SAW: Sawtooth Artist Workshops
Saturday 6th December, 2-4pm
Domestic Dioramas: Bathrooms and Bedrooms with Aicha Ouharda.
"In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the fundamentals of diorama-making while building a material awareness of easily accessible, repurposed, and recycled objects. Using your own photos of a bathroom or bedroom (or taking inspiration from a provided example), you’ll create a miniature scene from scratch, developing transferable 3D construction skills and simple techniques you can use well beyond this workshop.
By working with found materials, we’ll explore frugal and resourceful creative processes that embrace the unexpected. The world becomes your toolbox, limited only by your imagination (and maybe bin night).
Grounded in my broader practice (which uses mixed media and everyday materials to document, critique, and give form to lived experience), this workshop encourages participants to transform their inner observations into something tangible. My hope is that you walk away feeling emboldened to keep making in whatever way feels most accessible to you."
-
With an interest in social commentary and documentation, my practice can be described as auto-ethnographical at best. At its worst, it can be considered the visual summation of an obsession with social and menial observation. Whilst the latter isn’t as eloquently summarised as a hyphenated word, it’s at the heart of each body of work and is what furthers my understanding of the world, and my core artistic practice in response.
Despite my work being best viewed through a jovial and low-brow lens, it remains as an earnest attempt to share and connect with others. By inviting people to peer through my orange tinted glasses, I share observed motifs as well as my implied meaning and understood narratives behind them.
I offer up my own understanding and considerations when viewing the motifs of mundane life, and everything that can surround it. I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania.
-
This project is supported by City of Launceston.