Workshop: Who’s Afraid?

Emilie Syme-Lamont and Safak Gurboga, Who's afraid?, 2023, collage.

Workshop: Who’s Afraid?

$20 – Tickets essential

10am – 12pm

Friday, 30 June

Materials provided

Designed for young people aged 8 -11 years

Artists Emilie Syme-Lamont and Safak Gurboga present a monster-making visual arts workshop for young people exploring themes of mythology, shape-shifting, and identity inspired by their joint exhibition Who's Afraid?.

Participants will learn a variety of drawing, collage and mixed-media techniques influenced by the Surrealist Art Movement. They will participate in group activities together to create a large-scale felted wall monster, as well as their own unique creature on paper. Through this workshop, young people will learn about the importance of sharing our concerns and views through the language of art.

Emilie Syme-Lamont

Emilie Syme-Lamont (b. 1990) is a multimedia artist currently based out of Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.

Emilie borrows genre tropes from literary and cinematic Gothic traditions, such as haunted houses, ghost stories, ‘the double’ and psychologically charged spaces to inform her paintings and installations.

Emilie graduated from The National Art School in Sydney and holds an MFA in Drawing and a BFA in Painting. She has held solo exhibitions at M Contemporary (Sydney), Edwina Corlette Gallery (Brisbane) and PINCE projects (Budapest). Her body of work includes painting, drawing, ceramics, and more recently, sound, silicone, tattooing, and bookmaking. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, the USA, and Europe, and in the National Art School Archives in Sydney.