Make a flip-book animation

Next date: Saturday, 18 January 2025 | 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM

These school holidays, escape the heat and join us in our Artist studios for a fun and experimental hand drawn animation activity – make a flip-book! Inspired by William Kentridge’s exhibition, I am not me, the horse is not mine, participants will enjoy a guided tour of the William Kentridge exhibition, followed by a hands on creative drawing activity led by artist Rosie Gordon. Flip-book animation uses multiple drawings with slight differences between each one to give the effect of change and motion when the stacked pages are flipped. All materials provided, and morning tea included.

Tickets: $20, limited places. Ages: 7 - 12 years

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One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art, South African artist William Kentridge is best known for his drawings, prints and animations. He uses his drawings to make films and often works in pencil and charcoal. His artworks explore connections between art, history and memory, and how images repeat across time and between diverse cultures.

This workshop is facilitated by artist Rosie Gordon. Rosie facilitates our weekly After school art classes for tweens and teens. Rosie was born and raised in Byron Bay and spent her youth making photo realistic drawings from her family home in Ewingsdale. The meticulous detail gave her a sense of control in a chaotic, boisterous household, and her drawing practice helped her feel grounded and calm.

Rosie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Southern Cross Uni and has won numerous awards for her drawings, including four People's Choice Awards and a Best Emerging Artist Award judged by Michael Zavros. In recent years, and with the influence of her daughter (12), she has learned the value of play and having a more free-form kind of expression as a way to unwind and process the world around her.

About the exhibition

One of the most powerful voices in art today, William Kentridge, emerged as an artist during the apartheid regime in South Africa. Grounded in the violent absurdity of that period in his country’s history, his artworks draw connections between art, ideology, history and memory. They reveal the ways in which ideas and images echo across time and between different cultures.

Kentridge’s eight-channel video work I am not me, the horse is not mine is among the artist’s most ambitious moving image works and arguably the most significant work by the artist in an Australian museum collection. It premiered at the Biennale of Sydney in 2008 and was gifted to the Art Gallery of New South Wales by Anita and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis in 2017.

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Lismore Regional Gallery, 11 Rural Street, Lismore, 2480, View Map