Tim Croucher – Thing of painting and the transmute
This practical workshop is for teachers and enthusiasts of painting who want to explore how paintings can be made and undone and remade through familiar and unfamiliar conditions. This could be entertaining and creative for its own sake or could be a jumping off point for a painting project for students.
We’ll spend the session working on one or two paintings each, from scratch. We’ll use a series of prompting moves to, develop a pictorial idea, play with paint media, colour, composition, the anticipated and the absurd. We’ll talk about what we make as we go and look at the work of some other artists to get ideas and put what we’re doing in some context.
If we get time, we might also talk about some more general approaches to painting and its context, in relation to our own work.
Participants should bring a selection of their favorite artists acrylic paint and brushes if possible. We will supply some too.
Biography
Tim has been living in Hamilton for almost 30 years and making and exhibiting paintings from there.
He’s has been in exhibitions in NZ and some in China in collaboration with artists from there, been involved in a committee that instigates, curates and funds large public sculpture projects, and in the development of an annual Street Art Festival.
He’s taught Painting, Drawing and Installation at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since late last century in the School of Media Arts at Wintec
Dani lives in Kihikihi south of Hamilton with her typographer partner, Jordan and their little dude of a son, Noah.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Whitecliffe College of Fine Arts and makes vibrant, lyrical paintings that evoke responses to contemporary domestic life.
Dani teaches in practice and theory in the Bachelor of Contemporary Art in the School of Media Arts at Wintec.
Dani and Tim have worked together collaboratively in teaching and agree and disagree about how to do it, but always seem to enjoy it.