Workshop – Material Experimentation with Asha Southcombe

Workshop
29 January - 1 December 2024
A close-up of Asha's hands painting during their workshop. Asha uses a thin paintbrush and paints black ink onto white paper.
A close-up of Asha's hands painting during their workshop. Asha uses a thin paintbrush and paints black ink onto white paper.

Join artist Asha Southcombe in exploring approaches to artistic experimentation in ACE's new series of practical workshops for secondary school artists.

When

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

29 January to 1 December 2024

MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION workshops support student artists in valuing experimentation over perfection, risk-taking over convention and redefining creative success.

This workshop with Asha Southcombe explores graphite and scratch board drawing approaches and is suitable for up to 20 student artists in years 9 to 12.

Date: Negotiated
Time: Negotiated
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
Cost: Full fee $1334 inc. GST
DfE School Cat 1-4 $1082 inc. GST

Feature Image: MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION: Asha Southcombe (2023), workshop documentation, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photography by Lana Adams.⁠

Experimentation of ideas and mediums drive contemporary art making. An artist’s ability to experiment and take risks will determine their potential for growth, concept development and creative output. Through persistent trial and error artists cultivate an intimate familiarity with their chosen medium: they unearth fresh perspectives, insights and unexpected connections between ideas and materials that give their work intricacy and depth.

Asha Southcombe is a South Australia artist and curator whose creative practice is heavily based around the act of mark making, working predominantly in drawing and scratchboard. Her process integrates personal thoughts and experiences, alongside her interests in mycology, queer ecology, the natural world and the human.

Read about ACE's booking and cancellation policy here.

3 students in Asha's workshop gather around the end of a table all painting onto scratchboard.
3 students in Asha's workshop gather around the end of a table all painting onto scratchboard.
MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION: Asha Southcombe (2023), workshop documentation, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photography by Lana Adams.⁠

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ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today. We acknowledge Elders past and present.

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