Drawing with Objects by Melissa Pierce Murray

By Melissa Pierce Murray

Frequently I explore ideas by arranging or assembling objects to make compositions or maquettes.

With this workshop I brought in sets of objects- steel, glass, wood and stone, and spoke of the qualities of each, how they were fashioned, found, or collected.

The black lazer cut shards of steel and the long splinters of wood were offcuts from larger lengths of flat metal bars and wooden planks.

Melissa P Murray artist

 

I collect the multicoloured pebbles while walking along beaches, and like to thinking of the geological and erosional processes that formed them.

I’ve recently been working with ice in my studio, and considered bringing ice cubes, but instead found clear glass ice cubes, square, smooth and transparent.

Glass and steel Melissa Murray 

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Teachers embarked on an exercise whereby they made marks on paper to have a conversation with a partner. This was a playful and fun exercise and teachers very much enjoyed both the process and outcomes.

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This was the second session in the series and an introduction to pattern, shape and texture with charcoal and graphite, and an opportunity for teachers to break down any preconceived ideas about what drawing is and who drawing processes is for.

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This was the third and final session in the series, and an opportunity to play with creative mark-making and explore context and placement as an introduction to larger scale drawing and concepts around installation art.

This was the third and final session in the series, and an opportunity to play with creative mark-making and explore context and placement as an introduction to larger scale drawing and concepts around installation art.

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