Join us at Chrissie Cotter Gallery during the Young Creatives exhibition for a unique workshop on recovering lost archives through the form of photographic storybooks. Transform photographs from your own personal archives or the Inner West Council’s Community History archives into captivating narratives by blending text and image. This workshop will encourage you to create meaningful visual legacies through an unconventional approach to documenting and reproducing memories.
For ages 16-24
You are encouraged to bring your own personal archives/images to this workshop
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Vedika Rampal is an emerging Indian-born artist whose post-disciplinary practice intuitively oscillates between image and image forms, using sculpture, textiles, photography and text to interrogate Western museological modalities enshrined in colonial optics. Drawing upon inherited memories, fictive imaginings and archival research, Rampal’s work reflects upon the duality of trauma and yearning, capture and resistance, loss and agency, innate to these histories, to suggest the simultaneity of counternarratives to imperial legacies. Her work has been shown in solo shows at Firstdraft Gallery, Dominik Mersch Gallery in Sydney and Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne. This year she was selected as part of the Hatched National Graduate Showcase at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art where she was awarded the prestigious Dr. Harold Schenberg Award. In 2023 Vedika was the sole recipient of the TWT Excellence Prize in Fine Arts at UNSW Galleries Annual Graduate Show, a highly commended finalist in the Olive Cotton Award at Tweed Regional Gallery and a finalist in the Fisher Ghost Prize at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Vedika has also been awarded the longest-standing painting prize at UNSW Art and Design, the Jenny Birt Award in 2022 and the Kudos Emerging Artist Award in 2021.
Explore resources in our catalogue on archival practices and Inner West Local History here.
ABOUT THE VENUE
CHRISSIE COTTER GALLERY has an accessible bathroom. There is a set of stairs inside the building and a lift for wheelchair access.
If you have any access or support requirements in order to participate fully, please let us know in the booking order form to ensure that we can arrange adjustments.
We may take photographs of the speakers and the audience at this event. Read here for more details.
