“Our theme is ‘This is Us’ and the workshops are to paint and draw ourselves or our family or friends and Splinter will collect them all and the end results will be exhibited at KidsTown during the festival,” artist Lynne Hume said.
Splinter Contemporary Artists is a group of exhibiting artists based in the Goulburn Valley.
Splinter members use a variety of mediums including painting, ceramics, photography, textiles and mixed media.
The theme of ‘This is Us’ refers to self-portraiture and Splinter provides the art supplies for the workshop.
The next ‘This is Us’ workshop is at Mooroopna Education and Activity Centre on March 5 from 10am.
Splinter members have an exhibition with the same title showing at Kyabram Town Hall Gallery until the end of May.
The exhibition in Kyabram displays self-portraits of Splinter artists, sharing a part of themselves with the community in a contemporary manner.
“My portrait is a head and you can see inside it and it’s about me and COVID. I felt like I was locked up in a cage,” Ms Hume said.
“And even when I could get out, I still stayed at home and so I’ve represented that in my portrait.
“Other people have (depicted) themselves and how they relate to the world around them).”
Ms Hume said they were “always” looking for new members to join Splinter.
“You don’t have to have perfection ... you don’t have to be an artist to do it,” she said.
Splinter artists move beyond traditional art through innovation and the pursuit of ideas to create thought-provoking works in any media.
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