B2B: Collage (VIC)

Gracia Haby (artist)

Gracia Haby will start by taking participants through some of the wonderful things you can do with collage, including small pieces of art and publications. She will then demonstrate the skills you will need to hide the "effort of the hand" in photomontage pieces as well as more obvious collage layering and curious juxtapositions. Gracia will also show participants how they might explore the possibilities of found materials and make abstract collages, as well as techniques that focus on narrative and story-telling.
 http://www.gracialouise.com/

**Participants will need to bring along a sharp pair of scissors (preferably small), a surgical scalpel or blade, glue (preferably archival PVA), collage source material suitable for both collage and photomontage. It is advisable participants spend time collecting pieces specific for collage work appropriate to the theme: the city. Selected materials need not all be flat. They need not all be paper either. Texture can be explored, fabric can be used, and elements that are more sculptural can be sewn into place. Possibilities are limitless.**

Workshops will be held at RMIT TAFE City Campus

23 -27 Cardigan Street
Carlton

Tickets are $75 for Members
& 125 for Non Members

Gracia Haby makes artists' books, collage pieces and limited edition prints. She is besotted with paper for its adaptable, foldable, cut-able, concealable, revealing nature. She works mainly in collaboration with the artist Louise Jennison, and together they have travelled to Switzerland to study (at the Centro del bel Libro, Ascona) the art of the book and its bindings. Both Fine Art graduates of RMIT, they have gone on to exhibit both locally and further afield. In both individual practice and collaborative endeavour, they call upon a wide range of sources, all the while seeking to explore, through inventive narrative, a heady combination of new and existing worlds where wild thoughts take physical form and imagination given free rein. In addition, they make small publications and zines, all of which they have been doing since 1999. Their artwork is in many public collections including Artspace Mackay, Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne University Library, Monash University, National Gallery of Australia, Print Council of Australia, RMIT Library, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of Victoria, State Library of Queensland,UWE Bristol, and private collections.

AGDA Victoria would like to thank Bambra Press, Spicers Paper and RMIT for their invaluable support of Back 2 Basics.

Contact: Brita Frost
Telephone: 1300 043 310
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