Inner West Creative Trails
Midjuburi Precinct
Saturday & Sunday / 12 & 13 August 2023 . 11am – 4pm
The fabulous Inner West Creative Trails is back (the above images are from our 2022 event) and we have an action packed schedule lined up with an exhibition of artists from the Illawarra, performance artists, resident artists, and art students all working and ready to interact.
This event is supported and sponsored by the Inner West Council.
Scroll down for full details on participating Artists
Saturday
11 am – 4 pm
Gallery Exhibition / Remnants
Remnants is the third iteration of our ArtsConnex Project that highlights works from Regional Artists, and supported with an Arts Project Grant from the Inner West Council. This year Curator Maggie Jane has brought together a group of highly-inspired experimental artists from the Illawarra Region, NSW.
Featured Artists / William O’Toole, Clare O’Toole, and William Hilzinger
Studios / Resident Artists working full time out of our studios
We currently have four studios where Artists can work and develop their practise and two studios for current and past students to continue and develop their skills of connection and observation through drawing and painting.
Join our current resident artists Maggie Jane, Kaspar Kagi, Carolina Simpson, & Carmel Byrne and see what happens in what we call, the Engine Room, behind the Gallery in our Studios.
11am – 2pm
Painting for Beginners / Class in Action
This is the 7th and final week for our Painting I students. See how they have learnt to construct and layer a still life painting over the seven weeks in paint.
2 pm
Remnants / Curator introduction / Artist Q&A, and official opening event
Join Curator Maggie Jane and the artists for a floor talk.
A desolate exploration of consumerism through painted works on nostalgic woollen blankets and suburban Astro-turf, offset by handcrafted, graphic sculptures immortalising single use packaging. Between comfort and artifice, the exhibition explores our complex emotional relationship with material possessions and environmental consequences of our insatiable desire for the new, driven by global marketing behemoths preying on the basic human urges of discovery and transformation.
Curator / Maggie Jane
3 pm
Performance / Natalie Tso . Two Seasons
Natalie Tso’s Two Seasons is a performance about performance, as an art form and in the everyday. It weaves between the performed and the true to question spectatorship upon bodies in social spaces. It draws upon knowledge developed from a previous collaborative work called Animate Loading which was led by multi-disciplinary disabled artists.
Sunday
11 am – 4 pm
Gallery Exhibition / Remnants
Studios / Resident artists
11.30 – 11.50am
Director’s Talk / Carmel Byrne
Scratch Director and Artist Carmel Byrne will give a talk about the how and why of Scratch Art Space, how she manages her own practice while running a business, and how Scratch Art Space operates and connects with our community.
12:00 – 3:00pm
Almost Life Drawing
We have a model (in a leotard) booked for this free almost life drawing session. See what a life drawing session looks like with some of our regular drawing group at the easels. We’ll have plenty of easels, charcoal, and paper if you want to try to experience drawing the model.
12pm
Performance / Bonnie Cowan . note
Bonnie wishes she was someone who kept a diary. She seems like the type of person who would keep a diary. The closest thing she has to a diary is the notes app on her phone.
For over a decade, across 5 generations of iPhone, Bonnie has tapped notes to herself on quiet commutes. From youthful professions of puppy love, to grocery lists, to the draft version of Big Messages; this notes app has seen it all.
Drop in to Scratch Art Space between 12pm-2pm on Sunday for a 1:1 experience with Bonnie and get intimate with her [notes app].
3pm
Performance / Tom Isaacs . Die Wunde
Presenting current work entitled Die Wunde, Tom Isaacs, a Sydney-based contemporary artist and curator works primarily in the fields of performance and textile art. His practice draws from psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, religious and ritual practices, and art history to explore themes of mental illness, mortality, and the human condition.
Performance Artists
Natalie Tso
Image Credit: Natalie Quan Yau Tso, dear, from (2022-ongoing). Photography by Sineenart Meena.
Tom Isaacs
Bonnie Cowan
Studio Artists
Carmel Byrne
Maggie Jane
Carolina Simpson
Kaspar Kagi
Exhibiting Artists / Remnants
William Hilzinger
Clare O’Toole
William O’Toole
