Join The Collections Project artist Fran Callen for a children’s workshop using native plant materials.
This sketchy-crafty workshop is full of imagination, creativity, and inventive fun. Make your own family of ‘sketchy-creatures’, inspired by scientific illustrations. Wind pipe-cleaner legs to Banksia-people. Glue gumnut eyes onto seedpod families. Make crazy-bird-monsters with leaves and sticks. Then draw your creations with mixed media and collage. Invent names for your creatures. Where do they live? What do they eat? What do they do for fun? Take your creations home to share.
The Collections Project is a collaboration between Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art that provides artists the opportunity to engage with the Museum’s collections and staff to create new work.
For this exhibition Fran Callen presents mixed-media ‘tabletop’ drawings inspired by the Museum’s collections of botanical, zoological and landscape prints (with a focus on artists Ferdinand Bauer, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Brian Callen), in connection to the Flinders Investigator Garden of native plants.
