Artists for a Day

High school students are invited to join Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Abbie Matthews for a creative studio-style workshop where you’ll explore drawing and painting using real objects, your imagination, and materials including watercolour, acrylic, pencil, charcoal and pastel. You’ll begin with quick warm-up activities and playful sketching to get you feeling comfortable, confident and ready to create.

Through guided observation and hands-on making, you’ll produce a series of artworks while learning how artists see, think and experiment. Designed especially for high school students, this workshop is relaxed, pressure-free and all about building confidence, creativity and personal expression, no experience or utensils needed, just curiosity and a go-for-it attitude.

All materials will be provided by LCI Melbourne.

ABOUT YOUR MENTOR

Abbie Matthews is practicing artist and educator at The Art Gallery of Ballarat. Working across drawing, painting, mixed media and printmaking, Abbie brings a wealth of knowledge across all 2D mediums and thoroughly enjoys working within a gallery setting. Over her 20 years as a practicing artist, Abbie has been involved in exhibitions and residencies both nationally and internationally. Her experience in teaching is vast, having taught art in Ontario and Bangkok, along with locally at Heide Museum of Modern Art, The Australian Centre for Rare Arts & Forgotten Trades along with high school and primary school settings.