesis of diverse cultural attitudes and appearances exclusively within his meditations on the human subject. The drawings are often typified by an exacting attention to anatomy, the artist has stated that he 'seeks the credible portrayal of the miracle of existence' over pictorial descriptions of character, narrative or ideology. His work is often typified by a melancholy and a classical aspect.
He has held over fifty solo exhibitions since the 1970's. In the current year he has exhibited at James Makin Gallery and he will be represented at Sydney Contemporary in September 2023. In 2018 and 2019 he showed in Paris at Galerie La Capitale and he will be exhibiting new work there in 2024.
Bradbeer has taught at The University of Melbourne, the Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University and other art schools in Australia and in Asia. From 2005 until 2010 he was the Head of Drawing in the School of Art at RMIT University.
Bradbeer is included in many publications on Australian art, a monograph 'Godwin Bradbeer' was written by Janet McKenzie and published by Thames and Hudson in 2018.
Bradbeers work is represented in most major collections in Australia, including the A.N.G., the N.G.V, Parliament House Collection, the Art Gallery of N.S.W. in most regional galleries and in many institutional and private international collections.
The artist is represented in Melbourne by the James Makin Gallery, in Adelaide by BMGArt and in Paris at Galerie La Capitale.
Workshop Cancellations & Refunds
We understand that circumstances can change. A full workshop refund will be offered:
· if a workshop in which you are enrolled is cancelled or deferred to a date unsuitable for your attendance. This may be the case if a Covid lockdown is announced.
· upon receipt of an email indicating your intention to withdraw your enrolment when notice is provided to us at least three weeks in advance of the workshop start date.
Workshop Credit - Transfers
We are happy to transfer your enrolment to a future workshop, but this will depend on availability of studio space and three weeks notice being given to us.
