Para Kore Painting: A whanau workshop on making art

IMPORTANT: Workshop is held at 10:30am - 11:30am.

Join Artist and Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Tessa Williams for our whanau focused creative workshop. For parents and their tamariki, come along to learn how to create unique pigments, paint, and creative tools from natural flora found in your backyard. Inspired by time spent in lockdown with her children, this workshop is intended as a creative, fun, and bonding experience for all whanau who attend.

Life is once again moving so fast, the nationwide level 4 lockdown, for most of us now, just a distant memory. But, for artist Tessa Williams, it will be an experience she never wants to forget, and one she believes in some ways we need more of.

"We were made to rest, we finally had the much needed time we never usually get with close family, we had to make do with whatever was already in our environment. A lot of us realised that was all we ever really needed.

As an artist, pushing myself to make with what I could find around my home, and then being able to make alongside my tamariki, it was a revelation. My practice will never be the same. I hope other parents with a desire to combine their artistic talents with their love of the natural world and their children will come along to the workshop ready to get a little messy and enjoy making with each other.”

Image: Tessa Williams, '#ItsNotAboutATie, 2021.