How does a body of water move? How might we describe an experience of viewing water with watercolour’s fluid logic? Join artist Holly Anderson for a playful painting workshop and explore the materiality of watercolours in producing images of water. Around a makeshift fountain, you will be guided through speculative activities that explore this formal tension. Expect experimentation with wax resists and geometric systems to explore the form of water and produce a series of works on paper. All materials provided — just bring a ‘go with the flow’ attitude. All experience levels welcome. Places are strictly limited, bookings essential. This workshop is programmed alongside Maluw Adhil Urngu Padanu Mamuy Moesik.
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Holly Anderson uses painting to examine sensory experiences with bright sunlight. This work is an approach to landscape painting, one seen through the body as a shaky or porous perceptual tool. She uses systems of grids, large expanses of negative space and a quartet of blue, yellow and white to develop a logic for the perceptual puzzles, illusions and strangeness of the lit up world. She has exhibited across Australia with recent exhibitions at Museum of Brisbane (2022), Firstdraft (2021) and Outerspace (2018, 2020, 2022) among others. She has been a finalist in the JADA Prize (2022), Brisbane Portrait Prize (2022), The Redland Art Award (2022), NEAP (2021), and the Clayton Utz (2019), among others. Her work is held in the Museum of Brisbane collection.
