December 15, 2019 - January 19, 2020: Issue 433

 

Sydney art space (Mona Vale) Summer school 2020: Expression sessions

Artist: Cathy Cull. Title of Work: Rock Lily Sprite - part of the annual End of Year Exhibition of Sydney Art Space (at Mona Vale) works - shown at Avalon Recreation Centre, November 2019. AJG Picture 
A great program of Art Classes are on offer in Mona Vale from the first week of January 2020, enabling all who have been putting off extending their creative bones an opportunity to get a jump start on beginning to learn 'how to' or honing their skills during that relaxed time of year. If the quality of the Sydney Art Space End of Year Exhibition each year is anything to go by, even the novice can explore how to do great things in a variety of Art mediums through the Sydney Art Space. 


Sydney Art Space – an art school on the Northern Beaches of Sydney offers art classes for adults, teens and children and is the inspiration of multi-form artist and educator Christine Simpson. The vision of creating an arts education environment has now come to fruition and the art school provides quality art courses, quality art tutors and diverse and interesting art events and creative workshops.

Being principal educator at The Shed Sculpture Studio for the past 12 years, with a Diploma in Education, and the completion of a Master of Fine Art and Master of Studio Art at Sydney University’s Sydney College of the Arts, Christine Simpson’s acquired arts practice-education knowledge has led to the reality of opening and delivering this quality arts teaching facility.

Sydney Art Space is easily accessible with an off street drop-off zone directly out the front and free 3 hour undercover parking directly opposite in Pittwater Place. It is also conveniently positioned 2 minutes walk from public transport and Mona Vale Village and less than 10 minutes walk from local schools.

Sydney Art Space gives people of all ages and stages the ability to develop and enhance their creativity and confidence by learning real skills to begin and/or grow their arts practice in a fun, safe, nurturing and non-competitive learning environment. Small art class sizes enable individual attention and the opportunity to belong to a caring creative community. 

We offer adult art coursework on weekdays, evenings and Saturday afternoons, children’s art classes after school, and private HSC tuition Saturday mornings. There is opportunity for everyone, no matter what their weekly schedule may be, to begin and develop their creative journey at Sydney Art Space.

We hold an annual student exhibition showcasing work from all our art courses and workshops, in a dedicated exhibition space every year in beautiful Avalon Beach. All the creative efforts of our students are celebrated and the goodwill of belonging to a vibrant and creative community is shared and enjoyed by all.

Creating an Arts hub that gives people of all ages and stages, the ability to develop and enhance their creativity and confidence by learning real skills to begin and/or grow their arts practice in a fun, safe, nurturing and non-competitive learning environment is what Sydney Art Space is all about!

Whether it be sculpture, drawing, painting, weaving, printmaking, carving, creative writing, children’s art and our School Holiday Art Programs there is something for everyone to get inspired and be creative.

Below run details about this Summers classes. Bookings and more information is available on the Sydney Art Space Website. 
Please visit: www.sydneyartspace.com

SUMMER ART PROGRAM

Our Summer School Holiday Art Program will run from the 4th -19th January 2020. There are fun and creative art lessons for the children with painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, animation and hand building in clay. Workshop prices include all art materials and tuition.

You can also create your own art workshop if you have 4 to 8 friends or family members who want to create together :) Contact us to find out more about available dates and themes. info@sydneyartspace.com 0402 532 957

Most workshops are 2.5 hours duration, running mornings 10am-12:30pm and afternoons 1pm-3:30pm. Lunchtime supervision is offered at no extra charge for children staying full days.

MORE ABOUT OUR SCHOOL HOLIDAY ART PROGRAM

Sydney Art Space offers a fabulous school holiday program with art workshops for adults, teens and kids throughout the year covering painting in various media, drawing, collage, printing, stitching, weaving, clay hand-building and sculpture!

Check our website 6 weeks before each NSW state school holiday period to find out what’s on offer in our holiday art programs and for enrolment details. Classes are small with a maximum of 8 students therefore bookings are essential. NOTE: There are also art workshops for adults during all school holiday breaks.

Create with a group of friends and/or family at a Sydney Art Space workshop and save! Receive a 10% group discount when booking 5 or more participants in the same workshop on the same day for any adult, teen or kids workshop. For more information contact us info@sydneyartspace.com or 0402 532 957.

