Slow Drawing Tour with Sienna van Rossum
5 Apr 2025
| Dates | Saturday 05 April |
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| Times | 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
| Cost | $10 |
| Booking | Please be sure to book via the link below |
| Age | Recommended for 12 years and over |
Explore Ipswich Art Gallery’s latest exhibitions in a Slow Drawing Tour to celebrate Slow Art Day.
Twenty-seven seconds. That's how long the average person spends looking at a work of art. Slow Art Day is a global initiative that shares a focus on slow-looking and its transformative power.
Participants will be guided through a series of mindful prompts – to look deeply, draw, and discuss five artworks currently on display. Slow drawing is a way to deepen one’s understanding and appreciation of art through careful observation. There are endless possibilities to uncover.
Drawing materials will be provided.
Sienna van Rossum
Sienna van Rossum is an artist and PhD candidate in Creative Art at Griffith University whose research focuses on the art of slow looking in our image-saturated culture. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art Honours Degree (Visual Art) in 2017 at VCA, University of Melbourne. Her paintings have been exhibited interstate in galleries such as Tiles Lewisham, Tweed Regional Gallery, Sarah Scout Presents and Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
Van Rossum was also a shortlisted finalist in the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Scholarship in 2019 and the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize in 2020. She is a recipient of the Terry Cutler Acquisitive Prize and the Fiona Myer Award. Her work has also been featured in the Art Collector. In 2024, she was the winner of the prestigious international Asia-Pacific Three Minute Thesis competition for her presentation on the importance of slow looking through creative practice.