50 McGregor Workshop Delivery Fee: This covers additional materials, tools, & models (where relevant) specific to this workshop. These will be supplied by McGregor at time of workshop. Payable at time of workshop registration.
$400 BYO Material & Tools cost (approximately): Please refer to the online ‘Workshop Schedule, and Materials & Tools List’.
There is an unclothed life model in this workshop
Workshop Outline
Whether you’ve never painted or had been painting all your life, participants will get something very special from the unique painting approach which David has developed over 50 years painting. He will explain his technique of painting from dark to light using negative space. He will also encourage participants to find their own special style and provide useful information about how to achieve success in your work. Many of Davids participants have gone on to have successful careers as practising and exhibiting artists.
Dr David Hinchliffe has been painting and selling his works for over 50 years with more than 100 solo shows to his name. In the last 15 years his ‘contemporary impressionist’ paintings have met with international commercial success. Born and educated in Toowoomba, he is now a Brisbane resident who travels Australia and the world exhibiting, selling and teaching. The Japanese Society of Artists refer to him as a master. David is a member of the distinguished Salmagundi Club of Artists in New York and has recently been included in the international Mastrius US-based mentoring program.
Daniel Butterworth
Level: All
Suitable for students aged 16+
Estimated Materials/Tools Cost:
$50 McGregor Workshop Delivery Fee: this covers additional materials, tools, & models (where relevant) specific to this workshop. These will be supplied by McGregor at time of workshop. Payable at time of workshop registration.
$150 BYO Material & Tools cost (approximately): Please refer to the online ‘Workshop Schedule, and Materials & Tools List’.
There is an unclothed life model in this workshop
Workshop Outline
This painting workshop will explore paint application, composition, scale, mark making, and colour through looking at the portrait, landscape, still life, figure, and life drawing. Students will be encouraged to explore, find what excites them when creating, to then be able to develop one genre or explore more with Daniel’s guidance.
Daniel Butterworth is a figurative artist, who uses images of himself in much of his work to express social, political and personal views. Having started his working life as a sign-writer, Daniel later completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Latrobe University and has been a practising artist for more than 20 years. Dan has had numerous solo and group exhibitions and has been a finalist in a large number of high profile portrait prizes, including the Doug Moran Portraiture Prize and the Archibald. Daniel is now in demand as a guest artist and teacher in Australia. Daniel works from his studio in Kyneton, Victoria.
David Bongiorno
Level: All
Estimated Materials/Tools Cost:
$287 McGregor Workshop Delivery Fee: this covers additional materials, tools, & models (where relevant) specific to this workshop. These will be supplied by McGregor at time of workshop. Payable at time of workshop registration.
There is a clothed and nude life model present
Workshop Outline
Adventure into the world of drawing with a focus on the figure. This workshop will supercharge your technical drawing skills, using graphite pencils and charcoal to accelerate your technique and anatomical understanding of the most difficult parts of figure drawing, focussing on the head, hands and feet. Broaden your knowledge of technique with a deep dive into shading, blending, accent lines, the weight of a mark and the nature of light and tonal patterns and shapes to describe form.
David Bongiorno is an award-winning figurative artist working in Maleny, Queensland. David has participated in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Steps Gallery, Brunswick, The Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Gatakers Artspace Regional Gallery and Caloundra Regional Gallery. He has undertaken private commissions, and has works in private and public collections. David has participated in local and national art prizes including “Emerging Wearable Artist Winner” at the Australian Wearable Art Festival 2022, and has arts management, curation, teaching and mentoring experience.
Kim Ah Sam
Level: All
Suitable for students aged 16+
Estimated Materials/Tools Cost:
$80 McGregor Workshop Delivery Fee: this covers additional materials, tools, & models (where relevant) specific to this workshop. These will be supplied by McGregor at time of workshop. Payable at time of workshop registration.
$20 BYO Material & Tools cost (approximately). Please refer to the online ‘Workshop Schedule, and Materials & Tools List’.
Workshop Outline
Learn a variety of weaving practices that embody storytelling and knowledge sharing.
This workshop explores techniques of weaving, including woven sculptures made from repurposed twine, raffia, bamboo and emu feathers.
Kim Ah Sam is a Kuku Yalanji and Kalkadoon woman whose art practice is based around her cultural and spiritual identity. An abiding theme of her work is investigating ways of spiritually, reconnecting with her father’s country, the Kalkadoon. Kim works across drypoint, etching, weaving, printmaking and paper making. Kim’s weaving process is often collaborative, involving storytelling and knowledge-sharing, a practice which is deeply embedded in First Nations communities Australia-wide. Kim has recently shown at Milani Gallery, Vivian Andersen Gallery, the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair at Cairns Regional Art Gallery, and has recently undertaken a residency at the Brisbane Museum. Her work is held in the collection at the Museum of Brisbane, QUT and recent public artwork includes projects in Ipswich City Council and Rio Tinto.
Russell Shakespeare
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Suitable for students aged 16+
Estimated Materials/Tools Cost:
$245 McGregor Workshop Delivery Fee: this covers additional materials, tools, & models (where relevant) specific to this workshop. These will be supplied by McGregor at time of workshop. Payable at time of workshop registration.
BYO Material & Tools List: Bring Your Own camera + lens, and laptop or iPad with Photoshop installed (for those who do not have either a laptop or iPad, you will have access to the Mac Lab in the Photographic Department.
Workshop Outline
This intermediate/advanced level workshop with professional photographer Russell Shakespeare, provides an insight into the life of a professional working photographer, with tips around how to make a living as a photographer as well as developing long term personal photography projects. You will learn how to photograph people for publication, documentary style (on site and in a studio); how to plan and prepare for a photoshoot, studio lighting on location, and in the studio; how to document research trips; and how to up your postproduction game, and self-publish. This workshop will also cover making your own website through the Squarespace platform.
Russell Shakespeare is a Photographer working in digital and analogue, based on the Gold Coast. His work has been published in many national magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Qantas Magazine, Gourmet Traveller, The Deal, Q Weekend, The Good Weekend, Time, Australian Traveller, Financial Review and The Weekend Australian magazine, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and in books by, among others, The Magnum Foundation, Australian Geographic, The Museum of Brisbane and The Tim Fairfax Family Foundation.
Awards include The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (four times Finalist, 2007-2014), Black and White Photographer of the Year (Documentary, Finalist, 2015), National Photographic Portrait Prize (two times Finalist, 2020,2011), Olive Cotton Exhibition (six times Finalist, 2006- 2021) and Walkley Award for Journalism (best news photograph, 1995). Works in collections include the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, Redcliffe Art Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
