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Join artist Vic Downey for a collective art-making workshop. Using multi-layering techniques; record and paint memories of your COVID-19 experience.
In this workshop, Vic will guide you to record and paint your experience and memories of the pandemic. Your individual piece will then be used to inspire a large group canvas that acts as a visual map, linking the group in a safe and connected collective artmaking process.
Vic Downey is best known for her colourful and eclectic paintings which convey her deep connection with plants, place, and people. Vic uses a combination of acrylic, watercolour, pen, and ink to build her artworks over multiple layers in a technique she has developed to convey a sense of depth and deeper meaning within the work. Vic is passionate about the role of art as a healing modality and uses creativity to connect and create a shared language with those that she works with.
**Created works will be exhibited, photographed, and digitised images uploaded to the Geelong Regional Libraries website.
The Creative Collective Memory Arts project is funded through the Libraries for Health and Wellbeing Program; an initiative of State Library Victoria (for the Library Board of Victoria) and Public Libraries Victoria under the banner of the Statewide Public Library Development Projects 2020 – 2023
| Mon, Jun 02 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Tue, Jun 03 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Wed, Jun 04 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Thu, Jun 05 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Fri, Jun 06 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
| Sat, Jun 07 | 9:00AM to 5:00PM |
| Sun, Jun 08 | 2:00PM to 5:00PM |
This busy and vibrant branch serves Geelong’s northern suburbs. Highlights of this branch include zoned areas for study, reading and children’s activities, bilingual picture books, LOTE (Languages other than English) magazines, a learning English collection, World DVDs and a parenting collection. The library has a large meeting room for community hire, a range of accessibility features and a dedicated makerspace enabling discovery and creativity. Regular Baby, Toddler, Inclusive and Preschool Story Time sessions are held here, as well as events and programs for adults taking place throughout the year.
The Geelong Regional Library Corporation acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin nation, and the Gulidjan and Gadubanud Peoples of the Maar nations as the Original Owners of the lands on which our library services operate. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and celebrate First Nations Peoples of this land as the custodians of learning, literacy, knowledge and story.
