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Brent Harris: Surrender and Catch Educator Briefing and Workshop
Saturday 6 July, 2024
$150, $130 TRT, Department for Education teachers and AGSA members
Join artist Brent Harris and Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs for a tour of Brent Harris: Surrender and Catch. Moving between figuration and abstraction, Harris deploys both humour and the grotesque to examine psychological subject matter and visualise his complex and contradictory feelings. Indeed, the exhibition title refers to Harris’ interest in sociologist Kurt H. Wolff’s notion of ‘surrender and catch’ as a process for self-analysis and as a method of working.
Following the exhibition tour and morning tea, celebrate making in the moment with artist and educator Luke Thurgate. This workshop will respond to various aspects of Brent Harris’s studio practice. Participants will explore a range of process based drawing exercises which utilise chance and play to move between representation and abstraction. We invite you to bring a small non-valuable object from home to share as the starting point for the workshop. These will be used as a prompt for storytelling and as subject matter for our initial exercises.
Lunch and morning tea provided.
Brent Harris: Surrender and Catch catalogue now available.
Bookings for this workshop are now closed.
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Photo: Sam Roberts.
Luke Thurgate is an artist and educator based in Sydney. He studied at the University of Newcastle, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2007. He is currently completing a Master of Fine Art at the National Art School where he also teaches drawing. Before moving to Sydney, Luke was a lecturer and public programs manager at Adelaide Central School of Art. He has held exhibition and education programming roles at the Art Gallery of South Australia and Newcastle Art Gallery.
Luke’s practice re-appropriates cultural signifiers used in the construction and deconstruction of identity. He is interested in a range of tensions that exist in contemporary figurative art making and explores these through sculptures, paintings and drawings. His work references masculinity, violence, romance and death.
Luke has exhibited extensively in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. He was the inaugural artist in residence at Burra Regional Art Gallery and has also done residences at Seymour College and Art Lab Australia. He has been a finalist in numerous art prizes including the 2020 Tom Bass Figurative Sculpture Prize, the 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize and the 2017 Whyalla Art Prize. Luke is represented in NSW by .M Contemporary.