Workshop

February 21 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

OPEN STUDIO | FAN FACTOR – Fan Art Workshop

Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 2A Clarendon St, South Wharf

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To attend this workshop, purchase your ticket to Melbourne Art Fair here and register here.

You are invited to a listening and drawing party with Arts Project Australia artist and music lover Jamie Dawes, staff artist Carolyn Hawkins, and APA staff alumni Dani Hakim. Render your favourite album cover with coloured pencils to the tune of a curated playlist by Dawes, whose artistic practise is famously known for lovingly depicting every strand of hair upon his favourite musicians’ heads. Your hosts are the curators of Devoted To You, an exhibition about music fandom currently on at the APA Gallery, Collingwood Yards. The session will also feature a conversational curator talk and slideshow while drawing divas together.

James Dawes is an emerging artist whose practice spans drawing, printmaking, painting, and embroidery. His work frequently features his favourite bands and pop stars rendered confidently with fluid, continuous linework. The subjects often take on a windswept look, with every strand of hair standing on end. Dawes’ idiosyncratic depiction of detail results in repetitive patterns within sketchy, colourful and crowded compositions. Dawes has worked at Arts Project Australia since 2011. He has exhibited in group exhibitions in Melbourne and his work is held in private collections in Australia.

Arts Project Australia Open Studio, Booth K1

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If you require any additional information or would like to get in touch please email: caroline.anderson@artsproject.org.au

Open Studio is supported by a City of Melbourne Arts Grant.

Image: James Dawes, The Who (2021).

OPEN STUDIO | FAN FACTOR – Fan Art Workshop

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