Saturday the 14th of June 2-4pm.

Learn how to stretch a canvas! Tony Curran will take visitors through the process of stretching a raw canvas over a frame. Using the method that he uses to prepare his own canvases for painting and exhibition, participants will learn about stretcher bars, different types of canvas, how to hold canvas pliers and how to correct any mistakes along the way.

Tony Curran is an artist based in Launceston in Lutruwita. He works across painting and digital media creating drawing upon the traditions of gestural abstraction and graphical user-interfaces. Tony is also the Head of Art at the University of Tasmania in the School of Creative Arts and Media.