Arts Trail Live 2022

Arts North West hit the road and delivered a series of creative development workshops across our region. Four free workshops were delivered over the weekend of 17 & 18 September 2022 for Arts Trail Live.

“Our first three workshops for Arts Trail Live were wonderful. Having a powerhouse, generous talent like Buddy Knox, a passionate artist with so much knowledge to share like Kay Gray, and a veteran teacher and artist like Andrew Parker providing workshops to our communities in one day, was such an honour,” Michèle said.

The project was made possible by funding from the RAF Cultural Tourism Accelerator program and was designed to encourage arts tourism across the New England North West region, allowing people a chance to take part in a creative activity in one weekend.

The artist facilitators and venues in this project were:

Kay Gray

Eco-Dyeing workshop

Ceramic Break Sculpture Park – Warialda

Buddy Knox

‘Sing A Song With Me’ performance workshop

Yaama Ganu Gallery – Moree

Robert Dunn

Digital Photography Fundamentals

Wee Waa Community Arts and Cultural Centre - Wee Waa

Andrew Parker

‘Everything you wanted to know about clay but were too afraid to ask’

Fuller Gallery/Barraba Potters and Craft Guild - Barraba

Eco dyeing with Kay Gray

17 September 2022, Warialda

Spend a day with Tenterfield-based textile artist Kay Gray as she takes you through the popular, environmentally-conscious creative workshop of eco-dyeing at the Ceramic Break Sculpture Park, south of Warialda.

Kay will guide participants with a step-by-step process on the eco-printing process, including safety knowledge,

People are invited to bring along leaves and flowers from their gardens or environment for the workshop, and Kay will bring along plenty of botanical materials for people to use - plus, the Sculpture Park is situated in a beautiful bush setting with a wealth of natural inspiration!

Projects will include an eco-dyed printed silk scarf, and eco-printed card. All participants will receive a booklet of information to take home.

Participants are invited to bring along a friend to watch the process, and visit the Park.

All materials provided. Morning tea and lunch provided for participants.

Open to ages 16 and up.

Performance with Buddy Knox

17 September, Moree

Share your talent and learn new skills with Tamworth-based, renowned blues musician Buddy Knox at Moree’s Yaama Ganu Gallery, as he takes participants through the steps of songwriting and basics of music performance, such as chord progression, song structure. Learn blues guitar, blues vocals, stage performance.

Participants will choose a theme for the songwriting session and the group will collaborate to write a song. Buddy will perform the song with the group, with a session of Sing a Song With Me, where participants can sing with Buddy to gain confidence.

Multiple award-winning guitarist and singer/songwriter Buddy Knox has four decades of national and international performing experiences, including many major music festivals with his family Blues Band. He won the NSW Blues Performer of the Year twice, giving him the right to compete at Memphis at the International Blues Challenge.

Buddy delights in mentoring others, especially young emerging talents, delivering workshops to emerging vocalists and guitarists to mentor them to a performance standard both locally and nationally though workshops, blues boot camps, and daily mentoring for young talents in Tamworth.

Participants should bring their instruments if they choose, or a song they have written and would like help with.

Morning tea and lunch provided for participants.

Open to ages 12 and up.

Photography with Robert Dunn

30 October 2022, Wee Waa (postponed due to flooding)

Fine tune your photography skills with Narrabri professional photographer Robert Dunn with a Digital Photography Fundamentals workshop at the Wee Waa Arts & Cultural Centre! The day starts at 11am, and will finish at 6PM to cover capturing sunsets. The workshop will cover the general concepts of digital photography from:

• Teaching people the ISO / Shutter / Aperture setup
• Composition rules and principals and all things in between
• Getting out of the "automatic" mode on their cameras and dive into into manual shooting
• Getting out and about in Wee Waa to take photos
• Some theory and practical exercises, presentations, and a review of work captured throughout the day, including basic editing if time permits

Photography styles to include landscapes, portraits and still life (plus any other topic time will permit). Questions encouraged!

Participants should bring their digital cameras - preferably DSLR, but Robert can work with students with smartphone/iPhones with cameras including manual or 'Pro' settings.

Lunch and afternoon tea provided.

Open to ages 16 and up.

Ceramics with Andrew Parker

17 September 2022, Barraba

Arts North West invites the community to a free workshop with Uralla-based ceramicist Andrew Parker at Barraba’s Fuller Gallery.

Spend the day in this techniques-inclusive workshop which Andrew informally has titled Everything you wanted to know about clay but were too afraid to ask. With a career start in 1976 and long career of experience to share, Andrew will take participants through a variety of approaches as the interest arises, including:

• What the participants want to know (workshop to begin with a "getting to know you" session and general discussion)
• Throwing - the no fiddling about direct method
• Slip carved decoration - very similar to lino cut or wood block printing but easier
• Making slabs without a roller - the quick and easy way (when you know how) ... and much more!

Morning tea and lunch provided, and all materials included.

Open to ages 16 and up.

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