Artist Retreats & Workshops
with mixed media artist Sue Piggott
Interested in taking time out to explore a new environment and immerse yourself in your own curated art residency?
OR maybe a couple of days away with friends to do your own art or learn something new?
I am offering ARTIST RESIDENCIES lasting one to two weeks in regional South Australia. These will be offered only twice a year in Autumn and Spring.
There will a selection process which starts with an
>> Expression of Interest .PDF .DOC
Marking Our Time - A book is available that documents a 2 week art residency that I shared with Tara Axford here in SA - click here to find out more and purchase the book
Art Retreats are also available any time of the year at Victor Harbor. Do your own thing or I'm happy to run a workshop for you.
Please phone or message me on 0439 723 998 to discuss options. Or email Sue - sue@illoura.com.au
LOCATIONS:
A beach house at Victor Harbor, 60 minutes from Adelaide.
Hosted or Self-contained - 3 QS bedrooms.
Large living area & outside undercover space for your art practice.
A sheep and cropping farm 90 minutes from Adelaide
Hosted accommodation for 1 or a couple in the cottage at the farm.
OR bring your own caravan and park near the cottage.
Includes use of a large farm shed art studio.
ACTIVITIES DURING YOUR RETREAT COULD INCLUDE:
- visit to Adelaide & Fleurieu Peninsula Galleries
- visit Pangarinda Botanic Garden at Wellington
- tour of the working farm and explore the junk yard
- several walking trails are near the beach house at Victor Harbor - both bush and beach
- self-directed creativity on your own
- collaborative creativity - share ideas, processes, skills
- tutored workshops with Sue
TRANSPORT:
- bring your own car or hire one
- or I can provide transport from airport and back again
FOOD OPTIONS:
- byo
- share expenses as we shop
- fully catered
- enjoy local cafes/restaurants
ABOUT SUE
Mixed Media Artist living on Ngarrindjeri land and Kaurna land.
From an early age I have loved making things and feel renewed and inspired by spending time outdoors in nature.
My current mixed media art practice is a response to the natural world around me and in particular the sheep and cropping farm that has been my home for over 40 years. The changing seasons, the textures and colours of the land, the eucalypts and grasses that border the cropping and sheep grazing paddocks.
The farm also provides a bounty of materials that can be used for my textile and paper artworks. I love to walk and forage for leaves, gumnuts, weathered wood and rusty iron. They produce the colours and patterns on my botanically dyed textiles and papers and inspire the mixed media collage pieces I create.
"I am ever mindful of the fragility of the environment I live in and recycle and re-use materials whenever I have the opportunity."
The creative processes I am currently using and offering workshops in are:
- botanical printing on paper and fabric
- mark making on paper and fabric
- cyanotype
- gelli printing
- book making, junk journalling
- mixed media collage
- slow stitching
- paper making
