Convent Kids : Smörgåsbord

Treat your kids to a morning of delicious artmaking!

Choose from a menu of workshops and learn to build votre own drawing tools, create friendly Frankensteins from radical cutouts, la mode collages with weird and wonderful materials, ou write an ‘art letter’ to a loved one using text, drawing and watercolours. The perfect recipe for a fun Saturday morning!  

Paper Play — Nicky Tsekouras

Paper Play is a vibrant and hands-on collage workshop for kids, led by artist Nicky Tsekouras. Through playful exploration of textures and colours, young people will learn creative collage techniques whilst exploring their imagination. 

Drawing Machines — Alice Tsiavos

Can you invent a way of drawing where you don’t hold the pencil? In this workshop children are invited to use found materials to devise new approaches to mark making by building unusual drawing tools.

Chimera Collage — Sarah Aiken

A collage extravaganza for making your own mythical creature using cut-outs of animals, people, plants, machines, objects, or anything that can be imagined!

Artist and choreographer Sarah Aiken will lead a gentle and exploratory workshop for kids and families looking at mythical creatures through collage and craft. Cut and paste to make Frankensteins of living and non-living things. 

From Abbotsford Convent With Love — Ana Rita Pires

Explore the Convent and create a letter for a loved one through writing and drawing, then share it with a wider audience. The work culminates as a small archive – a collection of letters. The lucky recipient takes home their letter of love.

As the workshop draws to a close, children arrange their works for viewing, grab a snack (supplied) and move around the galleries as the participants present their own Artist Talk and Tour. The celebration ends with kids taking home their tasty creations.  

These workshops are for children only.

Adults – sit back and let them cook!  We’ve got you covered; coffee provided. 

This project is funded by The City of Yarra.