Portfolio Box and Multiples
Avril Makula
A portfolio box is the perfect style of enclosure to house a collection of artworks.
In this workshop we will first make the box. Then we will create artworks, in the form of multiples to swap, to be housed within it. At the end of the week we will each have a collection of works by our fellow artists and a beautiful box in which to encase them.
The workshop is a blend of both technical skill and creative expression. You will learn the practical techniques required to accurately measure, cut, glue, cover, embellish and personalise your portfolio box. Then we will harness our unlimited creativity to make our artworks. The focus will be works on paper where almost anything goes – drawing, stitching, writing, collage, dyeing, simple books, whatever you like to work with to make marks.
‘Multiples’ refers to a series of artworks, often an edition. Our exciting challenge is to produce works which, rather than being identical, are linked thematically with a repeated idea, in the manner of an ‘edition variée’.
This is suitable for all levels, but students should have the confidence to handle cutting tools such as scalpels or snap-off blades.
Class Fee
$720
PLUS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
Residential Shared Residential Single Non-residential
$840 $945 $365
*Please note all meals are included for residential participants.
Only lunch & morning/afternoon tea included for non-residential participants
All prices include access to talks, activities and dinner on Party Night*
I have always been drawn to words, books, colour and the shape of letters.
I learned to set lead type in my first job, had a grounding in printmaking at art school, then the lure of typography and the challenge of combining words and images in a meaningful way led me to a career in book design. This in turn shaped my art practice, in which I print and hand-bind books, take discarded books and other printed matter and restructure it into new forms, and make prints using letter shapes. Much of my work explores the book as art using typography, geometry and colour. I also incorporate themes of connection to place, landscape and the natural world. My books are held in the National Library of Australia and the state libraries of NSW and Victoria, as well as private collections.
