Young Creatives: Still Life – Drawing Australian Flora

Participants will learn a range of drawing techniques, including observational drawing, expressive mark-making and tonal modelling. These techniques will be explored through the lens of still life genre, focusing on beautiful Australian native wildflowers and flora.

This workshop is suitable for participants aged 12+.

Feeling creative? Check out books about drawing via the Inner West Libraries catalogue here.

Visit the Young Creatives website for program info.

We may take photographs of the facilitators and the participants at this event. Read here for more details.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:

PARRIS is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator. Her practice echoes her personal perspectives and experience of finding solace in the natural world.

Her interest in bushwalking and its cathartic rhythm of slowing down is reflected in her drawings, ceramics and paper cutouts. Recently Parris exhibited her scribbles and offcuts exhibition at Chrissie Cotter in December 2023. Her exhibition Clay & Bone (2026) features at Hill End Art Gallery.

Parris was the Young Artist Judge for Young Creatives 2024.

ABOUT THE VENUE:

CHRISSIE COTTER GALLERY is located on Pidcock Street (next to Camperdown Commons). The gallery is accessible for people using wheelchairs and other mobility aids, and there is a lift to the exhibition space.

If you have any access or support requirements in order to participate fully, please let us know in the booking order form to ensure that we can arrange any reasonable adjustments.