Workshop: Introduction to Oil Painting & Arts Practice with Zev Tropp
Saturday, 31 August 2024
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’s oil painting workshop at Slag Heap Projects, 2024. Photo: Hester Lyon
Spin Cycle
6pm, 22nd February 2024
Slag Heap Projects launched its 2024 program with a prompt, a washing machine performing its final cycle set against the Alan Whicker’s 1970 documentary detailing the totalising grip of the Barrier Industrial Union over the isolated outback town of Broken Hill: ‘The Walled City’. This performance was first step in a process of consultation and collaboration for our inaugral 2024 exhibition, under|visible, which has asked artists to make work around our namesake, and the town’s most recognisable landmark the slag heap (or line of lode).
Images: Installation view, Spin cycle, Slag Heap Projects, Wilyakali Country, 22nd February 2024. Photos: Aimee Volkofsky. 
Slag Heap Projects x The Old Vic
Photographic printing workshop with rock pigments
10am - 1pm, 17th March 2024
Slag Heap Projects partnered with our neighbours The Old Vic to host a demonstration and workshop of Graeme Armstrong’s new photographic printing process, using rock pigments.
Graeme who has been developing new 'carbon' transfer printing processes using Broken Hill minerals as pigment instead of the traditional black ink/dye. He demonstrated the process, and we got ot experience his self-made rock pigment treadmill crusher. You’ll be invited to supply a photograph to develop your own rock pigment image.
Graeme’s research and development has been supported by the Broken Hill City Art Gallery as part of the 2023/2024 Open Cut Commission.
This program is proudly supported by Foundation Broken Hill.
Top image: Graeme Armstrong, rock pigment experimentations, Broken Hill 2023/2024. Courtesy the artist. Bottom image: Artists partcipating in workshop at The Old Vic, 2024. Photo: Hester Lyon.