Are you working on your art folio at school or perhaps you enjoy drawing in your free-time? Sharpen up your observational drawing skills with artist Lily Mae Martin in these drop-by drawing sessions just for teens.
Set in the galleries of the 19th Century Australian Art Collection, enjoy drawing challenges related to art works while practicing skills and techniques such as contour, shading and texture to achieve three-dimensional effects with pencil and paper.
These sessions are created especially for secondary school students aged 12 to 18 years. No prior art experience is required, and all materials will be provided.
Numbers are limited so booking is recommended.
Lily Mae Martin is an award-winning Melbourne-based artist whose practice is based primarily in drawing. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in drawing from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Upon graduating in 2008 Lily Mae was awarded the Lionell Gell travelling scholarship which enabled her to travel to Europe. From there she resided in Berlin, Germany and then Cardiff, Wales for a number of years refining her drawing practice and exhibiting her work.
Since returning to Australia, Lily Mae has continued to exhibit her work and has been teaching drawing to all abilities. She was the winner of the 2016 Ursula Hoff Institute Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Award in the National Works on Paper exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and a finalist for the 2016 Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat. She has also been shortlisted for the 2016 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Adelaide Perry drawing prize 2017 and the Dobell Drawing Prize 2019. Lily Mae is represented by Scott Livesey Galleries in Naarm, Melbourne.
The NGV Teens program is generously supported by Beatrice Moignard, The Betsy and Ollie Polasek Endowment, JTM Foundation, Serp Hills Foundation, Alex & Brady Scanlon and Rachel Kwei.