SCULPTURE LIFECLASS INTENSIVE

4 & 5, 11 & 12 January 2020
TUTOR: CHRISTINE SIMPSON
4 DAY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
SATURDAY 4TH JANUARY 2020
10:00AM - 2:00PM
OPEN AGE
BEGINNERS TO ADVANCED

An intensive 4 session course over January with the life model building a raku clay sculpture to be fired or possibly cast at the end of the coursework. I have had a special request to hold a January intensive for those who are working and can’t make the Friday Lifeclass.

This Lifeclass Intensive is on the weekends of the 4th and 5th, 11th and 12th of January 2020, from 10am-2pm each day.

Includes model and all tools.

Additional cost: Raku clay $30 per bag if required.

SESSION 1 – 4/01/20

Drawing the pose as an armature investigation and then making a raku armature to begin our form development, seeing rhythm and proportional values.

SESSION 2 – 5/01/20

Massing forms over the raku armature, roughing out the form relationships and proportional values through the act of seeing and developing spatial awareness.

SESSION 3 – 11/01/20

Further form and planar development and modelling the forms as a unified whole.

SESSION 4 – 12/01/20

Refining our modelling, adding facial features and hair. Completion of modelling, discussions regarding firing or casting the finished modelling.

BOOK IN HERE 4 Day Intensive - $330.00

FLIGHTY BIRDS: DRAWING AND ANIMATION

TUTOR: TESSA MAGLIANO
1 MORNING WORKSHOP
TUESDAY 7TH JANUARY 2020
10:00AM - 12:30PM
11 – 15 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

Join animation artist Tessa Maglioni to draw your favourite bird and then “teach” it to fly using a series of drawings to create an animation flip book! If time the images will be coloured.

FULL DAY OF FUN

Give your child a full day of creative fun by booking them into this workshop and Powerful Owl: Drawing, Sculpting, Casting. Includes free supervision over lunch. Please bring lunch, a drink and healthy snacks.

CREATIVE KIDS REBATE

You can use a $100 Creative Kids Rebate Voucher if you book the same child into both workshops on this day.

PLEASE NOTE: You must purchase the ‘Dual Enrolment’ and enter coupon code ‘CK‘ during checkout to receive the $100 discount, as well as separately entering your child’s voucher number. Only 1 ‘Dual Enrolment’ is allowed per order. Please place multiple orders if enrolling more than one child.

Single Enrolment: $55.00
Dual Enrolment: Morning AND Afternoon Workshops: $110.00

BOOK IN HERE

POWERFUL OWL: DRAWING, SCULPTING, CASTING

TUTOR: CHRISTINE SIMPSON
1 AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
TUESDAY 7TH JANUARY 2020
1:00PM - 3:30PM
11 – 15 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

In this workshop we will be looking closely to draw the wonderful Powerful owl to see its proportions and personality. These drawings will then be translated into a bas relief modelling and carving into plasticine. This relief will then be cast in plaster to take home and enjoy.

FULL DAY OF FUN

Give your child a full day of creative fun by booking them into this workshop and Flighty Birds: Drawing and Animation. Includes free supervision over lunch. Please bring lunch, a drink and healthy snacks.

CREATIVE KIDS REBATE

You can use a $100 Creative Kids Rebate Voucher if you book the same child into both workshops on this day.

PLEASE NOTE: You must purchase the ‘Dual Enrolment’ and enter coupon code ‘CK‘ during checkout to receive the $100 discount, as well as separately entering your child’s voucher numberOnly 1 ‘Dual Enrolment’ is allowed per order. Please place multiple orders if enrolling more than one child.

Single Enrolment: $55.00
Dual Enrolment: Morning AND Afternoon Workshops: $110.00

BOOK IN HERE

MY CITY SYDNEY! WAX RESIST DRAWING AND PAINTING AFTER KEN DONE

TUTOR: ELEANOR AMIRADAKI
1 MORNING WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY 8TH JANUARY 2020
10:00AM - 12:30PM
6 – 10 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

Sydney is the best city on the planet (but don’t tell anyone you know who lives in Melbourne!) And to celebrate living here we are going to do some drawings of our famous buildings and structures. These will then be coloured in using wax crayons. A layer of acrylic paint will then be applied before we pull back the paint to reveal the beautiful coloured city underneath.

FULL DAY OF FUN

Give your child a full day of creative fun by booking them into this workshop and My Home: Drawing and Clay Hand Building. Includes free supervision over lunch. Please bring lunch, a drink and healthy snacks.

CREATIVE KIDS REBATE

You can use a $100 Creative Kids Rebate Voucher if you book the same child into both workshops on this day.

