IAG Masterclass: Ink Painting with Zoe Porter
Zoe Porter, Umi (Artist Book), 2021. Ink, watercolour on paper, cover. Image Courtesy of the Artist.
31 Oct 2026
Zoe Porter, Umi (Artist Book), 2021. Ink, watercolour on paper, cover. Image Courtesy of the Artist.
| Dates | Saturday 31 October |
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| Times | 10:00 am - 3:00 pm |
| Cost | $85 per person. |
| Booking | Please be sure to book via the link below |
| Age | Recommended for ages 16+. Limited places. |
Experiment with inks to create your own concertina artist book with Zoe Porter!
Guided by artist Zoe Porter, you will explore a range of drawing techniques using inks to create your own concertina artist book. Your book could feature a narrative that blends both abstract mark-making and figurative work - whatever you are inspired to create!
Participants will leave the workshop with a resolved concertina book featuring a series of experimental drawing approaches using ink including fine line, wet into wet and wet on dry applications. Participants will develop a series of figurative/abstract drawings that connect across the book, developing a unique and playful approach to composition and imagery.
What to wear: Please wear closed-in shoes and workshop-friendly clothing.
What to bring: Lunch, a water bottle, and an apron.
Materials: All Materials are provided including inks, brushes, metal nibs and paper concertina books.
The workshop will include a 30 minute lunch break to bring or grab a meal and socialise with the other attendees.
Please meet at the Ipswich Art Workshop, in d'Arcy Doyle Place.
Portrait of Zoe Porter. Image Courtesy of the Artist.
Zoe Porter
Zoe Porter is a Meanjin based multidisciplinary artist working across the areas of drawing, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. Her work is largely process-based and playful, frequently depicting animal-human and plant-human hybrid forms reflecting both real and imaginary states, chaos and order. Much of her work presents the human form in a state of continual of flux or undergoing transformation, suggestive of the possibilities for other ways of being or existing.
Zoe has produced large scale wall works and murals including Pilgrim Yoga Studio/Fish Lane (2021) and Brisbane Street Art Festival (2021), QUT Art Museum (2019), Onespace Gallery (2019) and Brisbane Art Design (BAD) Festival (2019). She has also created performances for numerous galleries and festivals including Fish Lane Precinct (2023), Benalla Art Gallery, Vic (2021), Prinzessinen Garten, Berlin (2017) and the Brisbane Street Art Festival (2018). She has undertaken several international residencies including Burgundy, France (2006), Geidai University, Tokyo (2010) and Crane Arts, Philadelphia (US) (2012) and ARToba Artspace (Toba, Japan) (2019). She has exhibited in group exhibitions and most recently held solo exhibitions in Japan (2019), Brisbane (2023) at Onespace Gallery and Melbourne (2017), as well as receiving funding through Australia Council for the Arts. Zoe is represented in Meanjin/Brisbane by Onespace Gallery.
Where is the Ipswich Art Workshop?
The Art Workshop is located in d’Arcy Doyle Place in a separate building to the Ipswich Art Gallery. The closest entrance is via Limestone & Nicholas Streets. Located next to the Ipswich Community Gallery.