Where are the memorable places in your life? Our relationships to spaces are influenced by many factors and therefore affect us in different ways. The...
Picturing Places of Meaning: A Creative Art and Writing Workshop
Forbes St
2010 NSW
Australia
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Access and Inclusion
Event Details
Where are the memorable places in your life? Our relationships to spaces are influenced by many factors and therefore affect us in different ways. The age and history of a place, whether it is local and familiar or far away, exotic and mysterious, all play a part in shaping our perceptions.
This creative workshop explores the idea of place and the meanings we attribute to special places. In a 1½ hour session, visual artist and educator Ella Dreyfus leads you through a creative process that combines photographs with simple guided visualisations and writing exercises to explore ways that certain sites retain fragments of memory and traces of emotion.
In preparation for the workshop, it is suggested you collect existing photographs (your own or found imagery) and spend time thinking about the places of meaning in your life. They could be homes you’ve lived in, workplaces, play spaces or cities and countries in which you have travelled. They might be grand spaces or seemingly insignificant places such as a favourite corner of a room, a view from a window, a notable building or street. They can be any environment at all; inside, outside, in nature.
Bring up to three photographs to the workshop as your raw material to be scanned, enlarged and printed as the base for your creative work. By layering words with pictures, your personal stories become original artworks.
In selecting photographs of special places consider the following points:
· Choose places where something occurred that triggers strong memories and emotions.
· If you don’t have your own photograph of the exact place, find a photograph of it in a book, photo album or on the internet.
· Select photographs without people, as it is the place that is important. Your memory and imagination will provide the content to create the artwork.
· The photographs need to be sourced prior to the workshop and brought along in any format or on any device (a photographic print, a memory stick, or on a mobile phone or tablet).
· Note that your photographs may be seen and shared with others in the workshop, so only bring photographs that you are comfortable with other people viewing.
· Photographs will also be provided at the workshop for those who cannot bring them.
Workshop conditions
1. The workshop runs for 1½ hours from 2:00-3:30pm.
2. The workshop is suitable for people over the age of 18 and no experience is necessary.
3. The workshop is limited to a maximum of 16 participants.
4. Bookings are essential and can be made at The Ticketing Group.
5. Participants can bring up to 3 photographs to the workshop.
6. All photographs will be scanned, sent or uploaded to a computer and printed.
7. The print will form the basis of the creative picture. All other materials are provided.
8. The finished pictures will be scanned and saved for documentation purposes and a copy will be emailed to each participant.
9. The finished pictures will be the property of the participant and can be taken away at the end of the workshop.
10. The facilitator reserves the right to dismiss any participant who is disruptive to the workshop and other participants.
Note: Research scientist Professor Katherine Boydell of the Black Dog Institute will assist in the session as she is currently exploring the use of art genres in the research process.