Workshop | Making your mark workshop with Francesca Contaldo | SaVĀge K'lub Closing d’Activation

Name: Workshop | Making your mark workshop with Francesca Contaldo | SaVĀge K'lub Closing d’Activation
Start: 2025-03-08T14:30:00+11:00
End: 2025-03-08T16:00:00+11:00
Location: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Schedule

Sat Mar 08 2025 at 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Canberra, CT

Location: Gallery 11, Worldwide (Level 1)
Free, bookings essential
Duration: 90 min
Join tattoo artist Francesca Contaldo in the SaVĀge K'lub to learn about traditional and contemporary mark making practices.
This workshop invites participants to explore Francesca’s mark making practice, bridging ancient traditions and contemporary expression. In this workshop, Francesca will share her extensive research and creative process, drawing on her use of tattoo, painting, and pottery to honour ancestral art forms.
Participants will design their own marks inspired by the patterns within the SaVĀge K’lub exhibition and gain a deeper understanding of mark making as a powerful tool for storytelling, identity, and connection to heritage. Through creative exploration, participants can begin to envision bodies as vessels for culture, where marks serve not only as decoration, but as a meaningful bridge between past, present, and future.
This workshop is suitable for people of all ages and abilities. No previous making experience is required.
Children must be accompanied by a participating adult.
All materials will be provided.
This program is part of the SaVĀge K'lub Closing d’Activation. See the full program for more workshops, talks and performances.
Image credits:
SaVĀge K’lub: Te Paepae Aora’i – Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled, installation view of Rosanna Raymond, Salvador Brown and Francesca Contaldo, Tatatau (un)convention, 2024, from the series Valley of the Dolls, mixed media. Courtesy of the SaVAge K'lub. Photograph: Kerrie Brewer.