Colour Walking Workshop
Facilitated by Sara Hartland-Rowe
Thursday, August 15, 6-9pm
Duration: 3 hours
The first hour of the workshop involves a colour walk. Starting in the Waterfowl park and then throughout the town of Sackville, participants will move from an organic environment to a manufactured one while keeping three questions in mind: what is the colour of our surroundings, do we feel different in different colour-environments, and what kinds of materials does colour come from? Along the way, participants will collect colour samples: vegetation, debris, found objects etc. Upon their return to the gallery, participants will use coloured paper (supplied) to experiment with some of Josef Albers’ brilliant exercises: vanishing boundaries, halation, simultaneous contrast, and films, veils and spots. They’ll then make small sculptures or collages based on their gathered materials, paper and sheets of translucent materials (supplied).The evening will conclude with a discussion of how colour itself can walk, and how the colour that is always around us lies in wait to guide our experience of place. About the facilitator
Sara Hartland-Rowe attended NSCAD (BFA 1990) before moving to Chicago for post-graduate work (MFA, UIC Chicago, 1993). She returned to Halifax in 2000 and has exhibited across Canada, and in the US, South America, and Europe. Her site specific installation Trees, Animals, and Things is on view at Struts Gallery from July 26 – September 12. Pre-registration required: email admin@strutsgallery.ca
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