DRIVEWAY: You can draw me getting run over by a car, if you want

In this workshop Grace and E will guide you through devising or adapting characters and text into a four panel comic strip.
About this Event

You can draw me getting run over by a car, if you want, speaks to the power ascribed to comics and their illustrators. Unafraid to hide from this power, two drawers (Grace Fuentealba and E.Salmon) unite to fight evil! Grace and E both found comics through members of their family. For Grace, it was through her abuelito’s Chilean comics, whereas for E it was through her brother’s MAD Magazine collection. Through their lives they’ve turned to comics to tell stories, and recently, as a way to find catharsis. This process is one of love and anger, which is of particular potency in a colony which disenfranchises and disempowers us. Through worldbuilding, what we can’t do in real life becomes possible on the page.

In this workshop Grace and E will guide you through devising or adapting characters and text into a four panel comic strip. After laughing, drawing and sharing stories together, we hope you feel inspired and empowered by comics. Open to all skill levels.

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Grace Fuentealba: In my art I reckon with what I hold. The things passed down to me by the eldest daughters in my family. The line of women who consecutively step out of my mouth when I speak. I wade in the shore when I make, feet planted in the inbetween. Contemplating the ocean beyond me, the one my family crossed when the small men gunned down Allende in office. In it, I see the pteropod, its shell being slowly etched away because humans have changed the chemistry of the ocean. The pteropod is being forced to disappear. I recognise the disappearance.

E. Salmon: My name is E and I am an artist and student of Nyikina and Celtic descent. I live and work on Wurundjeri land, and was raised in Naarm’s northern suburbs. I make string, weld steel, edit video, draw, read and write. I do this to complicate prescribed norms of identity, voice dissent, promote catharsis and undertake intergenerational healing. I have shown at KINGS Artist-run, Incinerator Gallery, 138 Gallery and Trocadero Projects, and have a BFA in Drawing and Printmaking from VCA.

Image:

[1]E. Salmon, Sketch for shame, pencil on paper, 2025

[2] Grace Fuentealba, Correr mija, etching, chin colle, 2023. (photo)