Allende and Pinochet, Jesse Dayan

MAC Drawing tutor, Jesse Dayan will be exhibiting at C3 Contemporary Art Space with Adrian and Daniel Stojkovich. The exhibition entitled, ‘Where Were You? All Things’, features reproduced images from...

Tony Irving

Tony Irving will be speaking at Enderby Studio Art Program next Tuesday.  A Melbourne-based artist, Tony’s figurative work often originates from everyday life and contains playful narrative nuances. The work demonstrates a mastery...

New painting course

With a full Studio Art Program during recent terms, we have decided to start a new program which is similar in format but with a focus on painting. Our new...

No Hair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoOzExSLA44 Bella, our children’s class teaching assistant, is going to shave her head to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation. To raise awareness for the cause she has put together...

Andrea Smith

Our guest artist speaking at Enderby Studio Art Program this week is Andrea Smith. Trained in the academic tradition in Florence, Andrea Smith fuses classical technique, sensitive use of tone and a subtle play of...

After Delacroix

As part of her painting studies in our Studio Art Program, Jo Wellington completed this wonderful copy of a part of Eugene Delacroix’s, The Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, 1823-1824....

“Despite its status as the presumed art commodity par excellence, painting has regained new conceptual force. This lecture will argue that part of the reason for this is painting’s singular...

Another of Lauren Ottaway’s dog paintings

Another painting of a dog by Lauren Ottaway. She describes something of Milo’s personality. Lauren is a participant in our studio art program.

Lauren Ottaway, Louis the Frenchie

Aside from the abstract works which are described in the previous post, Lauren also paints some wonderful figurative works. This image of Louis the dog beautifully describes something of the dog’s personality....

Lauren Ottaway on preparing for her exhibition

Lauren Ottaway is about to exhibit in three weeks, painting madly and in her own words, “doing some shameless self-promotion”. Lauren is a Melbourne based artist and a participant in...

Lily at work in the Young Artist Program

Lily who is 10, with her drip painting.

David Palliser moves to Block Projects

ESAP guest artist David Palliser has moved to Block Projects gallery in Richmond.

Children and art

The following is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent earlier today which may be of help in understanding what I am trying to do in the Young Artist Program....

Why do we make art and does art really matter? Kevin Brennan, our guest speaker this Tuesday the 5th and Friday the 15th, will be exploring these questions. Kevin has...

Jesse Dayan Life Drawing short course

Due to Jesse having been invited to present at a symposium of the Royal College of Arts, the previously scheduled Melbourne Art Class short course in Life Drawing is now...

Managing a Creative Project

Often, working creatively is seen as a completely intuitive, whimsical and spontaneous process. Nobody that I know, who is producing consistently, works in this way. While intuition and spontaneity do...

Managing your creativity

It can be difficult to do creative work when you have limited time and have to maintain other responsibilities such as study, work and family. So how can you achieve...

David Palliser

A recent painting by guest artist, David Palliser. www.davidpalliser.com