'A Set of New Skills' with Sarah Poulgrain
First Thursdays
3 October 2019
6.30–8.30pm
Join artist Sarah Poulgrain and collaborators for an extension of her project, A Set of New Skills at the IMA.
Through the project, Poulgrain prioritises skill-sharing as both process and outcome, inviting four other artists to work together to learn how to make welded chairs of their own design: Samantha Axiak, Angelica Roache-Wilson, Tyza Stewart, and Kate Woodcroft.
For this edition of First Thursdays join each of the participating artists for an evening of readings, discussions, skill-sharing, and sound performance, drawing on the collaborative nature of A Set of New Skills.
Poulgrain is interested in the potential for skill-sharing methodologies to form respectful relationships and create less hierarchical spaces for learning. You’re invited to come along and hear more about this approach to learning, sharing, and making.
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Sarah Poulgrain
Currently on display as part of the churchie national emerging art prize, Poulgrain’s A Set of New Skills: Weaving and Welding presents a pair of understated and functional objects—a grey woven and welded seat and a glass table—complemented by a book that documents the process of learning the skills required to make these objects. The objects are the fruitful results of knowledge and skill sharing acquired through one-on-one lessons with local artists, online research, and tutorials on weaving on a loom, natural dyeing, and welding techniques.
Sarah Poulgrain is a Brisbane-based artist whose practice considers the repercussions of post-work labour autonomy for artists. Poulgrain has shown at several ARIs across Australia (Outer Space, Boxcopy, Firstdraft, Metro Arts, Success, Visual Bulk, Bus Projects) and co-founded Wreckers Artspace with Hailey Atkins and Anya Swan. In early 2019 Poulgrain received an Australia Council Individual Project Grant to develop new work and has continued work on long-term Brisbane based projects.
Image courtesy of the artist.
