Workshop and installation Tell your tale by Emmanuel Asante
Emmanuel Asante, photo: Mosca Media Australia
Get in touch with your wild side through this art-making project led by Emmanuel Asante, an artist from Ghana now living in Western Sydney.
You’re invited to explore your connection to the natural world and the animals that inhabit it by taking part in a series of workshops. Each workshop will have a different focus: painting with watercolours, painting with coffee, and cardboard sculpture. Join us for one or more.
While you work, Emmanuel Asante will share stories on the significance of animals in his culture and invite you to share your own stories.
The paintings and sculptures created in these workshops will become elements of a larger art installation, which will be built on 19 May 2024 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and displayed from 2pm until 4pm.
Drop into a workshop at any time. All materials and instructions provided. All ages and skill levels are welcome, and no experience is necessary. Children under 12 must be supervised by an adult at all times.
This workshop is part of the Art Gallery of New South Wales program Make it May.
The event is supported by We Are Studios, a disability-led inclusive creative studio based in Western Sydney.
A Tell your tale workshop will also be held on Saturday 18 May 2024, between 10am and 2pm, at We Are Studios in Blacktown, where Emmanuel Asante is a core artist.
Workshop and installation Tell your tale by Emmanuel Asante
Sundays 5, 12 May 2024, 10am – 12pm
Sunday 19 May 2024, 10am – 2pm
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Naala Badu, our north building
Free, no bookings required
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Tell your tale workshop with Emmanuel AsantePainting animal portraits with coffee
In this workshop, you’ll paint portraits of animals using coffee. Join us in the Learning Studio on lower level 1 of our north building, Naala Badu, anytime between 10am and 12pm.
Sunday 12 May 2024 10am–12pm
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Tell your tale workshop with Emmanuel AsanteCardboard sculpture and building the installation
In this workshop, you’ll use cardboard to help create an environment for the animal portraits made in the previous Tell your tale workshops and assemble them in a new art installation. Join us in Meers Hall on lower level 2 of our north building, Naala Badu, anytime between 10am and 2pm. The period between 10am and 11am will be part of our sensory-friendly program on 19 May.
Sunday 19 May 2024 10am–2pm