PLEASE NOTE: You must purchase the ‘Dual Enrolment’ and enter coupon code ‘CK‘ during checkout to receive the $100 discount, as well as separately entering your child’s voucher numberOnly 1 ‘Dual Enrolment’ is allowed per order. Please place multiple orders if enrolling more than one child.

Single Enrolment: $55.00
Dual Enrolment: Morning AND Afternoon Workshops: $110.00

BOOK IN HERE

MY HOME: DRAWING AND CLAY HAND BUILDING

TUTOR: CHRISTINE SIMPSON
1 AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY 8TH JANUARY 2020
1:00PM - 3:30PM
6 – 10 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

We will begin by making some drawings of your home, or perhaps a fantasy home that you would like to draw from your imagination and maybe live in one day. From these drawings we will then turn your artwork into a 3D air drying paper clay hand-built sculpture using slab and coiling techniques. These can be painted at home after they dry :)

FULL DAY OF FUN

Give your child a full day of creative fun by booking them into this workshop and My City Sydney! Wax Resist Drawing and Painting after Ken Done. Includes free supervision over lunch. Please bring lunch, a drink and healthy snacks.

CREATIVE KIDS REBATE

You can use a $100 Creative Kids Rebate Voucher if you book the same child into both workshops on this day.

PLEASE NOTE: You must purchase the ‘Dual Enrolment’ and enter coupon code ‘CK‘ during checkout to receive the $100 discount, as well as separately entering your child’s voucher number. Only 1 ‘Dual Enrolment’ is allowed per order. Please place multiple orders if enrolling more than one child.

Single Enrolment: $55.00
Dual Enrolment: Morning AND Afternoon Workshops: $110.00

BOOK IN HERE

ABSTRACT REPETITION: DRAWING, PAINTING AND COLLAGE AFTER SUSAN O’DOHERTY

TUTOR: CHRISTINE SIMPSON
1 MORNING WORKSHOP
THURSDAY 9TH JANUARY 2020
10:00AM - 12:30PM
11 – 15 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

Australian artist Susan O’Doherty is our inspiration for this art workshop. We will play with the repetition of rectangles, circles and triangles to create a layered pattern using opaque and translucent materials to create an individual artwork on canvas to hang and enjoy at home.

BOOK IN HERE - $55.00

TALKING HEADS: DRAWING AND ANIMATION

TUTOR: TESSA MAGLIANO
1 MORNING WORKSHOP
TUESDAY 14TH JANUARY 2020
10:00AM - 12:30PM
11 – 15 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

You will bring in an image of someone who interests you, whether that be a family member, friend or celebrity or you might like to choose yourself! You will then learn how to draw this head as a still image before learning to how to animate this image to make your head do some talking :)

FULL DAY OF FUN

Give your child a full day of creative fun by booking them into this workshop and Tattooed Skulls: Bas Relief Carving and Casting. Includes free supervision over lunch. Please bring lunch, a drink and healthy snacks.

CREATIVE KIDS REBATE

You can use a $100 Creative Kids Rebate Voucher if you book the same child into both workshops on this day.

PLEASE NOTE: You must purchase the ‘Dual Enrolment’ and enter coupon code ‘CK‘ during checkout to receive the $100 discount, as well as separately entering your child’s voucher numberOnly 1 ‘Dual Enrolment’ is allowed per order. Please place multiple orders if enrolling more than one child.

Single Enrolment: $55.00
Dual Enrolment: Morning AND Afternoon Workshops: $110.00

BOOK IN HERE

TATTOOED SKULLS: BAS RELIEF CARVING AND CASTING

TUTOR: CHRISTINE SIMPSON
1 AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
TUESDAY 14TH JANUARY 2020
1:00PM - 3:30PM
11 – 15 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

Skulls are great to draw and the Mexicans love to make designs that resemble tattoos on their skulls :) In this workshop we will transform our drawing of the skull onto plasticine. We will then carve our tattoo design into the skull shape on the plasticine before casting in plaster. The finished artwork can be hung on your wall at home!

FULL DAY OF FUN

Give your child a full day of creative fun by booking them into this workshop and Talking Heads: Drawing and Animation. Includes free supervision over lunch. Please bring lunch, a drink and healthy snacks.

CREATIVE KIDS REBATE

You can use a $100 Creative Kids Rebate Voucher if you book the same child into both workshops on this day.

PLEASE NOTE: You must purchase the ‘Dual Enrolment’ and enter coupon code ‘CK‘ during checkout to receive the $100 discount, as well as separately entering your child’s voucher number. Only 1 ‘Dual Enrolment’ is allowed per order. Please place multiple orders if enrolling more than one child.

