HART Hub #12: Acrylic Adventures with Merryn Trevethan
Introduction to acrylic gels, pastes, grounds and mediums
(中文在下方) Join HART Social Studio artist and certified Golden Artist Educator Merryn Trevethan in this jam-packed hands-on introduction to acrylic paints and mediums!
This workshop welcomes all passionate spirits without experience in painting, or artists trying new mediums. You will learn by exploring innovative ways to use acrylics in this workshop. While exploring with colours, the participants will be introduced to and hence discover the different textural effects possible with a wide range of paints, gels, pastes, and grounds. You can learn about the possibilities of changing the viscosity of your paints by creating washes, glazes, as well as how to create thick textures with pastes and gels. The combinations are infinite!
Registration and event details as follows:
Date: 27/8/2022 (Saturday)
Time: 14:00-16:00 (2 Hours)
Language: English
Number of participants: 12
Location:
HART Haus
3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong
Fee: HKD500
Including all paints, gels, mediums, 4 prepared A5 boards and all other tools. Participants are welcome to take their works home!
HART Hub #12: Acrylic Adventures with Merryn Trevethan
塑膠彩體驗：凝膠、漿糊、底料與調合劑
邀請大家參與由 Golden 藝術教育家（Golden Artist Educator）Merryn Trevethan 主持，環節緊湊的塑膠彩與調合劑體驗班！
無論你是初學者，還是富實驗精神的藝術家，你也能在使用塑膠彩發揮創意時得到樂趣。參加者在運用色彩的期間，將會認識各種顏料、凝膠、糊劑與底料，以及它們多變的紋理效果。你可以了解如何透過改變顏料的黏度，製造波紋、上釉，以及使用凝膠和糊劑創作不同厚度的紋理，展現無窮的可能性。
請登記參與，創作自己的作品並帶回家中！
活動詳情：
日期：2022年8月27日（星期六）
時間：下午2時至4時（兩小時）
語言：英文
名額：12人
地點：
HART Haus
堅尼地城士美菲路 12P 祥興工業大廈 3 樓
費用：港幣500元
包括所有顏料、凝膠、調合劑，以及4塊配備的 A5 板和其他所需工具。歡迎參加者把作品帶走！
About the Artist 關於藝術家
Merryn Trevethan is an Australian artist currently based in Hong Kong. Her abstracted, hyper-saturated artworks are inspired by the changing nature and structure of cities. She examines how we see, navigate and record our experiences of urban environments. Her paintings, drawings, murals and objects are layered in site-responsive installations to reflect different modes of seeing, inviting viewers to relate to and be critical of our surroundings.
Merryn graduated with an MFA from Monash University, Melbourne (2005). She was recently commissioned by Australian Theatre for Young People to create a mural for their new premises on Sydney Harbour. Merryn created murals for Facebook OpenArts program in 2020 and 2015. She was one of ten artists (and co-curator) of Bus.Stop.Art public art project, commissioned by National Arts Council for Singapore Art Week 2021. Key residencies include Golden Foundation Residency Program, New York (2018) and Red Gate International Artist Residency, Beijing, China (2009). She has held solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Singapore and the USA and participated in public art festivals in Melbourne and iSingapore where in 2014 she was awarded first prize for DRIVE - Public Art Festival Open Call. Curatorial projects include Bus.Stop.Art- a National Arts Council commissioned project for Singapore Art Week 2021, Rules of Engagement- a Public Square Programme, The Substation, Singapore (2019) and This Wild Song x Singapore celebrating International Women’s Day at the Australian High Commission, Singapore (2018). She is currently a studio resident at HART HAUS Social Studio in Hong Kong.
Merryn Trevethan 是一位現居香港的澳洲藝術家。她抽象、高飽和的藝術作品受到城市變幻無常的大自然和城巿的結構啟發。她研究了我們如何看待、導航和記錄我們對城市環境的體驗。她的繪畫、素描和雕塑在現場響應裝置中分層，以反映不同的觀看模式，邀請觀眾聯繫我們周圍的環境並對其提出批評。
Merryn 畢業於墨爾本莫納什大學（Monash University），獲得碩士學位（2005 年）。她是由國家藝術委員會為 2021 年新加坡藝術週委託的 Bus.Stop.Art 公共藝術項目的十位藝術家（兼聯合策展人）之一。Merryn 於 2020 年和 2015 年為 Facebook OpenArts 項目創作了壁畫，並獲得了新加坡的 DRIVE 公共藝術獎。主要駐留項目包括紐約 Golden Foundation 駐留項目（2018 年）和中國北京紅門國際駐地項目（2009 年）。她曾在澳洲、新加坡和美國舉辦過個展和群展。