Workshop: Introduction to Oil Painting & Arts Practice with Zev Tropp
Saturday, 31 August & Sunday, 1 September
11am-3pm
Join us for a fun and engaging introduction to oil painting and artistic practice with artist Zev Tropp. This two-day workshop will explore various techniques, including colour mixing, preparing grounds, solvent burning, and other essential methods. Alongside these technical skills, we'll discuss different approaches to painting, focusing on materiality, technique, and concept. The workshop is designed to be informal and accessible, with no prior skills, education, or experience required!
This workshop is funded by West Darling Arts.
This workshop is $25 and includes all materials. Register to secure your spot.
About Zev:
Zev Tropp is a contemporary artist and arts worker who has worked across small-to-medium arts organisations and galleries. Most recently, he worked as a producer in Public Programming at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, co-directed the ARI 'Small Time Studio' in Mullumbimby and has worked in adult education running workshops in painting and contemporary arts practice. In 2019, he exhibited the solo show New Colour Futurism at Green Monday Studio and curated the Bushfire fundraiser Art From The Heart at Block Projects in 2020. He was a recent finalist in the Hazelhurst Works On Paper prize in 2022 and has recently shown at PROP Gallery No Lies Here and the City Of Sydney - Public Hoardings Project in 2023 and Airspace Projects with Chloe Abdel-Nour - GLIMMERS in 2024. Zev previously produced and ran inclusive Hip Hop nights in Melbourne and has been teaching Yoga/Meditation. Zev is of Jewish-Indian heritage, and studied at RMIT and Victorian College of the Arts, completing his honours in Fine Art in 2019. Zev’s art practice and interests are centred around an engagement with marginalised voices, identities and politics.
Image credit: Zev Tropp in studio. Photo: Maxwell Finch
Walks
Walking is at the centre of Slag Heap Projects, as a methdology for generating collective knowledge between artists and non-artists. This is an ongoing series, which began with walks at Imperial Lakes and up the Slag Heap in March 2024.
Imperial Lakes
with Landcare ranger Dave Elston and Barrier Field Naturalists’ President Semitj Hopcraft9am, 16 March 2024
We walked Imperial Lakes with ranger, Dave Elston and Barrier Field Naturalists’ President Semitj Hopcraft to learn about how Broken Hill Landcare have approached conservation within a historical mining site.
This was the second of a series of walks for 2024, as we prepare for our first show of 2024, under|visible, opening in April.
A night walk up the Slag Heap
7:30pm, 14 March 2024
We were joined by 20 women and non-bonary folk for a walk up the Slag Heap. As the beginning of community research for our first exhibition of 2024, under|visible, this night walk asked the community to simply be next to and notice the Slag Heap’s presence as both site and metaphor. By torch light, we walked in groups and alone exploring the particular architecture, geology and cultural landscape of this site.
Images: Imperial Lakes and Slag Heap walks, Wilyakali Country, 2024. Photos: Verity Nunan and Hester Lyon.