SAW: Sawtooth Artist Workshops
Sunday 7th September, 2-4pm
Experimental, camera-less photography with Simone Darcy
After being shown a range of camera-less techniques demonstrated by Simone you will have the opportunity to create a unique artwork that reflects on your own body/skin, interior and exterior markings through intuitive play, using resists, organic materials and a range of art tools
Resulting work will come together to form a collaborative overlapping work within Sawtooth space at a later date TBC.
A few examples Simone has explored in her own work abstractly are -"Recently I had a mammogram for the first time which made me feel really vulnerable. I have a number of small scars on one hand from when I was a teen and rode a motor bike through a barbed wire fence in the middle of the night. I also have a failed tattoo on my arm!"
All equipment and materials will be supplied on the day.
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Born in Bedgerabong NSW on Wiradjuri land
I am an Australian photo-based artist exploring the interplay between performance, repetition, and the materiality of image-making. My work incorporates both straight and hybrid photographic forms, often shaped by eco-friendly techniques and a commitment to sustainability in the arts. Through processes such as chemigrams, experimental darkroom methods, and more recently, eco-gumoil and phytogram techniques.
My work explores themes of embodiment, ritual, and the passage of time, and our shifting relationship with nature. I’m interested in how gestures, traces, and materials can hold memory and meaning, often revealing what lies beneath the surface. It is often deeply informed by my lived experience as a woman, artist, and mother. Through layered imagery and experimental mark-making to examine the physical and psychological effects of the body.
Image details: Marked Flesh 2024, Chemigram, Silver Gelatin Print. Created at Qbank Artist Residency, Queenstown TAS.