Workshop

February 22 2025, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

OPEN STUDIO | RETRIBUTION TEDDY BEARS – Revamp a Soft Toy

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.

Join us for RETRIBUTION TEDDY BEARS, a casual session of teddy bear modification and/or zombification with the Maestro himself, Arts Project Australia artist, Adrian Lazzaro. Imbue an old teddy with haunting new relevancy; turn it into a mermaid, rearrange its limbs, remove its chest cavity and pop a butterfly on top… Whether you cut, sew, colour, patch, embroider, bedazzle, the possibilities are endless! All materials provided, or BYO teddy bear to modify.

Adrian Lazzaro is an artist working across drawing, printmaking, zines, textiles, and scrapbooks. Lazzaro’s vivid line-work is both dense and delicate; alive with character and movement. His intensely saturated rendering possesses a heightened emotional, almost carnivalesque feel. A magpie-like absorption of surrounding ephemera lends an elegant punk materiality to his work, which often features a cutting pun-infused social commentary. Lazzaro has worked at Arts Project Australia since 2004 and presented his first solo in 2018. In 2022 Lazzaro was a finalist in The Lester Prize, winning the The Lester Barton Family Foundation Award. His work is held in national and international private and corporate collections.

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 courtesy the artist and Arts Project Australia.

OPEN STUDIO | RETRIBUTION TEDDY BEARS – Revamp a Soft Toy

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the place now called Victoria, and all First Peoples living and working on this land. We recognise and celebrate the cultural heritage, creative contributions, and stories of the First Peoples of Victoria. We pay respect to Elders of today, emerging Elders of tomorrow and Elders of the past.

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