Single Enrolment: $55.00
Dual Enrolment: Morning AND Afternoon Workshops: $110.00

BOOK IN HERE

MY FAVOURITE TOY: DRAWING, COLLAGE AND PAINTING AFTER LUCY CULLITON

TUTOR: ELEANOR AMIRADAKI
1 MORNING WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY 15TH JANUARY 2020
10:00AM - 12:30PM
6 – 10 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

Bring along your favourite toy for this wonderful art workshop. We will at first draw our toy concentrating on the outline. This drawing will then be cut out and traced a few times until we have made a repeating pattern on our canvas. The pattern will then be painted and collaged ready to take home and show your family and friends.

FULL DAY OF FUN

Give your child a full day of creative fun by booking them into this workshop and Toy Story: Drawing, Modelling and Casting. Includes free supervision over lunch. Please bring lunch, a drink and healthy snacks.

CREATIVE KIDS REBATE

You can use a $100 Creative Kids Rebate Voucher if you book the same child into both workshops on this day.

PLEASE NOTE: You must purchase the ‘Dual Enrolment’ and enter coupon code ‘CK‘ during checkout to receive the $100 discount, as well as separately entering your child’s voucher number. Only 1 ‘Dual Enrolment’ is allowed per order. Please place multiple orders if enrolling more than one child.

Single Enrolment: $55.00
Dual Enrolment: Morning AND Afternoon Workshops: $110.00

BOOK IN HERE

TOY STORY: DRAWING, MODELLING AND CASTING

TUTOR: CHRISTINE SIMPSON
1 AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY 15TH JANUARY 2020
1:00PM - 3:30PM
6 – 10 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

In this workshop we will choose our favourite 2 toys to bring along and draw. We will start by making up a short story about our 2 toys and an adventure that they go on together. We will draw this story on a plasticine relief and then cut the background away to create a relief sculpture. This will then be cast in plaster as a wall hanging to take home and enjoy.

FULL DAY OF FUN

Give your child a full day of creative fun by booking them into this workshop and Toy Story: Drawing, Modelling and Casting. Includes free supervision over lunch. Please bring lunch, a drink and healthy snacks.

CREATIVE KIDS REBATE

You can use a $100 Creative Kids Rebate Voucher if you book the same child into both workshops on this day.

PLEASE NOTE: You must purchase the ‘Dual Enrolment’ and enter coupon code ‘CK‘ during checkout to receive the $100 discount, as well as separately entering your child’s voucher number. Only 1 ‘Dual Enrolment’ is allowed per order. Please place multiple orders if enrolling more than one child.

Single Enrolment: $55.00
Dual Enrolment: Morning AND Afternoon Workshops: $110.00

BOOK IN HERE

PAPER BAG MASKS: DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND COLLAGE

TUTOR: CHRISTINE SIMPSON
1 MORNING WORKSHOP
THURSDAY 16TH JANUARY 2020
10:00AM - 12:30PM
6 – 10 YEARS
ALL LEVELS

We will begin this workshop using our imagination to come up with a fantasy face mask that we will draw in pencil on paper and colour. This idea will then be transferred to a paper bag, big enough to go over your head :) We will then cut, colour and collage the paper bag to create your special mask. Who knows, you might like to wear this at home and surprise your family!

BOOK IN HERE -$55.00

RANDOM WEAVING WORKSHOP

TUTOR: CHERRY CORR
1 DAY WORKSHOP
SUNDAY 19TH JANUARY 2020
10:00AM - 4:00PM
16 – ADULT
ALL LEVELS

Learn the art of Random Weaving with natural materials.

Using materials that are gifts from nature, learn to make fibre sculptures with the absorbing organic process of random weaving. Learn about collecting, preparing and storing natural weaving materials like palm inflorescence and leaves. Discover new uses for materials from your garden. Then immerse yourself in a free-form weaving technique in a relaxed communal environment.

Warning: Weaving has been known to be addictive!

Weaving Materials & Afternoon Tea are provided.

Materials fee $10
Please pay this to the tutor on the day.

EQUIPMENT LIST

  • Notepad and pen
  • Heavy duty, sharp scissors or garden secateurs
  • Hand held spray bottle
  • 2 old towels
  • A reusable bag to take home your work
  • Lunch – however, there are nearby cafes to buy lunch.

BOOK IN HERE - $150.00