Visual Arts

Artist of the Week

Next week’s Artist of the week is Max T of 1ET.

Max’s works are a wonderful example of the work that all the grade 1 and 2 children have been working on since the beginning of the year. They, and he, began by creating a collaged self-portrait using scraps of cardboard cut from cereal boxes. They were encouraged to glue down layers of cardboard in some sections and final details were added with string. This collage process took 3 art lessons to complete.

The following lesson Max used his collage under a piece of paper and made a crayon rubbing impression. Then he rolled paint all over the collage and pressed a clean piece of paper over it to take a print, known as a collagraph.

In the final lesson Max used oil pastels to add further details and highlights. 3 brilliant artworks for the price of one!!

Great work Max!

Mirka Mora News from Heide

Curators at Heide Museum of Modern Art were overwhelmed by the incredible public response to the 'Mirka for Melbourne' fundraising campaign, initiated by The Design Files.

Thanks to the generosity of Mirka fans in Melbourne and beyond, the campaign raised $203,850 in just 9 days!

This amazing result, together with some offline donations, helped Heide secure 30 lots from Mirka’s studio contents before the auction at Leonard Joel, together with her archive of personal papers and the major painting ‘When the Soul Sleeps’ (1970). On auction day they acquired further paints, props, artworks and personal effects, and the stunning large-scale mural that once adorned the walls of Tolarno French Bistro in the 1960s and 70s.

Mirka’s son, William Mora said: ‘'We are especially delighted that the rare and significant mural, which once hung at Tolarno, has found a home exactly where it should have, at Heide, for all to enjoy for many years to come."

Heide Artistic Director Lesley Harding added: “I think Mirka would have been touched and honoured that the people of Melbourne - her much loved adopted home city - have so enthusiastically shown their desire to see her work in a public collection at Heide.”

They plan to display the entire Mirka collection in the Heide I house in a free exhibition very soon, to celebrate the success of the campaign and ensure the public can see it as quickly as possible.

Meanwhile, Heide is celebrating Mirka’s extraordinary life and career at Heide with Mirka Mora: Pas de Deux – Drawings and Dolls, which brings together some of the artist’s most personal work: drawings and soft-sculpture dolls from her home and studio. Showing until 24 March.

Children in grades 3 and 4 are currently working on their own Mirka Mora inspired dolls, and would love a visit to Heide with their families.

Mirka Mora with one of her dolls

Photo: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au

Mrs Hortin and Mrs Trevorrow