Workshops

Painting and Drawing Group

Every Tuesday

10am to 12noon at the gallery

Convenor: Steve McCall

Enrollment and Enquiries
Phone Bright Art Gallery 5750 1660 or
manager@brightartgallery.org.au

Dear Kate, The Vision of the Mitchell Women by Jane Giblin WORKSHOPS

Dates: Saturday 28 September and Saturday 2 November, both from 1.30-3pm. Cost: $46 pp. Workshops are limited to a maximum of 15 people. Book by emailing the Gallery manager@brightartgallery.org.au

In association with the exhibition Dear Kate being held at the Bright Art Gallery and Cultural Centre the Tasmanian (Flinders Island based) artist behind the show, Jane Giblin, will run workshops to share what she has learned about Kate Ball’s (Mitchell) ink drawings made about the East Coast of Tasmania during the 1860s and 1870s.

There is a connection between Dear Kate and Bright; eleven months before her death at the age of 31, Kate married the Reverend John Aubrey Ball. Before they were wed in Tasmania, Kate visited him in Bright, where he lived, and during her stay she produced several drawings about the place.

In the workshop Jane will provide a short floor talk and share with you the handmade contemporary version, The Mitchell Women: Unknown Stories, of an archived scrapbook originally made by Kate’s younger sister, Sarah.

The original scrapbook, now far too fragile to travel, not only held Kate’s extensive drawing collection but also Sarah’s associated reflections and stories, often handwritten by her devoted niece, Grace Mitchell.

At each venue of the show’s tour, community workshop participants produce work, some of which become a small contribution to the travelling scrapbook. In this way, when it returns to Tasmania in November it will carry a new era of family reflections and stories and a new connection between Bright and East Coast Tasmanian families.

You will be assisted to write and illustrate your own stories in ink and nib, and watercolour. All materials will be provided. $46 per person, including all materials.

Workshops are limited to a maximum of 15 people.

Contribution to the scrapbook is entirely voluntary.

What to bring:

Comfortable clothing, a bottle of water, a couple of treasured family or friendship photographs.