Explore the physicality of landscape painting with artist Sophie Cape.
In this workshop, participants will be guided by Sophie Cape to explore different painting processes while working in the landscape. This workshop is for all levels and abilities, whether you are just starting out or are an experienced artist looking to expand your creative practice.
About Sophie Cape
Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, the work of Sophie Cape straddles the sublime with a cathartic expulsion of energy.
Visceral and dramatic, harking back to her past as an elite and damaged athlete, Cape seeks a raw, direct expression through engagement with the body’s physicality in order to render an instinctual and emotional act of expression.
Working outside in the desert, free from constraints, using unconventional mediums and revelling in their gross materiality, Cape excavates her unconscious in the desire to rip the figure and face wide open. These works are psychological self portraits, voicing the dialogue between the internal and external landscape, and of past and present experience.
The contrast of survival and decay, be it in a desert landscape, in the physical body, or in the mind, is where Cape is searching for what lies between the beauty and the horror that is the exquisite tragedy of the human condition. Offering a theatrical encounter with the spectator in the hope of breaking through language, to touch life.
En plein air Artmaking Series
Immerse yourself in the landscape that inspired Arthur Boyd through this series of en plein air workshops. Spread over 1000 hectares, this beautiful setting of the Shoalhaven River and rugged bushland has featured in many of Boyd’s works and inspired artists for decades.
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Sunday 6 April | Artmaking at the Homestead with Nicole Kelly
